Create (and stick to) a weekly/bi-weekly meal plan.
I've got a week all planned out and I'm trying to get together some more ideas so I can have two full weeks of totally different meals planned. As of right now our meal schedule seems to be working our fairly well. I made sure that it's vague enough (and we use a lot of the same proteins) where it's flexible. We've only gone out to eat (unplanned) once since we put this into effect so I think that's a start.
If anyone has any healthy kid friendly meal ideas that they can pass along, I'd love some recipes. One thing I do is cook a large amount of chicken (simmered down with tons of spices for Jason and I) and I use it in all kinds of foods. We make spicy chicken taco salads, breakfast tacos, ect. so it's not like we have to prepare an entire meal from scratch each day. I've had lots of friends tell me that they will make large portions of soup and even freeze them in single serving containers that are easy to take out and reheat during the week and that's a great idea...except that even in the middle of January it's too hot here to eat soup very often. Today we had the boys out in sleeveless shirts and shorts!!! I think I'm still going to try a soup every now and then.
Anyway, I've also been serving Jason and I less food at each meal. I don't really seem to even notice. Isn't that strange? I guess I'm just used to eating everything that's on my plate even though I'm satisfied with eating less, so yay!!!
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Hi Teela, my husband came across your new blog off your comment on ours. He was telling me all about this list you made this morning. So of course I had to come check it out.
ReplyDeleteI plan all my meals out 2 weeks in advance and write them on a dry erase board in the kitchen so I never here "what's for dinner?". It sure does make my days easier than trying to firguer out what I'm going to make at the last minute.