Feature Friday – menu planning
Friday, September 16th, 2011Feature Friday is an occasional highlight of something that works in my home/ life.
I love menu planning.
It saves me such a lot of time and helps us all to eat healthier and shop better for groceries.
Here is my favourite little magnetic menu planning board (South Africans, I got it for R30 at Mega Mica about 3 years ago and it’s not actually intended for menu planning – I think it’s for kids’ homework).
I start off by cleaning the whole thing.
I then check my freezer and see if there’s anything I want to use up or if there are freezer meals that need eating.
Add those to the board.
Then I make sure we don’t eat any one carb two nights in a row (I like to switch things every night).
I only plan for Mon – Fri and on Saturdays and Sundays we fly by the seat of our pants.
Not really, I just felt like saying that.
We usually use up any leftovers or I’ll do the quickest thing which is a pasta.

Notice our meals are on top and the babies’ meals are on the bottom of the squares.
The babies eat what we had for supper the previous night since they eat at 5 pm and I’m not even home from work then. Except when we have spicy meals like curries.
And that’s it.
Easy-peasy menu planning.
I don’t consult a lot of recipe books except when I’m uninspired which is fairly rare because I do love food.
I have set myself a little goal this year though; I’m to try two new meals every month. Of course, all these new things are always cooked on the weekends which is the only time I have more than 30 minutes to spend in the kitchen.
Do you menu plan?
Do you cook the same things or do you like trying new recipes?
P.S. Are you joining me for Spring into Organising?
























