the grocery list
I thought I'd spend a little time this week talking about food (a topic I usually leave to the food blogs). Particularly how to feed your family. I've realized over the years that I much prefer having a solid plan of action rather than opening the fridge at 5 PM trying to rustle up some dinner.
You can read about my approach to meal planning over on Design Mom today. You can even download my grocery list. It's a simple system that really works for me. You plan four meals a week, Monday through Thursday. (Friday is date night, and Saturdays we eat pizza during Movie Night.. Sundays are usually dinner with my extended family or friends and require their own shopping if we're hosting.) Because I buy different things at different stores, I have sections for 4 stores on my grocery list. The biggest section is our main grocery store (where we buy most of our packaged foods and cleaning items) and the other sections are Trader Joe's (we love their milk, their premade pizza dough and their healthy snacks), Costco (for fruit and some types of meat), and Henry's (where we buy most of our produce). If you frequent different stores, you can download this editable grocery list and type in the names of the stores you shop at.
We'll start with my approach to meal planning and later this week we'll talk about my favorite cookbooks (you can see a few in the pile above). And I'd love to hear about the things that work for you. How do you approach meal planning? How do you manage to eat dinner as a family despite busy schedules? Any tips for getting my 5 year old to start eating everything on her plate?
02.2.2011
Reader Comments (26)
I love both cookbooks by Myra Goodman http://www.amazon.com/Myra-Goodman/e/B001IU2O32/ref=sr_tc_2_0?qid=1297198176&sr=1-2-ent
and also like just about anything by Jamie Oliver....
Recently bought Harvest Eating Cookbook
http://www.amazon.com/Harvest-Eating-Cookbook-Seasonal-Ingredients/dp/0762437413/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1297198127&sr=8-1
and it is awesome too.....
Week just goes so much smoother when I know what I am cooking. Love your neatly designed sheet!
I do my shopping twice a week...major store on Saturday, other shops on Tuesday, mainly just to get us through our big Sunday meal and Monday. I was just thinking last night that I need a better shopping list then my scraps of paper & envelopes and here it is. Thank you for sharing!
To get my 5 year old to eat more dinner, we've started to reward him for simply trying it. When he tries it he gets to put a small toy (I rounded them up from around the house -- marbles would also work) into a jar. When the jar is full he gets to go on an outing with Mom or Dad. Makes dinner more of a positive experience. Turns out that he likes almost everything that we make and so he's been eating more dinner with less fuss.
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