[knitlove]

I only have two littles ( who can't really cook there own thing yet, and are used to my draconian rules about food only being in the kitchen/ dining room) but oh yes this is so so hard!

I meal plan on Sunday and will ask for input at that point. I will generally take what ever they suggest and out it on the menu. Most often no one has any ideas. When they complain about a meal latter in the week I will point back to the no ideas when I was planning. I will start a list mid week if they come up with things that they wish we were having. Dh neaver has any option on food, he will eat and appreciate what ever I make, which is nice but also madening at times.

One I the meal planning things I looked at ( it was a free ' meal planning boot camp' most of it was fairly useless make a list if the food you have plans to use it up bla bla the normal) said that most people only have about 12 to 24 meals they make. It suggested sitting down and writing them all down. We eat fairly sesionaly so I know I will need to think about the summer things we eating differently. But it was helpful to think back over the past few weeks and write down what we have been eating. And to know that it is is normal to east the same thing every few weeks.

I also use yummly when I am sick if cooking the same thing and want something new. It is a serch function for recipes. I love that you can filter them so that everything I get is gluten, dairy and soy free and also doesn't have pumpkin or butter nut squash ( for the most part, occasionally some things slip though but generally it is quite amazing). So I can do things like serch for cheese broccoli casserole and come up with vegen options. You can also sort by cooking method ( roasting, crockpot, prusher cooker)and calories content. I also love that I can put random thing in the serch function when I am brain dead and meal planning, things like ' fast dinner' or ' pot luck'. It has really helped me when I am completely brain dead, and I have discovered some recipes that are now in our normal rotation.

Meal planing is the main way I anchor my week, it is something that I put as a priority over planning out school ( I don't think this is necessary best) because with out it everything is horrable. I keep trying to come up with ways to spread out the brain power of the planning, but thus far with out much luck.

I am toying with trying to make up longer term meal plans and doing more mail order food things, like butcher box and amizon, but that a far off dream as of yet.

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