meal planning

I try to do that, but with my new working schedule, it's kind of hard since I work mostly nights. I love to cook though, so I love to plan it out.

We buy fresh vegetables twice a week and groceries are purchased once a month and most of the time, all the ingredients are available. Since my wife is housewife and a good cook, she plans preparations on the very day and I do not think she writes down the plan. The plan is for the day. Sometimes, guests mostly relatives arrive and the plan changes and there will be two or 3 more dishes including a sweet dish to mark respect for the visitors.

I wish I had the foresight to plan my meals for 2 weeks at a time. The problem is that I can't think of that many different meals in one sitting. My boyfriend and I will do a major grocery shopping trip about once every two weeks. Then we just kinda work with the staples that we bought and then pick up a few things we might find we need while we are on the way home from work or something. Since we eat a lot of fresh veggies, I also don't buy too many of those on our big shopping trips. This helps keep things interesting because if something looks particularly good at the store one day, I can just add that to our plans and create a bit more variety. I like your idea though and like the idea that things might be a bit more easy if I really plan a bunch of meals that I have the ingredients on hand for. This way when I get home, I know exactly what we have to choose from for dinner.

We usually shop once a week. I take stock of what we have in the freezer and pantry. Make a menu for the week and then write out the grocery list for that week. I like having it all planned out. Then there is one less thing to stress over every day.

yes we plan our meals every 2 weeks and make a list from that