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A weekly menu plan is basically the same as your Basic Week Plan, but for food.  Usually dinners are the main sticking point in a family, but if you struggle with breakfast and/or lunch also, consider doing the same thing for each meal.  Look at your weekly schedule, and determine a basic type of meal for each day of the week.  If you consistently have movie nights on Thursdays, you could have pizza those nights.  Or on days when you know you’ll be out running errands you could assign crockpot dinners.  Maybe set aside one day a week to try a new recipe.  If a weekly “schedule” of menus seems too restrictive, try a monthly scale instead.  But don’t assign meal types to each day in a month, just divide the number of days up into meal types – 9 chicken dinners, 5 meatless, 6 pasta, etc.  This is to avoid getting into a same-food rut over the course of a week or month.  The ultimate goal is to facilitate meal planning whether you like to do it by season, month, week, or day.

Are you a written menu by the month kind of person or fly by the seat of your pants with whatever you can pull out of the pantry/refrigerator/freezer right before dinner?

If you’re interested in seeing other’s plans, OrgJunkie has hundreds of people link up every Monday.  With my weekly menus I also come back and update each week with the reality of what we did eat each day, whether we stayed on course, and reviewing recipes to see how they worked (or not).