Wow, I've really bee slacking on updating here. Along with the regular family stuff and household duties I am honestly finding that menu planning is taking up a great deal of my time. I used to just plan dinner for the week. Now I am planning breakfast, lunch, dinner & snacks for the entire week. I am constantly searching for ideas online, flipping through cookbooks and magazines and putting together meals that I think that the whole family will enjoy with a new "test ingredient" thrown in here and there to make things interesting. Something else I have to consider these days is that my hubby is now on a carb-counting diet to help control his diabetes. I am onboard with his carb diet and it is great for the entire family yet it adds that much more stress to managing the menu just right. It all takes up a lot of time! But I know that his health... our family's health... is so worth the effort!! So as I was prepping lunch for the kids today I thought "There has got to be a better way!". I need a game plan.
The solution is quite simple. I reflected back to my years of running an in-home childcare when I created rotating weekly menus for the kids. I will adopt that method and create a 4-week menu for my family that can be rotated. This way things won't get boring and I can always have the option to substitute a different side dish... perhaps something that's in season. So this will be my new plan to work on these next few days. Wish me luck!
The solution is quite simple. I reflected back to my years of running an in-home childcare when I created rotating weekly menus for the kids. I will adopt that method and create a 4-week menu for my family that can be rotated. This way things won't get boring and I can always have the option to substitute a different side dish... perhaps something that's in season. So this will be my new plan to work on these next few days. Wish me luck!
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