This had to change. I have too many other important things to do with my weekend.
The first step towards a better weekend has been using delicious.com to save my recipe links. Delicious allows me to tag each recipe with different categories, making it much easier to find the recipe later. If chicken is on sale and I feel like making soup, then I filter my links with 'chicken' and 'soup'. It's SO helpful!
I save all my links on delicious. Love it! Here's my page.
The next step is saving my menu plans. For so many years I've scribbled my notes on little scraps of paper that usually get lost before the week even begins. I've saved the last 5 weeks in a Word doc, but now I've decided to share my menu plan on my blog too. Will I do this each week? Probably not, but I'll try. Anyway, the hope is that I'll be able to return to these plans and repeat them. Sounds good, right?
I'll let you know about further improvements in this menu planning process as I discover them.
I usually cook our main meal for dinner. Breakfast and lunch are pretty simple around here -- they need to be.
This week we have home group on Monday night and C's birthday on Thursday.
Monday: Taco salad night at home group.
We're bringing tomatoes and sour cream. Love it when it's simple!
Tuesday: My work day. Thankfully I made a large dish of mac and cheese over the weekend. Leftovers are my friend.
Wednesday: Broccoli Quiche and fresh fruit
Thursday: Chloe's Birthday and her choice for dinner --
Hamburgers, french fries, and green beans. ( I hope the weather is nice. We're going to grill! )
Friday: Pizza.
Saturday: Creamy Chicken and wild rice soup
Sunday: It's party day! We'll have the whole family over to celebrate Chloe's birthday. She picked 'camping' as her theme this year. We'll be eating walking tacos for dinner, a campfire cake, and s'mores.
And since I've taken ZERO photos this week and I don't like posting without one, I'll share one of our C for her birthday week. Here's our baby girl in 2005. Precious, precious little one.
