Sunday, January 08, 2012

on the menu

I periodically decide to do menu planning like my better-organized compatriots, and then promptly forget whatever I'd planned the moment I get to the grocery store. So, I will try it. Let's see.

Breakfasts: banana peanut-butter muffins or oatmeal; clementines

Lunches and snacks: salads (spinach, red onion, bell peppers, feta) with leftover salmon cakes or tofu and yogurt blue-cheese dressing; yogurt; clementines and apples; Special K protein bars

Dinners for the week:
  • Sunday: salmon patties (oh look, Hefk already put these on the food blog; good to know they work), roasted brussels sprouts and sweet potato oven fries
  • Monday: stirfry with baked tofu
  • Tuesday: dinner out post-knitting, probably pho
  • Wednesday: escarole and white bean soup (from Veg Times) and bread
  • Thursday: wow, how do people think this far ahead... I have writing group so probably quick leftovers or a quick bite out...
  • Friday: leftovers? oh wait, I think we are going to a potluck this night
  • Saturday: hahaha
Well, better than nothing, right? Here's to a better-planned new year.

3 comments:

Alissa said...

Funny - I didn't even realize that recipe was on the food blog already. I just had it bookmarked directly from Elise's page.

I think it's easier for me to plan that far ahead because I have way too much food in my house already. I have so much food in the pantry and the basement freezer that I pretty much just look at what's in there and then figure out what I can make with it. That's a different approach than planning ahead and then going to the store to get what you need. Not that I'm advocating the kind of food hoarding that goes on around here. :)

hefk said...

hooray and good job menu planning.

i like the sound of hahaha that you're having on Saturday. what time should i come by? I'll bring teeheehee.

Kelly said...

You are so funny! I overplan my menus and usually have tons of crap that's going soft/mushy/moldy in the fridge by the week's end so I have to come up with something stat so I can use it up before it rots. I've gotten better, though, and only plan through Thurs knowing there will be leftover and bit and bobs to eat up.