Good ideas here.

I’ve been married for 33 years now, so have a bit of experience at this thing called home-making. But still have a 15 year old daughter still at home (late in life baby!! And I love her sooooo much!!!)

Anyway….wanted to mention that I rarely “plan” menus for breakfast and lunch as we always have ‘on hand’ food for those meals–which rarely requires “planning” per se.

Make a list of the foods you like for breakfast: cold or hot cereal, home-prepped oatmeal “packets,” leftover pancakes or waffles to pop in the toaster (we make these on the weekend–and make a full recipe–so we DO have leftovers), store-bought poptarts & sausages for Tuesday when we have to be “out -the-door” early a.m., etc. keep these foods on hand.

Lunch is usually scrounging from the leftover stash in the fridge or making a sandwich (ham, turkey, tuna, pbj) or yogurt or cottage cheese and a piece of fruit–easy peasy!!! Keep these things stocked all the time, too.

But supper, I always plan for–I mean, write on a note-pad kept on the fridge door. Take note of any evening activities or day time (out-of-the-house) which might require special modifications to my routine–or “how much time do I have for making dinner”…..

And then work two days ahead (by that I mean getting out some meat from the freezer).

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Planning can be as easy or as complicated as you want it to be. Me? I put “chicken” or “beef” on the menu…and then because I’m home all day AND because I know what we like and have most ingredients always on hand…..I decide early in the day what to make for supper.

Also…make one or two days easy for you…..we have pizza EVERY Friday. Most of the time, home-made, but about once a month a frozen/store-bought, and occasionally a fresh one from the local restaurant for a treat.

Hope those ideas help, too!

Hugs from West Virginia….

Deb <