Comments on: Weekly Meal Plan

By: KristenM

KristenM — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:26:46 +0000

Meg — There’s always this coming Saturday, isn’t there?

By: Meg

Meg — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 05:27:06 +0000

I have been so stuck the last two weeks with our menu planning… and it’s making me feel so very lazy! I too sit down with my cookbooks and plan Saturday night – I think it’s because we’ve been gone that last two weekends, and I haven’t had my “happy” time!

Meg

By: KristenM

KristenM — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 02:57:54 +0000

Elizabeth — Oh, I hardly every USE recipes. I just look at them to get inspired! It’s actually the hardest part about posting recipes to this site to me; I’m always struggling to translate the amount of ingredients I add into measurable, repeatable quantities.

TrailGrrl — Whatever inspires us! That’s usually banana, berries, sometimes pineapple, kale, you name it. Check out the post on smoothies I linked to in this post to find out more ideas.

By: Elizabeth Barrette

Elizabeth Barrette — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 02:50:46 +0000

I think anything that stifles creativity tends to cause problems. So, look for a way to revive that. Why not try a week WITHOUT recipes?

I often cook without recipes, by looking at what we have in the freezer or cabinets. I plan ahead the meals for the nights when all three housemates will be home, or we have guests coming. Often I pick a main meat or vegetable and then think what will go well with that. So I might put a roast into the crock pot, then look around for vegetables — do we have potatoes, carrots, celery, onions, mushrooms, garlic, etc.? — and add those.

I make cobblers by cooking a fruit filling, adding some kind of spice, then a basic crumble topping. This weekend I happened to have a couple Golden Delicious apples and some little Granny Smiths. So I bought a bag of caramel candies and made a caramel-apple cobbler. Big hit. The main dish that night was venison stew with hominy.

Elizabeth Barrette

By: TrailGrrl

TrailGrrl — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 22:44:40 +0000

What’s in the coconut milk smoothie besides coconut milk?

TrailGrrl

By: KristenM

KristenM — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:53:32 +0000

Amanda — I do have bookmarked recipes. But not as many as you’d think! I’m fairly creative when it comes to cooking and mostly look at recipes for ideas. I don’t have a slew of cookbooks, but the ones I do have are fairly inspiring. Plus I enjoy curling up in my living room chair, feeling leisurely. I just don’t feel the same sitting in front of my computer.

By: Amanda

Amanda — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 11:04:53 +0000

I menu plan every Saturday morning Sometimes I feel like I’m in a rut, but planning in front of the computer isn’t all that bad. You have bookmarked recipes don’t you? Who says your whole menu has to be planned out from your cookbooks I’m sure you’ve found tons of recipes on line you want to try. So change it up a bit, plan from your bookmarks instead!

Amanda