... so it looks like tomorrow is fruit for breakfast and oriental for dinner. Hmmm... what fruit do we have? We have fresh strawberries, but I was really hoping to make strawberry spinach salad with them. Well, maybe (if I actually get up and get myself going in time) I could make a fruit smoothie! That would be good! We have frozen strawberries and blueberries. Nah, too time consuming. Ummm... Okay, now I have to go look and see what fruit we actually have so I can decide what I want for breakfast. It would be so much easier if I just ate a packet of oatmeal. But the schedule says fruit, so fruit it is.Oh, look! We have grapefruit that I forgot about and need to eat soon before they go bad! Now I've got one on the counter in a bowl, ready to be cut and eaten for breakfast tomorrow! Yippee! Ellie can have the remainder of her fruit cocktail in the fridge and we will be good to go! Quick, easy, and delicious.
We'll have stir fry for dinner. That's easy. Everything else on the list takes more work than just dumping some frozen vegetables into the wok and frying them up. Plus it guarantees me another serving of vegetables. I'll add in a cup of pineapple, too, and have an additional serving of fruit. That will be good.
Tuesday it looks like toast for breakfast and breaded fish for dinner. Another Costco frozen quickie. I don't usually like fish, but we'll see how I do with the breaded cod. Leif says it's good with balsamic vinegar, so I will give it a try.
Well, that's a good start, so we'll see if I can't just plan out the whole week's worth of menus to simplify the rest of the week. I ought to make a habit of planning out meals again, just to make sure I am getting a good balance and think through what we're having for dinner instead of just making the first quick thing that comes to mind. So this week we'll have...
Monday - Stir fry (with added peas and pineapple)
Tuesday - Breaded cod and broccoli
Wednesday - Vinegar Grilled Chicken and Spinach Craisin salad
Thursday - Spaghetti and green beans
Friday - Enchiladas (I think I have some already frozen) and corn?
I'll buy groceries at Costco on Thursday, so we'll see what fruits and vegetables I can pick up then for next week.
2 comments:
Where did you get the meal plan program? Something you developed for yourself to stick within your calorie goals, or something you got from a book or article? I'm thinking I would be pretty hungry on that plan, but maybe not.
I got the idea from my friend Dana who made one for her family. I just put in the things that we usually eat for dinner instead. The breakfast/lunch/snacks portion is really for Ellie, so that I feed her a more varied diet. But I usually eat a pretty small breakfast, then a fairly small lunch, about two snacks in the afternoon, and then dinner. So it's a good guideline for me, too. Especially for dinner planning.
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