Meal Planning

[omly]

In an effort to further empty the pantry, I sat down to do some meal planning:

Sat: split pea soup w/ cranberry orange nut bread for dessert
Sun: beef barley stew (yay for crockpot meals, so that we can eat as soon as we get home from missamay's wedding)
Mon: sesame noodles
Tues: chicken with green bean & almond rice pilaf
Wed: garlic oyster chicken with snow peas and brown rice
Thurs: paella
Fri: who knows! probably leftovers

Do you do this for the week? Or do you tend to plan your meals day to day? I feel like cooking for a crew makes it a lot easier to do some planning, but I know when I am the only one home for several days I just tend to make whatever occurs to me that day.

Comments

[pinstripers16.livejournal.com]

If I'm cooking just for myself I don't plan at all. I eat whatever's around, or if I'm not too lazy I'll go to Shop Rite and buy something fun. When I'm cooking for a group (like, if I'm having Shabbos guests) I plan the meals well in advance. But that's mostly b/c it's a lot of shopping and cooking to do for 2 meals, so I have to plan that out.

Also, did you get the house?