(because I found that with a baby it is SO much easier for me to fix dinner in the morning while she sleeps) and find 5 meals that look good. I take into consideration what ingredients I already have on hand and try to find recipes that use a lot of what I already have in order to save money and use up our food. Then I make a list of all the ingredients I need and give it to David to go to the store. I tell him not to buy anything that is not on the list. He does a much better job of this than I would plus I HATE grocery shopping. Then I put a schedule on the fridge that says which recipe is on which day and the cookbook name and page #. Now, each morning, I just wake up, open up to the recipe of the day, and throw everything in the Crockpot. Also, since rice is pretty cheap and David likes it, I have been cooking rice in the rice cooker right before the meal is done and Voila!, we have dinner on the table around 6:00pm every night! Go me! Can you tell I am quite proud of myself? 
After we try the meal we rate it out of 5 stars, 5 being the best. I also take notes so I remember what to do the same or different next time.
6 comments:
I love that you rate the meals! looks like a good system ;)
You are awesome! That's a lot of planning.
Sounds good to me- I have that cookbook, except maybe smaller? I'm not sure, but I don't use it very often because it doesn't have pictures. I'm a visual learner, okay? :) I made my own system for this month, and it's worked out "okay". I need to tweak it a little bit- but I have the same problem with buying things I don't need and not sticking to my list exactly. Good job!
Wow, lindsey that is impressive!
This is impressive! I have been trying to do something like this and I never follow through with it for very long. One day I will find a system that works for me. This is a great idea!
Okay seriously tomorrow you are gonna have to teach me how because we are wasting sooooo much food!!
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