Organizing Your Weekly Menu

You have to eat, so you have to shop and you have to cook. It's part of your everyday life. The better organized you are in the kitchen the happier, healthier and hopefully less hungry you will be. Here are a few simple kitchen organizing tips I follow for the week. First of all plan your menu. What do you want to eat each week? Who will be eating and when? The more prepared you are the easier the preparations. Next go shopping in your refrigerator, pantry and freezer for staples you can use, spices and other ingredients. If you can use what you already have the less money you will spend. Look up recipes that call for those ingredients or check your own recipe folder for simple meals you know everybody likes. Ingredients you don't have should go on your weekly shopping list.
This is how I look at each week. Monday through Thursday is quick and Easy. Friday is Pizza or other delivery. Saturdays and Sundays we have more time to try new recipes or meals that take longer to prepare. We try to make enough on the weekend so we can have a leftovers on Monday. A simple salad is always nice to add on Monday's to make up for weekend fun.