So the Farmgirl Sisterhood entries on Knowing Your Food, Recipes, and Organic on a Budget aren't the best. Knowing your food, eating local, and going organic/unprocessed is great, but there's no need to be a busybody to other people about it. Compiling your family recipes is a sweet idea...if you have a family. And Organic on a Budget is more about shilling her baking mix than anything.
Let's see if we can keep this simple and efficient. According to legend Ethel Kennedy had a three week rotating meal plan. Let's keep the idea and do her one better.:
Requirements:
1 - Compile a notebook with 24 recipes for dinner type meals (we have salad every day for lunch & my husband is only home for dinner 4 nights a week)
- Make at least 75% of them Paleo/Primal (No grains/beans/processed carbs)
- Make at least 25% of them with at least six servings
2 - Using this notebook plan 6 weeks of menus
3 - Using the plan create six weeks of grocery lists.
4 - Rotate through the plan twice, for a total of twelve weeks
So far this has and has not been working for us. I tried setting up a 24 week meal plan only to find that when we went all organic it was too expensive and too complicated. So now I have a four week rotating meal plan consisting of 9 meals:
ReplyDelete- Homemade pizza
- Homemade nachos
- Buffalo stir-fry
- Meatloaf dinner
- Roast chicken (spiced 4 different ways)
- Moroccan style chicken soup
- Chicken and Rice soup
- Mulligatawny soup
- Farmhouse chowder
Based on that I came up with four different grocery lists (since we shop the co-op/farmer's market weekly) and have been rotating through. I'm completely my first rotation this week, two more and I say I will have earned that badge. From now on if I want to adjust my menu I only have to add in meals, the structure will be there.