Project Friday Edition 3

Today is a no school day. Blizzard warnings abound and the roads are super icy. I was going to go grocery shopping, but instead, I'm staying in with my girl. So far we've played 2 hours of Just Dance 4 on Kinect and I think I'm skipping my cardio for the day.

Pretty awesome day off!

Aaaaand:

Nope, haven't forgotten about my Project Fridays. I pretty much took all the time my husband was at home off (because I could, and who wants to immerse themselves in projects when the love of their life is available to hang out with?!).

But I will say that I'm caught up, and up to date with my projects, but I do need to assign some more for this week.

Meal Planning.

Yup. That is my goal. I've always done meal plans because it's way easier to do one shop once a week, than be stressed out over what to make at 4:00pm and there is nothing in the house.

About 3-4 years ago I had 6 weeks planned out. I had a pre-made shopping list and every week I simply printed out my list, added on new items that I needed (soap, hair gel, etc) and went shopping.

Easy peasy.

The past couple weeks I've been working on cleaning out my freezers with meals and staying within my $100/week budget. I'll be doing that until I actually have the freezers bareboned and I can start over with soups and meals to freeze.

But what I really want to do is create another 6 week meal plan for when I'm done demystifying my freezers. Why don't I just use the ones I used 3-4 years ago? Simple. Those were less healthy than I like to eat now. I was working full time, and I needed fast meals.

Fast doesn't always mean unhealthy, but in my case, I didn't have the time to sort them out to either make them healthier or nix them completely. I needed to feed my family and never wanted to eat later than 6:00. However:

Now I have the time!

So my goal this week is to prepare a 6 week meal plan, including shopping lists for each week. The goal is to keep the meals low-cost and within a budget (not sure if I'm sticking with the $100/week or upping it slightly) as well as provide a relatively healthy plan.

I'm not all about brussel sprouts and soy. Actually, that's a bad example because I hate both those things. But if I have a high carb meal, the next day should be clean to help minimize the damage.

I'll share my plans when I'm done. I realize that my tastes aren't always other people's tastes, but my kids and husband love my cooking and that's good enough for me. Plus, I've given out a few of my recipes to my mom-in-law, and that is a huge compliment seeing as moms cook the best food.

Cheers to PROJECT FRIDAY!