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September 30, 2006, 6:49 am PDT
 Quote From: marcia52 I'm working it out 1 step at a time. I have a mentor -- one of my support group members is 70+ years old and raised 5 kids -- so I'm able to gleam some stuff from her. I've done Dr. Phil's 21-day menu a few times and I've come to realize that it's really pretty bland ... she had the same problem too ... so she got a food mag that shows you how to prepare healthy meals.
I'm with you ... for me it's really hard. I just hit that place where I discovered that I don't have much variety in my life. I mean, I'm fine until I do menu planning & then WHAM!! So now, I'm working on expanding my breakfast meals. I'm collecting all sorts of menus from magazines and I am writing down the different things I can make. I got one that shows me how to make new breakfast stuff and then refrigerate the rest so I can eat it at a later date. Like my gym morning ... I can nuke it and have some extra time before I have to leave for the gym in the a.m.
Now I have to learn to make new foods and add them to my list of foods that I can prepare and eat. Once I get breakfast up to 21 different meals, then I'm going to tackle dinner. I'm writing my meals on 3x5 cards so I can simply select a meal .. then plan on eating left overs a couple of times ... including making TV dinners on those days I'm running all day and come home tired and ready to just binge.
What problems did you run into when you did menu planning? How many times have you done it? I made myself a weekly calendar and go over my wall calendar and put all my appointments on it and then sit down with another weekly form for my menu. Did you do anything like that? I used to make a list of recepies I would make for the week and go grocery shopping and doing all my meals, but I was eating stuff my kids and husband didn't have to eat all the time so I started making them other healthy dishes.
I got so sick of making food all the time(I run an in home daycare so I'm alway's making food) that I just stopped planning my meals and started to eat the same food as husband and kids, wich was healthy but.......just not what I was eating. It's so easy to fall of track and hard to get back on!
For the winter, I'll probably go back to eating more of what I used to eat, see, I love the outdoors and gone camiping all summer long, so that made it harder to eat all the right stuff!
If you have any good recepies that are easy to make, I would love to have some new ideas! I make great food, everybody love my cooking, but after a while it's alway's the same?! |
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