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Musings on my plans falling apart...

February 12th, 2008 at 12:37 pm

So I've really been trying to stick to a plan our meals for the week, grocery shop for the specifics, cook on Sunday so it's all ready type deal. It's perfect for a number of reasons: meals are already prepped, helps us stay within our budget (obviously), keeps us from saying "Oh, we're too tired to cook. Let's eat out." Two weeks in a row, it's been botched, which is rather disheartening.

Last week, I made a load of stuffed shells on Friday and a chicken dish Sunday night, so all meals for the week were prepared. Monday morning, I came down with the stomach flu. Couldn't eat either the stuffed shells or the chicken thing all week due to personal issues with any food smelled or tasted during that yuckie period. Great. A TON of food wasted (although DH ate the chicken dish a couple of times). This week I made a roast which, in waiting for it to cool off, left it out on the counter overnight.

Will I ever get it right? Sigh. I feel like my planning wasted so much money when something "unplanned" came up. Now I've ruined a roast. Ahhh well, Rome wasn't built in a day.

4 Responses to “Musings on my plans falling apart...”

  1. Broken Arrow Says:
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    Sorry to hear that. For what it's worth, I accidentally left the leftovers that I was going to bring to lunch today on the kitchen counter overnight. So... I have to eat out for lunch today. Stick Out Tongue

  2. nance Says:
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    You are getting it right. Little setbacks happen, but your plan is a good one.

  3. ceejay74 Says:
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    I feel for you. My family's got the cooking-every-night thing down pat, but we can't seem to rein in our grocery/household spending. And we allow for a lot more than most households on this site! I really didn't want to get too strict about groceries, but if we can't stay within my really generous budget, I'm going to have to take a magnifying glass to those receipts and see where the leakage is. Even when we plan a weekly menu based on what we have and "only need to buy a couple ingredients," somehow we end up spending way more than I thought it was going to be!

    Don't give up and I won't either. There's some luck and some fine-tuning of habits to be done, but we'll figure it out eventually. :-)

  4. scfr Says:
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    Here's a tip that I learned the hard way: When you leave something out to cool down, set the timer! When the timer goes off, immediately put it in the fridge (or freezer). My DH used to tease me about this (and get a bit annoyed by the beeping timer) until the day he left a lovely pot of curry out overnight and had to dump the whole thing. Now he understands.

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