I have a new project of Recipe Organization. Every week I am left with nothing to fix for suppers and feel overwhelmed with the prospect of thinking about what I should cook when I go to the store. The results of this have been bad: rather than meal planning, I simply buy every ingredient I could possibly need to make any meal that I could want!
This weekend I decided to try to think of a solution: I created an Excel file and started to think of all of the recipes I know that we love. Then, I write down the basic ingredients so that by copying and pasting the spreadsheet onto my grocery list, I can quickly and easily create a meal plan for the week. We really do not eat very many "meals" because if I make something, we have so many leftovers, but I think that it will make things easier for me. Another plus would be that I can examine what we eat and hopefully get a better variety of food in our diets.
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My organization suggestion would be to ensure that meatloaf is on the list!
I need to do something like this. Planning meals in my house is a little tricky because my husband doesn't eat leftovers (except for roast, or chili). -Charlene
Oh, Abbie, I love to think about topics like this! My system here is very casual though, and involves very simple meals and lots of leftovers! I hate wasting food and with only two people here, when I buy and cook things, I do not mind eating them day after day. I realize most people don't want to eat like that, however!
I have a tough time with this as well. I get recipe ideas from so many places - Pinterest, blogs, magazines, cookbooks - that it's hard to organize it into any useful system. I do have a binder where I put things that we have had a number of times and really like, just so I can always find those. That doesn't help at all with cookbooks or with random pages I tear out of magazines, but it's the best I've come up with at this point.
i use software called "The Living Cookbook" and it's pretty snazzy. :) if i had more time, or if jeremy enjoyed cooking, it would get a lot more use...but for now it's hanging out waiting for me to graduate in august. There's meal planning, a way for you to keep track of what's in your pantry & build a grocery list based on the recipes you've picked...there's also a way to pick ingredients & search for a recipe you can make with what you have on hand. lots of neat features! I think i paid around 30$ for it, and have been in the process of logging my recipes on there. (it comes with quite a few, but you can add your own). It estimates calories too, if you are watching that sort of thing.
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