If I’m avoiding preparing foods during ‘working hours’(more about that here) I need to have meals that build on each other so I’m not cooking an entire meal every night, while also changing the leftovers enough so that they’re not boring. Because I don’t love washing dishes (our dishwasher isn’t very effective) I’m keeping that in mind too!
Time:
Meal planning and grocery list with ‘help’ and interruptions: 30 minutes (Tip: I just think of what makes up protein/carb/fat/fruit or veggie)
Grocery shopping with kids, doing other errands as well: 2.5 hours
Soaking wheat for tomorrow’s bread/biscuits: 20 minutes including clean up time.
Breakfasts:
Smoothies (great for on the run meals!)
Eggs
Biscuits with eggs
Soaked oats or 7-grain cereal
Sausage with fruit
Lunches:
Chicken Salad
Egg Salad
Squash with meat
Sandwiches
Crispy Almonds
Date Nut Balls
Salad
Fruit
Dinners:
Fried Chicken on Salad, homemade ranch
Salmon Patties with Peas
Waffles, eggs, and fruit spread
Pizza topped with homemade sausage, salad
Tacos
Stir Fried Rice with beef
Burgers (with company), salad, Lemon mousse from Nourishing Traditions
Saturday Meal Prep:
Look at what wheat needs to be soaked- two loaves of bread for sandwiches (and two loaves for a friend), biscuits, soaked tortillas.
Edited to add all parts of this series: Continue below
Traditional Food in Real Lives- How can this be done around the work schedule?
*Grocery Shopping and Menu Planning
Weekend Meal Prep
Monday
Tuesday and Wednesday
Thursday and Friday- the home stretch
Reflections on this week and how it impacts me as a stay at home mom, and adjustments I’d make if I did work outside the home
One problem of cooking is that people would probably loose the interest of learning the craft of cooking because of hectic schedule. For a mom cooking kids snacks is very bothering sometimes so thats why they have to find alternatives to have a less consuming time in cooking for those. And i find all the food listed here appropriate and convenient.
Great post – it just takes some forethought and planning to have delicious and nutritious meals available!
Hi,
Is the help for the meal planning coming from the kids? Do you get them to choose some of their own recipes? I find this helps in getting them more interested in their meals.
They love to help- they're 1 and 3 and usually help by coloring on my menu
That's a great idea for when they're older, though!
I love to have breakfast for dinner — those waffles sound really good.
so this is exactly how brainless I am, midway through reading your post I accidentally dropped my computer mouse and shut the internet explorer by mistake and I could not locate your article once again right up until 3 days afterwards to finish reading through from the point i stopped at mainly because I did not remember how I linked here to begin with ahaha anyhow it was worth the delay..regards