3 ladybugs Posted September 27, 2017 Share Posted September 27, 2017 (edited) Good morning Flyminds! Welcome to the Flylady support thread. To find out what Flylady is: http://www.flylady.net/ You can also find people on YouTube if you search for it. Please join in on the fun! Today is day 27 of our 31 baby steps! Yay!! :hurray: :hurray: :driving: Day 1 - Shine your kitchen sink!! Day 2 - Dress to shoes! Day 3 - Keeping up the good work! Day 4 - Write things down! Day 5 - Write down what you hear Day 6 - Hot spots! Day 7 - Pick out your clothes Day 8 - Get a ring binder and put paper in it! Day 9 - Declutter a few minutes at a time Day 10 - You can do anything in 15 minutes!! Day 11 - Add an inspiration page to the control journal! Day 12 - Delete emails Day 13 - Find a mission and do it! Day 14 - Use a calendar Day 15 - Make your bed Day 17 - Set a bedtime and stick with it. Day 18 - Learn the 11 commandments of Flying! Day 19 - Read testimonials Day 20 - Include laundry in your routines! Day 21 - Check out Ask Flylady or adding to the control journal?? Day 22 - Where is your control journal? Day 23 - Set your afternoon routine Day 24 - Swish and swipe Day 25 - Learn how the routines developed Day 26 - look at the bottom of any Flylady email Today we are going to... Day 27 - What’s for dinner? - http://www.flylady.net/d/getting-started/31-beginner-babysteps/day-27/ This is one of my weakest areas. I have belonged to meal planning services for YEARS. I like cooking too. I currently belong to a meal planning service. However I am starting to realize that all the meal planning services do, is give me an out. I still spend hours going through recipes and planning grocery lists. How many stores do you go to? I go to 3, sometimes more! I am thinking what I really need to do is plan 3 months in advance. We are in fall now. Use fall produce and such and meal plan on that. I think my family needs 5 meals a week. Honestly between the occasional “Ack! How am I going to cook today?†days, and the celebrations that come every so often, and the “We have to eat left overs†nights that is how many meals I currently need. So when I think of it that way I am really only looking at 60 meals a season that I need to figure out. Hmm… that doesn’t sound that bad. Then I can rotate through the meals every year and my family wouldn’t become tired of one thing or another. Morning Routine Get up and make your bed get dressed to lace-up shoes, hair, face Swish and Swipe your bathroom Recognize negative voices and change them Reboot your laundry What’s for dinner? Put out your Hot Spots for two minutes Five-minute Room Rescue (pick a room). Set your timer and go! Spend 15 Minutes decluttering each day. You can’t organize clutter! Look at your Control Journal. Your Post-It Notes remind you Read Your FlyLady Emails as a reward for doing your morning routine. Afternoon Routine Eat lunch and drink your water Start Dinner remember the side dishes Before-Bed Routine Keep your sink shining Lay out your clothes for tomorrow Put in a load of laundry Check calendar for tomorrow’s dinner! Pull out of freezer. Put out your Hot Spot. Look at your Control Journal check list. Time for bed; consider yourself tucked in! Need more inspiration? https://youtu.be/bviWQdLGcM0 So how do you meal plan? Edited September 27, 2017 by 3 ladybugs 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3 ladybugs Posted September 27, 2017 Author Share Posted September 27, 2017 (edited) Okay, I thought more about this yesterday and I have decided that the best way to make my rotating seasonal meal plan is to come up with 15 meal categories and then I would only need to come up with 4 meals for each category. So here are my 15 categories. :D Instant pot Seafood Chicken Pasta Ground beef Stir Fry Mexican Italian Deep Fried Soup Special Occasion Fun Ideas Cassarole Grilling Meatless I should say that we have a grill (Big Green Egg) that we can use year round. We also recently started using a deep fryer for occasional meals. When you have meal plan like this, we are talking 4 meals in each category over 3 months. Once a month (about) of deep frying will not kill us. I will let you know when I am able to move beyond this point. ;) Hopefully today I will have a bit of time, but first I need to do my routines! I just realized I don't have a category for pork. DH will not be happy! Hmm... Edited September 27, 2017 by 3 ladybugs 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean in Newcastle Posted September 27, 2017 Share Posted September 27, 2017 (edited) My needs are a bit different when it comes to meal planning. Making monthly lists didn't work. What works best for me is to pin recipes on Pinterest. I have a "recipes to cook" board where I pin things that look interesting. If I am in a rut with my cooking,I look there for ideas. If I make a recipe and we all like it then I transfer the recipe to another board called "recipes I tried ". If I am running short on time and need a tried and true recipe, then I look on my "recipes I tried " board. Because of smartphones I can do this even in the grocery store especially if I need to check to see what ingredients I need to buy. Some of my favorite recipes on my "recipes I tried " board have been memorized now. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Edited September 27, 2017 by Jean in Newcastle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3 ladybugs Posted September 27, 2017 Author Share Posted September 27, 2017 Cool! I am glad you found something that works for you! I love hearing of new ideas! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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