What About Menu Planning? Shannon: It’s interesting that you said that you were doing every pay period menu plans and now your doing weekly. I know personally I’m still struggling with that. I made the realization that I used to be one of those, ok you have pretty much set meals and I knew what they were in my head. I had never written them down and I knew what those ingredients were and I just kept those in the house, but then everyday it was oh, what are we gonna eat today, you know? We were talking about three meals and two snacks and so forth and I would keep all that in my head and I realized that that was just too much energy being drawn from my brain. So I started making menu plans, but I was writing them in my notebooks. Then I finally realized this year, ok I’m a little dense. I’ve been married for 16 years, my oldest daughter is 13, that maybe, you know, I should standardize those menus a little bit so that I’m not constantly making the same menus. Jennifer: Right Shannon: Then I can just kinda pull a menu out. You know, make them up, make out the shopping list for that and then that should be what our menu is. Jennifer: Great Shannon: I was like, duh. What I found interesting is that it was such a relief to me when I started doing more of that. I’m not all the way there yet, but that’s one less thing for me to have to think about and plan and use my energy on. I can just say, you know, okay let me look at the sheet and this is what we’re supposed to be having or okay I need to get groceries, this is the list for this period. Jennifer: Right
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