I Love My Menu

Homemade mushroom pizza. Oh so good. Individual sized.

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I am going to post about the snow, but I must say. I love my new menu.

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No more dreaded "What's for dinner". No questions about what to put on the grocery list. It is so nice. The one thing I find is I keep remembering more dinners I forgot to put on the menus so we have even more exciting stuff to eat - also, I have found a lot of good ideas and recipes while reading blogs.
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Another huge bonus is there is absolutely no desire to skip the whole dinner process and order out, which is something we had a high tendency to do. Yum Yucky wrote about something we did all the time - you have a bunch of groceries in the house, but you still order out! Yep, that was us.
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I know it sounds completely anal retentive to have a whole year's worth of menus, but honestly? It seems to be working for us. I did have to tweak it a bit because somethings made awesome leftovers [um, beans? pork bbq? yeah, those!] and I know that we now have a trip out of town in March - things like that - but all the menus are in PDF form and I can change with a click.
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It has only been a week - but my pantry is getting stocked by sales for future meals and I see the one trip a week for fresh vegs and fruits to supplement.
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The past 9 days have looked like this:
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Thu: Ghoulash
Fri: Crockpot pulled pork sandwiches, coleslaw and corn on the cob
Sat: Leftovers
Sun: Tuna Casserole
Mon: Crockpot Beans and cornbread
Tue: Leftovers with rice and cornbread
Wed: Spaghetti, garlic bread and cucumber salad
Thu: Baked chicken, brown rice and green beans
Fri: Salmon Cakes, mac & cheese and peas
Sat: Homemade, individual pizzas [make your own] Movie night
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I tried to make Friday or Saturday nights something similar to what we would otherwise order out. I have the homemade pizzas, deli subs [think Subway], Chinese, Big Macs etc.
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Our menus/dinners may not be for everyone but they sure do work for us. Besides I had a fun time doing this.