menu planning revisited

I really was in the habit of menu planning, probably till I got bronchitis - and I hadn't gotten back to it. Getting out cookbooks, looking through the recipe box, trying to get a balance through the week - I never minded it, but it's so time-consuming.  Enter Leila, whose blog, Like Mother, Like Daughter, was recommended to me by Kathryn - and boy, now I can see a light at the end of the tunnel!

It's over on the right side of her blog, called Happy Home: Food Organization - worksheets with detail on how to plan your menus!  And how sensible!  I made a list of meals which I regularly make - some more often than others, and came up with thirty five, all quite basic, and good and familiar things. And just having written them down clarified something for me -  they were all right in the back of my mind at the supermarket, and in case I saw something on sale I knew the corresponding recipe would come to my mind.

I think I can find more menus to add to the list, but I don't need to do everything she suggests - there are only two of us, and my situation isn't drastic by any means. I just needed some sensible direction.  Knowing that I have over a month's worth (and I left out summer things like pasta salad, because it's winter now) of options - and all familiar stuff - is such a relief.  Hallelujah!