It’s a fresh new year – a great time to re-visit the fundamentals of feeding your family. If you’ve started the system before, check in on your lists and the system – is it working for your family? Do you need to make any changes? If you haven’t started the system, today’s a good day to start.
Table365’s Feeding Your Family System breaks down meal planning and prep into 5 easy steps. We’ll give you all the tools you need to get cooking!
1. Last week we gave you a worksheet to set the goals for feeding your family.
2. This week, start a list of your family’s favorite dishes. This will make creating your weekly menu and shopping list easier and faster. (Get the recipes for two of Sharon’s family favorites in this week’s Q&A).
Mapping Out Your Family Favorites
Do you ever stand at your kitchen counter with a pen and shopping list in hand, drawing a complete blank about what you’re going to cook the coming week? This is when getting take-out every night sounds like a fantastic (although expensive and unhealthy) idea, right? When this happens, an ongoing list of successful meals that you’ve cooked in the past is incredibly helpful.
It really doesn’t matter where you keep your list as long as it’s somewhere convenient for you. It can be a note on your phone; a document folder in your computer; a list in an application such as Evernote or Dropbox that can keep your information “in the cloud”; or, a dedicated spiral notebook kept somewhere in your kitchen.
Start by writing down all the meals you cook for a month and then it will become more of a habit to keep your list going.
We don’t know about you, but we feel so productive when making lists. In this case you won’t be crossing items off your list (sometimes the best part of keeping a list), but you’re creating an index that will be so useful in helping you feed your family.
Happy New Year!