Three Thanksgiving Dinner Menus to Consider
The winter holidays are always a busy time, and Thanksgiving seems to be the holiday that pushes everything into overdrive. For many families, Thanksgiving is the time when everyone gets together to eat, talk, watch football, and discuss the upcoming Christmas season. For some, Thanksgiving dinner is the biggest meal they will eat all year, and quite a few people have favorite foods and drinks made by mom or ...
Looking for weekly food menus? When it's time to go grocery shopping again, and you have no idea what to plan for meals for the coming week, shopping can be hit-or-miss and you wind up going to the store many times a week or, worse, eating out when it's not in the budget or nutritious to do so. To save you some time and trouble, take a look at the following meal ideas. There are vegetarian dishes, fresh salads, quick and ...
Truth be told, weekly menu planning often makes the difference between an organized, well-run house and, well, chaos.
Lest you think I exaggerate, let me assure you that I speak from experience, as a (new) homeschooling mom of four kids, married to a man who both works from home and loves good food. We have a busy family life, extracurricular activities, wonderful friends, pet rabbits and backyard chickens, and our days are blessedly full.
When I plan menus, life is good.
When I don't ...
This easy weekly menu planner has spaces for breakfast, lunch, snacks and dinner for each day of the week. The box for dinner is larger than the others, with room to note both the main dish and side dishes.
Still overwhelmed by the need to come up with 21 different meals? Here's an idea: print several blank weekly menu planner sheets to have on hand and jot down meal ideas as you think of them. Collect menu lists from magazines, TV shows ...
In an effort to get serious about my weekly dinner menus, I sat down with a blank menu and my cookbook, my laptop in front of me for researching ideas online.
The twenty-one blank squares for breakfast, lunch and dinner every day for the next three weeks stared back at me and my creativity and culinary knowledge seemed to disappear. This was more challenging -- and a bit more intimidating -- than I'd expected.
Now that I've done it for some time, I ...
