Here’s a way to get out of that dinner slump, in which you find yourself serving up the same 7 meals on a weekly rotation and hearing complaints from the kids because they don’t like what’s for dinner. Create a recipe grab bag and solve those dinnertime blues. First, write down each meal you can think of on small, individual sheet of paper. Consider also writing down “new recipe” or “dinner out” as well on extra sheets of paper. Next, gather all slips of paper and place them into a bag or bowl. Recipe grab bag is complete. Now, each Sunday night, have family members take turns drawing a slip of paper from the bag and (ta-da!) the meals have been chosen for the week. I like to add a drum roll when the kids are drawing slips – give a touch more jazz to the event, like adding sprinkles to ice cream. Consider drawing only 5 meals out to leave days open for leftovers. Add new ideas to the grab bag over time and soon your dinner grab bag will be chock-a-buck full of ideas.
May, 2013
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What’s Amy eating?
Friday, May 10th, 2013Who says you can’t teach a dog – or a man – new tricks? My carnivorous male (a.k.a. the husband) graciously offered to make dinner tonight. So tonight, Amy’s eating whatever the husband is cooking and keeping all nutritional critiques to herself. Surprisingly, the carnivorous male did pretty well! I silently and surprisingly nodded my approval as I heard him muttering to himself in the kitchen, “okay, I have these sauteed beans for a protein, the salad and roasted sweet potatoes for a vegetable…..now I just need a fruit.” Not too shabby there, carnivorous male.
Tonight’s menu:
Sauteed black beans
Roasted sweet potatoes
Green salad
Fresh pineapple chunks and mandarin oranges