Need help creating a weekly, supper, menu plan

Senior Member Joined: Apr 22 2010 Posts: 118

I'm really getting fed up breaking my head every day with "what should I make for supper tonight???"

So I was thinking of making a weekly plan and your help would be greatly appreciated!

I'm starting but need you to finish it up for me and making it a balanced meal. (I find the side dishes the hardest.) As you can see I'm really not experienced!! Embarassed

Sunday - chicken bottoms
Monday - ?
Tuesday - ?
Wednesday - Milchigs or Fish
Thursday - crock-pot

Thanks so much!

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Posted: Wed, Aug 18 2010, 4:40 pm Post subject:

I would recommend a rotation of a few weeks (we do four), just so you dont get bored with the same thing. Also, give yourself permission to change things around if you have a desire for something else, this is just a suggestion for yourself to fall back on. If you feel boxed in my it, you will abandon it.

I can email you my sample list and you can glean from that. Let me know if you want
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I made diff recipes every week but to make my shopping easier

but always includes the following once a week we have one of each:
cutlets (shnitzel, sesamee chicken, wraps, chicken salad)
chicken bottoms (all diff recipes)
fish (salmon, sole, tilapia)
ground meat (meetballs, hamburgers, stuffed peppers)
milchigs (lasanga, manicotti, eggplant parmesan, homeade pizza, ziti)

and always do a 3 nights a wk lettuce salad, 1 night a cabbage salad, and one night a spinach salad.

and for a side I usually do rice, orzo, couscous, vegi lo mein, pototoe chips, hash browns, brown rice, garlic bread, cheese latkes.....and so on

Executive Member Joined: Nov 14 2009 Posts: 360

to make ur life easier you could have a nightly theme. Monday nights is ground beef, tuesday is chicken on the bone, wed is dairy.... can make life much easier

Posted: Wed, Aug 18 2010, 5:03 pm Post subject:

Ive gotten 3 people who have asked me for the menu. it's in excel form, so if you want it, PM me your email address.

Please feel free to take what you want from it. You can ignore store names/cat items, anything you wouldnt use. Make it your own

I agree with Ima2NYM_LTR about having a rotation of a few weeks.
If you want a set type of dinner, but a large variety of stuff, you can do something like

chicken bottoms one day, chicken cutlets the next, ground meat, dairy or fish, dark chicken cutlets. you can make thursday crockpot dinner with one of those items.

For 5 different side dishes for the days of the week, you can use white rice, potato, brown rice, sweet potato, pasta or farfel.

For veggies, you can do a variety of cooked veggies, raw vegetable salad, and soups.

I am sure I have at least 4 different recipes for each variety of protein, starch and veggie.
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