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[quote=Anonymous]It takes a little time, but you can get all the work done and then it's easy to keep up with.  I have gone through my cook books and made a note of what recipes I want to try and put it into a list.  You could also just dog ear the pages, but I find it easier to have a list to glance at and pick from.

I also make my menus in excel and put the name of the recipe, cookbook and page number plus what ever non-staple items I need for the meal.  At the end of the week I list all the non-staple/perishable items I need from the store to make that week's food.  I make it for a full month, sometimes two. Then I save it.  I can repeat the menu two months later and now that I've done it for the previous year, I can just pull up the old menus and easily write out what I need without having to back to the cook books and make up my menus.  I can add in new recipes as I come across them, but most of the work is done.  I also try to develop a meal patter for each week.  In colder months I try to make a big soup or stew on Sundays that will give me leftovers for the week.  On Tuesdays I try to make a big slow cooker meal because that also gives me leftovers.  Then Mondays and Thursdays I can do leftover meals.  I switch it up here and there and it doesn't feel routine, it just helps with my meal planning to say I need a soup and a slow cooker dish each week.

So it's more effort up front, but if you are able to do it, it will make things much easier in the long run.[/quote]

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