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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Weekly or less. We have a general plan that we will plan on cooking 3 times, eating leftovers 3 times (so we plan meals that will produce leftovers) and then going out or doing take out one night. Sometimes if we have a busy week socially we'll only cook twice. Sometimes we'll just do a super easy meal from the freezer that doesn't produce leftovers, and then go out twice. But that's our standard.

We rarely sit down and meal-plan for the whole week at once though. It's more like, my DH will say he wants to make something on Sunday (he loves cooking so making a big meal on Sunday is a leisure activity for him) and then I'll plan a Tuesday night meal based on what he's making. So if he's making chili and cornbread on Sunday, we'll do that for leftovers Monday, and then I'll do Cobb salads with grilled chicken for Tuesday/Wednesday because I'll figure we might be ready for something less heavy and rich by then (plus something like that will also become lunches for several days, so I want to counter program for dinner).

Other weeks we just play it by ear, taking turns throwing meals together, always with an eye towards leftovers. When I make baked pasta dishes, I almost always make double and freeze half so that we often have a baked ziti or some meatballs and red sauce just sitting in the freezer, and can pull them out for an easy dinner for 1 or 2 nights within the next month. I love doing that because I can cook for four nights in one swoop, and then we just need a quick salad (either bag salad from store or we'll throw together something quick with arugula and an easy dressing at home). If I do that twice a month, that's four days the next month where we won't have to cook or meal-plan, but also won't have to splurge on take out. Makes me feel so organized![/quote]

This is very similar to my approach. We generally plan to cook 3 nights and eat leftovers or stuff out of the pantry or freezer 3-4 nights (we do takeout 1-2x a month). We tend to waste food if we plan to cook from scratch more than that because I'm more excited to spend my time after work taking the kids to the park or pool. Having a well stocked freezer, both with homemade meals and some store bought stuff like ravioli, is useful. [/quote]

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