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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How can you not? I mean, how can you not without putting on weight, spending a ton, and/or having dinner take three times as long to make?

I plan out our meals on a weekly basis. Often, one will flow into the next -- so leftovers from one night's pulled pork will get used another day for pork tacos, quesadillas, pozole, etc. Or an uneaten salmon filet gets put into a quiche or crepe the next day.

I try to do a mix of crowd favorites and new ideas, and a mix of time/attention-intensive recipes and easier/quicker/set-and-forget stuff. Plus there's always pasta and breakfast-for-dinner if we run into a bind.

This just seems like basic adulting. It's not an exceptional skill.[/quote]

I don't meal plan specifically and have no problem going to the grocery store once a week.  I have plenty of staples on hand, and buy an assortment of proteins.  It's not hard.  I find rigid things like "taco Tuesday" boring because they quickly become repetitive.  I do love to cook, though, and spend a fair amount of time finding and trying new recipes.[/quote]

I did taco Tuesday and pizza friday for a year. Taco tuesday wasn't boring because there are so many types of tacos (fish, beef, chicken, black bean) and each of those has slightly different condiments. I also included quesadillas and burritos so it was really tex-mex Tuesday. Pizza friday got boring to me but we did a variety of home made, take out and frozen. After I'd been doing it for a full year, I mentioned something about Pizza friday to my teen daughter who was completely clueless. She hadn't noticed that we'd had pizza 52 weeks in a row. [/quote]

My kid likes fairly green bananas so I only buy 2 when I shop on Sundays.  I put them in her lunch on Mon and Tues.  Did it for her whole childhood.  I once mentioned it when she was in HS and she had no idea...[/quote]

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