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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here's what I did which has been a revelation and may work for you depending on how old your kids are.  At the end of last year, I got fed up with trying to menu plan healthy meals that I thought would be liked but never were.  So I bought a white board with the days of the week on it that sticks to my stainless fridge (but is easily removable) and told my (high school aged) kids that if they planned the next week's meals by Friday I would "approve" whatever is reasonable (healthy, time to make, etc.) on Saturday and then they needed to see what ingredients we needed from the grocery store and add them to our list by Saturday at 3pm.  So they either pick things they'd had before or research recipes and save them for me.  All I have to do is prepare the meal which I don't mind doing, especially because I don't get complaints.  Also, since everything is on the white board, I'm not repeatedly asked what's for dinner.

The only adjustment I've made is that there was some sibling squabbling over meal selection when one child planned the whole week and the other didn't get to plan any meals that week.  So I purchased a second white board and they seem to have worked out an alternating rotation between themselves.  [/quote]

Great idea PP! Will adopt this method. [/quote]

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