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[quote=Anonymous]This thread is very helpful. Side note - if you are a myers-briggs nut like me, you'll easily see that how you "plan" meals is tied to your type.

Planning meals is a necessary evil for me, in order to keep the busy family of 6 running smoothly.  However, I hate being tied to a plan.  To give myself as much flexibility as I like, I try to focus on what will is the foundation of my planning:

mystery sale meat, veggie meal, italian/pasta, leftover night (usually is leftover mystery meat in form of quesadillas), chicken/fish, pizza Friday, and husband owns Sunday.

Mystery meat usually goes right into freezer, and I always have Trader Joe's Orange Chicken stocked in freezer too!

From there, I let the weekly schedule dictate what days I can really go all out and which are pull it together quick nights.

Here it is pulled together for this week:

M-quesadillas from last night's DH grilled steaks
T-lemon chicken (grill or baked)
W-lasagna made in crock pot with kale
Th-beef stir-fry from london broil on sale this week
F-inlaws from out of town, so I am NOT cooking. However, usu do homemade pizzas
Sat-leftover surprise
Sun? - not my problem!

We are heavy on beef this week, so the lasagna might be meatless. I keep ground beef in 1lb bags in freezer and also usu have a couple of italian blend pkgs that can be used for italian night - might be meatloaf, meatballs, ziti, etc. Sloppy joes fit here too.

Quesadillas are always on the plan. The kids love them. I always keep red peppers and onions around for this.  I even made veggie quesadillas with leftover roasted veggies one week, and they loved them. I make my own taco seasoning, so I just use that and they barely noticed the meat was missing.

DH often takes leftover meat for lunch, so last week I made a 4lb pork tenderloin that fed us twice and he had it the rest of the week for lunch.

I am now baking breads, so my next challenge is determining how to integrate a baking schedule into this plan.  Artisan breads in 5 shows you how to make the dough and keep it in the fridge all week. Just pull it out and bake as needed. That can really help with the budget too.

Hope this was helpful! It at least forced me to nail down this week's plan![/quote]

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