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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is my first week trying to plan our meals and it is a lot harder than I thought. Kudos to you men and women who do this on a regular.

Do you use a spreadsheet or planner? I want to be sure that I'm not replicating the same meal too often and that I'm shopping for what's on sale but its time consuming! Please tell me it gets easier and faster[/quote]

It will get easier as you go along.  I use, umm, the notepad app on my phone  :oops: I'm not THAT organized!
I don't really worry about sales - I buy/freeze most of our meat from the summer farmers market.  If I'm at the store, and see that chicken, or pork chops, or whatever, are on sale I'll grab some and either do a last minute substitution, or just freeze it for another week.  Fruits and veggies are pretty flexible.  Stock stuff (pasta, canned tomatoes) I buy whenever they ARE on sale, since they'll last til I need them.
I meal plan (in response to the nasty poster) b/c I can't stand running to the store at the end of the day for just a few things, and I abhor wasting food.  So buying random things and then trying to make meals out of them, doesn't work for me.  most of my prep work is done on weekends or the night before, so I actually have to have a plan.  Ie, if I've planned for quesadillas, I need to make the tortillas the night before.  Etc.
There's a lot of flexibility in my planning, b/c most staples are already at home and can be subbed in/out, we always have some ingredients for super easy pantry meals, and I generally have a plan for "If everything goes to hell on Wed and we order chinese, this is how the rest of the week will be adjusted..."

Re: repeating meals, I figure that I will be the first to notice.  If I don't notice/feel like something's too frequent, DH and DD certainly wont!

S braised beef cheek (crockpot, yum), roasted sweet potatoes and brussels sprouts
M leftovers (it's just me and DD.  We'll sub leftover mixed veggies from Saturday b/c I ate all the brussels sprouts!)
T homemade chicken nuggets OR fish sticks with some kind of veggie.  Probably edamame (again, just me and DD)
W chicken stirfry with snow peas and peppers
T pulled pork sandwiches (made and froze pulled pork a while ago), broccoli
F leftovers, or eggs/toast, or cereal/fruit, as energy and refrigerator permit (again, just me and DD).
S pork posole, cornbread if I feel like making it[/quote]

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