On a diet, how do you keep from eating the same old thing day after day? By forcing yourself to create a varied list of menus to choose from.
Our first concern is not defaulting to chicken 5 nights a week. So, we actually scripted out the main ingrediant of each meal, based on the day of the week. We won’t be strict with this necessarily, but it will help us plan our meals ahead of time each week. Having an actual list of ingeredients that you know you need is a key to not buying the unhealthy foods.
So, what does our initial plan look like? Glad you asked…
| Day | Main Ingredient |
|---|---|
| Monday | chicken |
| Tuesday | vegetarian |
| Wednesday | leftovers |
| Thursday | pork or chicken |
| Friday | seafood |
| Saturday | pasta |
| Sunday | beef |
Wednesday is a busy one for us - bowling night for me and choir for the kids, so we’ll hopefully have some good leftovers to use up. Breakfasts for me will primarily be breakfast bars and lunches will either be leftovers or Smart Ones meals.
Yeah, I need to do something similar - especially since my wife’s vegetarian and I’m not!
Got to your blog thru 43things.com - isn’t that site cool?
Joey
http://magis.blogs.com
It sure is - I haven’t gone out to look at it for a while - too easy to waste a lot of time there.
I can’t imagine trying to live as a vegetarian - I don’t have the creative chops to have a good variety. I suppose someone who is serious about it would overcome that.