For three years I have been using a menu planning form that I typed up. For years I wrote down the week's menu on a scrap of paper, but with international students joining our household, I needed to have a more concrete way to keep track of what I was making. At first I made a one month form that had a column for writing in the meals and another for jotting down particular things I needed to buy that I don't normally keep on hand.
If I was making a new recipe like Ginger beef, I would ask the students if it was authentic or not, and what I needed to change. Many times they gave me a thumbs up. To my dismay not many of them had ever cooked with their mothers. Cooking together has been something that I have done with my kids for years, and I've found that teaching Chinese students how to cook has been fun.
This past summer I decided to make my menu form go for two months. One thing I have found that makes this easier for me is when I'm looking up recipes, I only have to find 8 fish recipes, 8 Mexican dishes, etc. What a load off my menu planning! Another thing that's nice is I keep these all on a magnet clip and I can flip through and see the last time I made something. Here's a picture I took of my form.
Let me know about your meal planning tips!
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