Sunday afternoon, I’d reached the end of my rope. It was the last straw … berry. I opened the fridge only to find strawberries that I had forgotten about. Two were white and fuzzy (yuck!) but the rest were salvageable. We weren’t very hungry and ended up eating a strawberry, banana and mandarin orange fruit salad for dinner.
It was decided that I need to give meal planning a try. I’m tired of forgetting what food we have, not having something on hand for a new recipe, constantly trying to figure out what’s for dinner and wasting money on wasted/unused food. When Bobbi started the Real Food Challenge, which includes meal planning, I thought it was a good idea but I couldn’t think of any recipes to try. And then, I found my recipe stack I had forgotten about…
Yikes. Recipe disaster zone.
It reminds me of Megan’s recipe organization situation. So now my next task is to pick some and get to planning. Here’s hoping it works! Have you tried recipe planning?
that corrals your lids and three size bottoms. It’s compact and it spins! For the other pieces that vary in size and shape, we stack them neatly and put the lids in similar order stacked up against the back portion of the cabinet.
, which is glass and BPA-free plastic.
, by Candace Cameron Bure, I realized that I should not be eating snack food all the time. What usually happens when I buy chips is that I eat the whole bag in a matter of days, mindlessly. Candace talks about moderation, but not completely denying yourself of things. I really wanted to throw out the whole bag of Doritos (because I know how bad they are for me), but felt like that would be a waste of money. So instead, I made little baggies for the next 7 weeks with small portions on it.
to come in the mail, things got a little out of hand again. 
