The pantry & freezer have been cleared out a bit and now it's on to other things. Honestly, I got tired of Turkey Burgers so it was time to have some RED MEAT! I'm still keeping food shopping to a minimum, because my big plan is to carefully re-stock the freezer.
The challenge of eating what we already have on hand really inspired me to be creative and save money. It also made me realize I need to change the way I shop for and store food a bit.
One thing I think I can take away from this experience is to actually calculate how much food we will need for, say, a 6 month period of time, and kind of pre-plan what we will make. For example, we can designate one night a week as "ground meat" night to make hamburgers, meatballs, spaghetti, etc. and order 26 packages of ground meat.
Up to now, I've just been going around all willy-nilly buying what's on sale - which is great! I'll continue to look for sales to stock up, but with an actual plan in mind.
Now, I am not sitting down and making a meal plan for an entire 6 months, that would exhaust me and make me crazy, but I feel I can handle something like this:
Sunday: Chicken
Monday: Fish
Tuesday: Ground Meat
Wednesday: eat out or leftovers
Thursday: Chicken
Friday: Fish
Saturday: Beef or Pork
This is just an example I pulled out of the air. But it will help determine how many servings of meat we need for the year. Perhaps one night can even be a Vegetarian or Bean night - it doesn't have to be all about the meat.
Here's a link to some forms that may help if you're interested in trying this as well.
http://www.scribd.com/cookncents
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