amom23
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Post by amom23 on Apr 11, 2021 17:24:26 GMT
I usually think ahead a few days at a time and we do have regular meals that the family likes so I will usually keep items on hand to make those meals. I typically grocery shop once a week and I'll shop at Costco every 1-2 months.
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Post by myshelly on Apr 11, 2021 17:26:03 GMT
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Post by ~summer~ on Apr 11, 2021 17:27:50 GMT
I was gonna say there was a recent (and I think long!) thread about this recently!
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peabay
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Post by peabay on Apr 11, 2021 17:31:21 GMT
you sound pretty much like me.
I shop on most Saturdays - and pickup extra supplies during the week. Weekly we usually have a pasta dish; boneless, skinless chicken breasts; pork tenderloin; something with ground turkey; a roasted chicken; a casserole; and a turkey breast. We don't really eat red meat. And we'll takeout Chinese, Greek, Indian, deli...whatever probably once or twice a week.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2021 17:38:51 GMT
I grocery shop 1x a week, with a run for fresh produce as needed.
And yes, I meal plan.
I also meal prep.
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sueg
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Post by sueg on Apr 11, 2021 18:03:36 GMT
DH does a big shop on Saturday and I do one or two quick top-up shops (more likely once at the moment) during the week. After the Saturday shop, DH does a menu at least till Tuesday and I add to it normally on Monday in prep for my shop. Our menu varies through the year - more casseroles in winter and more grill and salads in summer.
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Post by mnmloveli on Apr 11, 2021 18:59:27 GMT
We grocery shop every 3-4 weeks since Covid started.
I TRY to meal plan every Friday. Friday’s pizza night so no thinking. I try to plan going forward from then. If I don’t meal plan it’s just too easy to choose take-out.
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Post by huskermom98 on Apr 11, 2021 19:54:49 GMT
Right now my only sort of meal planning involves looking at the weekly sale ad from my grocery store and then shopping once a week.
I need to plan more, but now I really should because not only do I need to be eating better because of recent health issues, but also because baseball season kicked off today. Between DS's games, his umpiring, DH's involvement as a board member of our local Little League we will not be home to eat as a family more than a couple of nights a week.
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janeliz
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Post by janeliz on Apr 11, 2021 20:02:34 GMT
I don’t meal plan. I’ve tried, but it’s just not something I do very well. I hate to do a big, weekly grocery run where it’s a long trip followed by dragging it all home and putting it all away, so I just shop throughout the week and plan meals as I go. I’ll use Instacart or just pop into Publix on my way home from dropping my daughter off at school in the morning.
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Post by 950nancy on Apr 11, 2021 20:06:50 GMT
My meal planning takes about 3 minutes since I just pick meals from Hello Fresh a month at a time. It shows up at my door and is made in about 30 minutes for each meal. The rest of the nights we have leftovers or something simple and once a week we eat out/carry out. I like that my husband works two evenings a week, so I don't feel like every day iI have to plan something.
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Post by catmom on Apr 11, 2021 20:07:34 GMT
I meal plan 1-2 weeks at a time. I look through my favourite cookbooks and my master meal list and put it together with our meal deliveries to create a plan. I'm probably unusual in this, but I also plan breakfasts and lunches to a certain extent. I find if I don't know exactly what I'm having then I won't make anything and will default to skipping breakfast and a drive through for lunch. Now I grocery shop every 7-10 days, and don't get top ups unless its an emergency. In the before times, I would regularly go to the grocery store on the way home from the gym to pick up odds and ends.
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Post by bc2ca on Apr 11, 2021 20:11:32 GMT
Our menu varies through the year - more casseroles in winter and more grill and salads in summer. I alternate where I shop weekly between Trader Joe's and a local grocery store when I run out of milk and bananas. We stop at Costco 2-3 times a month. I buy a lot of the same things weekly, menu plan as I shop and then write it down on a chalkboard when I get home so I don't forget. I usually cook 4-5 dinners a week, have a fend for yourself night, someone else cooks and/or have a take out night.
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Post by mom on Apr 11, 2021 20:35:37 GMT
Menu plan once a week (Sunday) and grocery shop on Monday.
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Post by PolarGreen12 on Apr 11, 2021 20:43:19 GMT
I meal plan a week at a time for dinners and for what I make for breakfast. I put in a online curbside pickup Saturday night to pick up Sunday afternoon.
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kibblesandbits
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Post by kibblesandbits on Apr 11, 2021 20:46:29 GMT
Meal plan and meal prep. Love to have a giant salad made and all toppings prepped and ready. Generally make two meals at once, and on a perfect day, make the meals in the morning so I don’t have to stop what I’m doing later in the day to get a meal started. I just dash through the kitchen and stick it in the oven.
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Post by whipea on Apr 11, 2021 21:00:38 GMT
No. I rarely shop, D/H is the shopper and his meals are way too heavy and weird for me. My meal planning consists of selecting a cereal, deciding on soy or regular milk and is there strawberries, bananas or blueberries to add.
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Post by snugglebutter on Apr 11, 2021 21:52:10 GMT
I shop 2-3 times a week, but I kind of rotate through several stores depending on where the sales are that week.
I make a rough list of meals at the beginning of each month that we can make from the freezer/meat inventory. There are usually a handful of other dishes that people have requested and I will keep those in mind when watching for sales.
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Jili
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Post by Jili on Apr 11, 2021 23:45:06 GMT
I meal plan weekly and it is a great comfort to me, LOL. It's rare that I can get further ahead than that. I don't have the refrigerator or storage space enough to get much beyond that. I managed for two weeks earlier in the pandemic, but that was a challenge and it made working with fresh foods a lot more difficult.
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Post by fredfreddy44 on Apr 12, 2021 0:16:49 GMT
We meal plan weekly. I plan and cook 3 meals and my husband does 2. Other nights are leftovers or order food. I do all the shopping. I put in a delivery order for ZeroGrocery for Tuesday and then buy everything else at the Farmers Market and Nob Hill on Wednesday.
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Post by Merge on Apr 12, 2021 0:21:19 GMT
Meal plan for the coming week and order groceries for pickup or delivery first thing Saturday morning (scheduled for Sunday - that way I have time to add things I forgot over the course of the day).
I work full time and my brain is full during the week. If I didn’t do this, we’d get takeout or eat cereal all the time.
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Post by kels99 on Apr 12, 2021 0:59:24 GMT
My meal planning takes about 3 minutes since I just pick meals from Hello Fresh a month at a time. It shows up at my door and is made in about 30 minutes for each meal. The rest of the nights we have leftovers or something simple and once a week we eat out/carry out. I like that my husband works two evenings a week, so I don't feel like every day iI have to plan something. That's exactly what we do too. Hello Fresh + a grocery pick up once a week for produce, milk, lunch food, etc + take out once a week. Not having to meal plan and grocery shop is my favorite thing about being an empty nester!
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Post by cmpeter on Apr 12, 2021 1:07:06 GMT
Yes. We meal plan on Sunday. We’ve been using Amazon Fresh for groceries. I plan meals for Sun, Mon, Tue and Sat. Wed is take out and Thu/Fri are Home Chef.
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Post by 950nancy on Apr 12, 2021 2:21:46 GMT
My meal planning takes about 3 minutes since I just pick meals from Hello Fresh a month at a time. It shows up at my door and is made in about 30 minutes for each meal. The rest of the nights we have leftovers or something simple and once a week we eat out/carry out. I like that my husband works two evenings a week, so I don't feel like every day iI have to plan something. That's exactly what we do too. Hello Fresh + a grocery pick up once a week for produce, milk, lunch food, etc + take out once a week. Not having to meal plan and grocery shop is my favorite thing about being an empty nester! My husband does the grocery shopping, but so many benefits from this meal service, for sure. So little waste is probably my favorite.
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Post by ExpatBackHome on Apr 12, 2021 3:19:48 GMT
Shopping once a week over the weekend (what I consider a big shopping but we don't do Costco type shopping here) and then I order grocery delivery once or twice during the week.
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Post by chaosisapony on Apr 12, 2021 3:25:47 GMT
I keep a well stocked kitchen and pantry so I can generally make whatever I want. I don't meal plan, I just choose that morning what I want to make for dinner. If I'm home lunch is usually a little snack plate of turkey or salami, some cheese, crackers, cherry tomatoes, a pickle. Something like that. Generally speaking I go to the grocery store about once every two weeks.
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Post by mikklynn on Apr 12, 2021 12:04:04 GMT
I meal plan for about 2 weeks at a time. I don't necessarily plan what I will eat each night, but I plan and shop for meals. I just cross the meal off my list once I make it.
I shop every 3 weeks at my local supermarket, monthly at Costco, and an Amazon Fresh order when I run low on produce and eggs between shopping trips.
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Post by maryland on Apr 12, 2021 14:12:10 GMT
I grocery shop every other day. We are a family of five (3 daughters are 17, 21 and 23) and eat a lot! We only have one regular sized refrigerator and we have it stuffed so full, that we can't store much. We waste so much food because it gets stuffed in the back and we forget we have it. I really should go every day and just get one dinner meal at a time. I think our side by side refrigetator/freezer isn't designed well to hold as much as other refrigerators are. Or maybe I just can't figure out now to organize it.
Meal planning/cooking is by far my least favorite and most stressful chore. I lose sleep trying to think of what to fix for dinner the next day. It's crazy, but I have meal anxiety! I had many meltdowns during the lockdown when I had to meal plan for 2 weeks so I didn't go to the store as much as I usually did. Just ask my kids! It was not fun!
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brandy327
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Post by brandy327 on Apr 12, 2021 14:17:55 GMT
Absolutely. I've done it for years and years. It helps me keep my grocery budget down and I hate having to fight out what to make day to day.
I make my menu and grocery list at the same time. And grocery shop once a week. Usually on Friday mornings. I detest a bust grocery store so typically I go early, get in and out quickly. Minimal fuss. With my surgery, dh doesn't want me to go alone until I'm all healed up... so we went on Friday night last week. It was a lithe busy. And having him and dd with me ended up costing me an additional $50-60. LOLOL That's why I like to go alone.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 12, 2021 14:32:13 GMT
We shop once a week with meals in mind for the week. I’ll pick up a few items during the week if needed. We’ve been trying to keep our grocery store visits to a minimum this past year because of Covid.
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Post by rymeswithpurple on Apr 12, 2021 14:49:20 GMT
I used to go to the store on Friday mornings (I'd been trying to use up vacation hours before they put a cap on how many we can have at once), but now I go on Friday nights. I see what's on sale on Thursdays with the weekly ad preview, and that will sometimes dictate what we make.
It's just the two of us, so we make one big meal on Sundays, and have that from Monday until it's gone. We can usually get it to stretch to Thursday or Friday. It's usually some sort of soup the weeks that my husband has to work in-person; his off weeks are usually fish, broccoli, and rice for him and then a small meatloaf and sides for me, pasta salad and sausage, that also varies. Depends what I'm in the mood for and what's on sale.
We almost always have a steak Saturday (steak, mushrooms, potatoes, and broccoli), and we switch it up on Sundays. Shrimp stir fry, ribs, it varies.
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