I cannot belive folk dont menu plan

[FluffyMummy123]

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cod...I forgot the saturdays.....

listen to mine

9am DD1 - choreography
9am DS1 footy
9.30am DS2 footy
10am DD2 and DD3 dancing
10.30 collect DS2 from footy
11am collect DS1 from footy
12am collect the DD's from dance, DS1 and DS2 have streetdance (smae place thankfully).

1pm....me....collapse in a small heap!!

DH works saturdays

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I sometimes use a recipe to check that I haven't forgotten any of the ingredients ( e.g when making bouef bourguignon or chicken risotto) but stuff that I've made a million times before ( e.g spag bol, chilli) I just throw together

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cod - when your monorail's constructed can you build one for me. i have 7 return trips to dance lessons on a saturday. only 5 mins by car but still enought to stop anything constructive happening.

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Choreography?!!! I've heard it all now.

I know a by who does 'young inventors club' and chess.

she loves it, altho I less so when she decides that all her siblings need to show off a dance that she has choreographed, while DH and I have our first night at eating dinner together without the kiddies (we try once a week as we get to talk without interuptions {well, we would had we not had 'shows' to watch})

I cook from my own special recipes! They normally consist of a vague resemblance to something from a cook book that I once read but can only remember half the ingredients and none of the method, and looks nothing like what I remember the picture looks like!

I don't entertain cos my house is too small

she is planning her GSCE's around going to uni to study drama and dance.

I am hopefully raising a genious who will tread the boards on broadway....

listening to you lot I think I will move out to the countryside where there are no weekend activities except lie ins and country walks! Also I'm never learning to drive so that I never have to be an unpaid taxi driver!!!

anyhooo........school run.....

Menu planning is for women who colour coordinate their duster drawer.

I menu plan .

If I didn't we would waste loads of food. I agree that you tend to have a lot of "staples" e.g. rice, pasta, tinned tomatoes in the house anyway, and stuff like fish, chicken, mince etc in the freezer. But if I didn't menu plan, I wouldn't know what I needed in the way of fresh things like mushrooms, peppers, sping onions etc.

I plan a meal for each night, although sometimes the meals end up being swapped round within a week, e.g. we end up up having Monday's meal on Thursday and vice versa.

I do cook recipe type meals most nights, but they are often ones I have done frequently, so don't actually need to consult the recipe while cooking. If I want to try a new recipe, or something I haven't cooked for a while, then i try to do it on a day when I will have a bit more time.

I can't imagine going shopping and not actually knowing what I would need in terms of fresh ingredients.

I very rarely watch cookery shows. (Too busy planning and cooking meals! )

I don't really menu plan. In fact I shop on the day (quite £££ way of doing it, I'll admit). Admittedly, I do sort of stick to a pool of around 20 or so regular dishes and will occasionally flick through a cookbook (of which we have many!) or have a look on the bbc recipes site or the Good Food site (we get the mag anyway) for a bit of new inspiration once in a while.

Tonight it is one of those nights. We are having maple roasted sticky chicken, thyme and veg tray bake with crusty bread. Chicken thighs and drummers are marinading in the fridge as I type.

If you menu plan it's a sign that you have been a SAHM too long and need either to get a job or have a raging SM affair with the Ocado man before you turn into a complete Stepford Wife.

au contraire madamez

I contend that being a SAHM gives me the freedom to shop any time I like, so I don't need to plan ahead.

People who work have to be more organised

You must have very organised teenagers, Cod if you know that far in advance when they are going to be in for a meal - I'm lucky if I know by in the morning whether they will be here that night!

No no no madamez, wrong way round

Menu planning is much more essential if you have a job ime. We get in at 6 and I need to know what dd is having for her tea.

I am a SAHM, but I also menu planned before I had ds, when I was working. And if I got a job (or had an affair with the Ocado man, which is unlikely, seeing as we aren't in an Ocado delivery area ) I would still menu plan. Let's face it, I am just a PLANNER!

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I also have to menu plan (admittedlly half-heartedly) because dh has no idea how to put a meal togetheer. He will just open the fridge and say 'there's nothing to eat' - he needs to be told.

I menu plan. It makes life so much easier. We all know what we're having as I put the menu up on the noticeboard in the kitchen. Not only does it mean very little superfluous shopping, but it also means you can defrost stuff the night before.

Also, of course, the weekly menu can be flexible when necessary. Ours is a guideline and not 'set in stone'