Visual Deliciousness
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April Dinners
Visual Menus
This is the part where people start to wonder if they can do what I do. For some people repeated meals is an issue and they worry about getting bored with their foods. I do not have that issue and since the meals change monthly I don't see variety as an issue. So you may ask, how does six meal options get you through the entire month? Well, I quadruple each recipe, eating it FOUR TIMES throughout the month. I prepare the meals in two different freezer bags, having one cook day per back, with the following day always being a left over day. So essentially, I cook the same recipe twice in a month, two weeks apart.
To give you a visual of what I mean, I have included a sample visual menu to illustrate my process.
Below is an old February visual menu, featured in an earlier post. You will see the following dinners: 1) Crockpot Chicken Cacciatore 2) Man-Pleasing Chicken 3) Slow Cooker Chiken Teriyaki 4) Chicken Carnitas Burrito Bowl with Cilantro Lime Cauliflower Rice 5) Chicken Fajitas 6) One-Pot Chicken, Quinoa, Mushrooms & Spinach Recipe How I created it: - I place, the dinners on the calendar, always skipping a day and always skipping Sunday. The empty day is always leftovers and I always write in what sides I need for that dinner. This helps tremendously with my weekly shopping. - Once I have placed all of the dinners. I repeat. - Always take into consideration late evenings you won't be home to cook or vacations you are going to take so you don't end up with a tremendous amount of food at the end of the month. I like to pad in some days because there are a lot of evenings we are not home. I only like to allow us to eat out on Sundays so I don't cook on that day. This is also my weekly food prep day. 
For now, I won't make the visual menus for the year, but if I do, I will post them.
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