How to create a menu for the week
Food / / December 19, 2019
As we know, and not catch fish from the pond easily. This same rule applies when drawing up the menu. Pokorpet will have an hour over this simple, in general, the task.
There is good news:
- Spent time on the preparation of the menu will return to you with more than a week ago.
- It will save you a lot of nerves. It is not necessary to be in a hurry runs into the store on the way home, do not have to torture strained the already tired mind the question "What would you cook today?".
- At the end of the month you will surely be surprised to find that spend less money on food.
- Your home will be more varied and the food is likely to taste better.
- It will be easier to eat really balanced and not to torment the body endless food from cans or the whole week has cooked soup on Monday.
I assume that the pros will be typed more. Everything depends on the current state of affairs.
Just make a reservation: The article we will focus on the preparation of the dinner menu when (hopefully) your whole family gathers at the table.
breakfastsAs a rule, it is different. Someone and do not have time for breakfast at home, and the vast majority dine outside.To create a full menu for the week, select 1 hour of free time. For example, on Sunday, and even better on Saturday (Sunday in time to buy all the products). In the future, you will leave much less time on this activity.
Do not discard the created menu and carefully fold them into a folder. Then they can be alternated again.
After a couple of months, we can safely return to the previous menu options.
To compile the menu, you will need:
- A4 sheet of paper.
- The handle, or better yet, a pencil.
- Your favorite cookbooks (I, for one, love Jamie Oliver's books) Or cooking magazines, a selection of scrapbooks with recipes and the like.
- your family plan for the upcoming week (if you do not remember).
What to do is not recommended
To use the tablet, or computer to search for recipes. Only time will lose.
First, even very interesting articles difficult to read online, without being distracted by a reminder pop-ups and so on. And about finding recipes I generally keep quiet ...
Secondly, the recipes from the Internet is difficult then to find in your already impressive list of bookmarks.
Thirdly, the variety of recipes you are lost and in the end, as we often do it when the selection is too large, do not choose anything at all.
If you have a favorite blogger recipes that you like and you have long wanted to try them out, I advise you to save them the old-fashioned way - by print on paper. You will not once again distracted by the internet, and if recipes were successful, be able to put them into a folder of your favorite dishes. I, for example, there are also such. There I collect copies of the recipes that I have tried out at a party, and there, on the spot, has received a photocopy.
If you liked some of the cooking recipe magazine, then carefully cut it out and hem in the folder, and discard or give the magazine. So you will avoid unnecessary piles of paper in the house and you can easily find the recipe when you need it.
How to account for the circumstances of your life in your menu
I recommend doing at least one vegetarian day a week, two chicken, two fish, one meat and one day left free (why free - more on that below). More is better to increase the number of vegetarian and fish days, due to the reduction of chicken and meat.
If you know in advance that you have on Fridays restaurant, remember this and make the menu only for six days.
If your children go to clubs on Tuesdays and Thursdays, I recommend to take into account this. In these days it is better to leave time for children, saving it for cooking. So feel free to plan your meals on Monday and Wednesday in large batches, which will be enough for two days.
In those days, when you come later (for example, you have courses or training), plan the best light meals: salads, vegetarian hot dishes, fish.
One of the important conditions for success: do not choose for weekdays and Sundays slozhnosochinonnye meals that take a lot of time and effort. If there is a desire to include something more complex in the menu on Friday or Saturday (or when you have a free day on the schedule).
Even if you really like to cook, like me, you still get tired of endlessly stuck in the kitchen, especially after a long day. And why? The world's a huge amount of very delicious and healthy recipes that are easy to implement.
Personally, I have a rule: a maximum of 30-45 minutes to cook a full dinner. Exceptions - dishes that are cooked in the oven. There you all clean, cut, put in the oven and went about his business. Recipes I pick up (if they are not my invention) according to these criteria - tasty, fast and easy. That is why give preference to dishes that are cooked in the oven.
Leave one day per week... empty. Even if you do not have to go to a restaurant or to visit, and you'll definitely home. My experience confirms that no matter how planned products will always remain. Therefore, in my family we have introduced the "day residue" that we spend a Sunday (or on the last day before the next purchase for the new menu products). On such a day, I strain my imagination, or look through cookbooks, replacing the missing ingredients similar. Sometimes obtained simply a masterpiece, the recipes of which I spread in his blog together with the menu for the week for the whole family.
Before you sit down and start making a list, I advise you to look into the fridge. What have you lying around and requires urgent human consumption? It is these foods should form the basis of your menu.
For example, if you do there is a head of cabbage, then turn the salad on the menu, "Cole Slaw" or cabbage (or both, if the cabbage a lot). If there is a chicken, then think of dishes with it.
If the mouse was hung in the refrigerator, then congratulations! You will be much easier to create a menu, and you can write there whatever your heart desires (of food).
We turn to the most menu
On a sheet of paper, write a plan. For example:
- Monday: a fish.
- Thursday: vegetarian (for two days).
- Environment: the remains.
- Monday: soup with meat.
- Friday: restaurant.
- Saturday: chicken.
- Sunday: "fantasy of the remains."
Flip through your collection of recipes. If you need a dish with chicken, use the pointer at the end of a cookbook. Very often come across a great option when you realize that in 1-2 recipes will be able to use all the products remaining from this week, just after purchasing, for example, rice and parsley with garlic. These recipes are ideal for thrifty housewives and hosts.
Immediately start recording in your list favorite dishes next to the days of the week. Specify the name of the dish, the name of the book and the recipe page number. If the best option will fall, the correct written in the eye. Then I advise you not to get involved. As soon as you have on a piece of paper will plan on all days, round out. Make a bookmark on favorite recipes and apply them for the next week, when the time comes.
Usually, once you do. Over time, you will all turn out much faster.
Dishes from the menu of the week can be varied in its sole discretion and adjust to fit their changed plans. So, if you did not want to fish on Monday, then freeze it and cook the chicken. And on Saturday, then eat the fish.
But the only thing I do not recommend to defrost food in the microwave. They are rubber.
It is better to remove the food from the freezer the previous evening and put in the fridge, packed well. So they will not lose its beneficial properties. In this case, note that Fish and seafood defrost faster and chicken meat. They can get it in the morning before going to work.
And again, it is not necessary to make a list on a day off, and begin planning on Monday.
I, for example, are bought on Tuesday, when the people in the shops are not so much. So my plan, too, begins on Tuesday - with fresh produce.
As you can see, options for setting the menu for the week set. This activity gives you the freedom of action, and the menu can and should be adjusted to your needs and the needs of your family.
Good health to you!