meal plan help

KPaden1221

who plans out their dinners each week? I wanna start doing it!! But my husband does the cooking and stuff.. how did y'all start doing it? I think if I could plan out meals... really right now just starting with dinner to get me and my hubs started on this it will help soooo much... any help advice or even meal plans will be great!! also, back to this breakfast thing.. everyone says something different about slimfast but i hate breakfast, i hate to eat anything in the morning, making shakes, eggs, anything makes me sick to my stomach.. please help me with this breakfast thing!!

megz4987

Breakfast is very important to eat. It's exactly what it says, breaking a fast. Getting anything in your system for breakfast is good, it gets your metabolism going for the day. A peice or two of toast, Quaker brand has a great cereal called oatmeal squares, they're even delicious just to snack on for breakfast.


I don't do the cooking in my household, either. But we buy everything for meals for the week. I think a good start would be to buy veggies for the week and build your meals around them. Roasting veggies are delicious (squash, broccoli, etc) and grilling them is ..mmmmm so good. I've been told to think of your plate like a TV dinner but switch the portions around. Make the big protein/meat section your veggie section and veggie section, the meat section. So I figure it makes sense to build meals around the veggie instead of the meat

hhhmygirls

I do not like to eat in the morning, what I do is have a piece of toast with p-nut butter or just plain .. Then 2 hrs or so later I will have a yogurt..... It seems if I skip breakfast I over eat in the afternoon and evening so I make my self eat something

Smittyinthesun2

I like my Multigrain cheeries and my half a cup of 1% milk = 160 calories. Sometimes I'll make 2 scrambled eggs 70 each = 140 so for 300 calories, I got whole grain and protien, not a bad start to the day.

scantrll

My b/f and I plan our weekly meals on Sundays. We sit down together, figure out what we want to have for dinner each night (and normally we take the leftovers for lunch the next day since its just the two of us), make our shopping list, I do the couponing thing, and then we go grocery shopping together. This way, we only go shopping once a week for groceries and by going together we are less likely to put junk in the cart - we keep each other accountable.

We also of course try and plan healthier foods for the week. We do plan one meal that might not be so healthy - like tonight's meal is a homemade chicken cordon blue casserole thing. Its not horrible for us, but its not great either. By having that one meal already planned out, we are much, much less likely to splurg and go get Chinese takeaway or something equally horrible. LOL

For example, this week's menu is:

Monday: Grilled Salmon with Asparagus and Watermelon
Tuesday: Chicken Cordon Blue Casserole and grapes
Wednesday: Veggie Cassoulet with Turkey Italian sausage sparingly and watermelon
Thursday: Grilled Tuna steaks, with corn on the cob and baked potato and grapes
Friday: Skillet Pasta Florentine (made with FF cottage cheese and FF ricotta and whole grain noodles)
Saturday: Veggie open faced Burrito (with corn and black beans) and grapes
Sunday: Oven Fried Sea Scallops with green beans and watermelon

Hope this helps! And goodluck!

AAJoseph

It took a little getting used to, but shopping together and letting my husband know what I preferred definitely helped . If that did not work I just replaced (i.e. there is no white sugar, bread, rice (wtill work in progress)) in the house. Or I will just do the grocery shopping. I also buy in bulk... like every three-four weeks I try to keep 2-3 whole chickens, other "treat" meats like veal or link sausage, raw shripm in 1-2lb bags, and always a nice whole fillet of salmon (and I cut it up myself, sometimes I will season before freezing my already portioned 2-4 oz. fillets) I like the 2 oz. fillets for myself... having two pieces (even though I know it is still 4 oz. total) lets me feel like I am eating a little more. Silly me.

I also buy berries in bulk and freeze (sometimes I will cut up 1/3 of the strawberries- for toppins like cereal, I will puree another 1/3 for easy addition to smoothies and as a smooth topping on my greek yogurt, and keep the rest fresh for my son). Same for bananas, and other fruits and veggies.

Overall, making the replacements and bulk shopping has been the most helpful for me. If it is not in the house... we will not eat it and if I spent money on it... we will eat it.

Best Wishes.

sue26

I know different people have views as to how soon after getting up you should eat breakfast, but I dont do breakfast very well either and have found that if I have a drink when I get up then eat later on ( about 11?2 - 2 hrs later) Im better. I find a snack bag of dry high protein cereal is easy. Dont have much advice on the meal plans though as I make up my mind what Im cooking at dinnertime. I find if I plan I dont feel like eating that meal then I eat something "tasty" and we all know what that means. :laugh:
As for the slimfast idea I think a ready made breakfast drink - try to find one with protein in- may be a good thing.