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How do you plan meals?
How do you plan meals? How do you decide what's for dinner?
Do you start from a recipe? Do you just look at what is in the pantry? Do you draw up a month's worth of meals in advance and plan them down to the letter? Do you just feel like eating something, go to the store, buy the ingredients, and come home and make it?
What's your modus operandi when it comes to choosing what to eat?
My husband and I have two different MOs. I like to plan things out in advance a little more than he does. If I'm really thinking ahead, I will do something like: cook up a batch of black beans and use them for 2 separate meals in a week, freezing the rest, i.e. burritos the first night, soup or chili the second, or vice-versa. He prefers to look at the pantry, see what's in there, and cook. As such, I generally make sure we have a well-stocked pantry. Because he is so good at cooking on the fly (he's made me better at it), when I'm too tired to cook (I work until 6pm), he takes over and does a fantastic job of it.
One of our staple meals around here is:
Pasta
Random vegetable (kale, leek, raab, spinach, or some combination thereof)
Garlic
Lemon juice
Olive oil/butter
1/2 and 1/2
We also eat a lot of stir-fry. Since we have a nice fuzzy logic rice cooker, it's easy to set up the rice ahead of time to cook. Rice and beans are another thing we eat a lot, because we always have both in the pantry. The rice often gets used for the next night's meal: vegetable fried rice or pineapple fried rice.
Your turn.
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