Comments on: Meal Planning: We’re Not in Stepford Anymore, Toto.

By: Samma

Samma — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:05:04 +0000

I need to try meal plans- I have some great ones from Savingdinner.com. I work 50-60 hours a week, and my husband is gone 3 nights during the week. It makes it hard to plan ahead. How is it going for you?

By: Laura

Laura — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 17:03:17 +0000

I cook dinner every night for my husband and I but we don’t have kids. I do however work a very full time job usually 50 and sometimes 60 hours a week. The only way it works is meal plans. I make them every friday morning before work and go to the grocery store friday after work. This way I start the weekend with everything I need. I love to cook so I do my fun meals on the weekends when I have time and quicker meals weeknights. My most go-to cookbook for good quick dinners is Everyday Dinners from the Martha Stewart magazine. That book is amazing. Everything is good, quick and fairly inexpensive to make.

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By: kate

kate — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:39:29 +0000

This is kind of random, but these have saved my butt so many trips to the store because of spoiled produce: http://www.amazon.com/Debbie-Meyer-20317-Green-Bags/dp/B0011TMP3Y

I know it sounds like a scam-as-seen-on-TV product, but they totally work! They’ve cut every other weekly trip to the grocery store in half for me b/c I only have to buy produce every other week!
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By: Jen

Jen — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:30:12 +0000

To elaborate on my previous comment, I do a rough meal plan monthly, one bulk grocery shopping trip monthly, combined with small weekly grocery shopping for the fresh stuff. Mise en place is done for about an hour Sunday and it’s amazing how much more I feel like cooking when I know the vegetables are already chopped and ready to go…the lettuce is already washed, etc. I also do my best to double every meal, half of the meal is then frozen in individual-sized portions for future lunches or meals where we are not all home to eat.

By: Jen

Jen — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:27:31 +0000

Mise en place definitely saves my sanity.

By: Disgruntled Julie

Disgruntled Julie — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 13:32:45 +0000

I have to admit that your post kind of scares me for the future. Neither my husband or I will be giving up our careers when we have children — and in our chosen respective fields (he is a doctor, I am in my 5th year towards a Ph.D. in biochemistry/biophysics), we will each be clocking between 60-80 hours/week. On top of that, while we still lived together, I always, every night, had dinner on the table, cooked entirely from scratch, for us to eat together, and I cannot imagine not doing that when we do eventually have children. But I read posts by SAHMs who talk about how much harder it is than they anticipated… and I can’t fathom fitting it all in plus 60-80 hours/week in the lab, and on top of that all the journal reading and data analysis I do at home in the evenings. I do hear women I work with talk about how they actually are able to accomplish it — 10 hour days in the lab, 6 days a week, children in daycare so no nannying at home, freshly cooked meals every single night, all the housework done by themselves — is it really possible, or are they all just exaggerating?!
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