{"id":5946,"date":"2011-06-10T09:19:01","date_gmt":"2011-06-10T13:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ahealthysliceoflife.com\/2011\/06\/10\/my-weekly-meal-plan\/"},"modified":"2018-09-13T18:44:45","modified_gmt":"2018-09-13T22:44:45","slug":"my-weekly-meal-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ahealthysliceoflife.com\/my-weekly-meal-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"My Weekly Meal Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve talked in passing about my weekly grocery shopping trip and how I plan meals for the week.\u00a0 Now that I am a part of a CSA<\/a>, it makes things a bit more complex.\u00a0 Fortunately, my CSA<\/a> is amazing, and she actually sends us out a list on Friday of what we\u2019ll receive in our boxes on Saturday.\u00a0 This really helps with planning.<\/p>\n

Now typically, I do meal planning on Sunday, but for sake of a Friday post, I decided to go ahead and plan next week this morning.\u00a0 Here\u2019s my typical routine.<\/p>\n

I make a list of dinners for us to have Monday-Thursday.\u00a0 We typically go out to eat Friday & Saturday nights and unless I plan something fancy to eat Sunday night, which I didn\u2019t this week, we have last week\u2019s leftovers or eat up some staple items<\/span><\/strong>.\u00a0 Also, I look at the calendar to see what is planned for the next week because that might alter dinner decisions.\u00a0 Example: girls nights<\/span><\/em>! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

\"Weekly<\/a><\/p>\n

As you can see, I also write down breakfast foods (Hubbs go-to is a bagel), snack options and what I\u2019ll have for lunch (I actually don\u2019t mind eating the same thing everyday for lunch).<\/p>\n

In the back of my mind, I know I keep other staples around in case I want to switch things up (canned beans, frozen fruits and veggies, pasta, sauce, pb&j, almond milk for smoothies, frozen turkey meatballs and veggie burgers, etc).<\/p>\n

Then, I flip the paper over and write out everything I need to have to make the listed meals come together.<\/p>\n

\"Weekly<\/a><\/p>\n

When I say \u2018write down everything\u2019, that\u2019s exactly what I mean.\u00a0 Even items I know I already have on hand.\u00a0 Then, I go back and cross off items I already have and items that will be in my CSA share.<\/p>\n

\"Weekly<\/a><\/p>\n

I check to see what coupons I have on hand (which usually aren\u2019t many- I\u2019m not much of a couponer, though it interests me<\/em>).<\/p>\n

\"Coupons\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Then I head to the stores! I\u2019ve mentioned I\u2019m not very loyal to grocery stores.\u00a0 I tend to play the field.\u00a0 With this particular list, I\u2019ll probably pick up my CSA Saturday, then head to 1 \u2018fancy\u2019 health store (Healthy Home Market or Fresh Market) and 1 \u2018regular\u2019 grocery store (Harris Teeter) to complete my list.<\/p>\n

So there you have! My weekly play-by-play!<\/p>\n

Is your weekly routine similar?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve talked in passing about my weekly grocery shopping trip and how I plan meals for the week.\u00a0 Now that I am…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1475],"tags":[137,136,138],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahealthysliceoflife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5946"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahealthysliceoflife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahealthysliceoflife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahealthysliceoflife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahealthysliceoflife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahealthysliceoflife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahealthysliceoflife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahealthysliceoflife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahealthysliceoflife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}