Menu planning does not make me a geek
That’s right folks. I plan out what I intend to eat a week in advance.
I don’t do this because of some weird obsessive compulsive behaviour. Although, it may be argued that I am borderline OCD about many things.
I plan what to eat because I simply would never be organized enough to take food out of the freezer, to make sure I have the right groceries in the house, etc.
I also like to make sure I am eating healthy. I stick to a pretty strict eating schedule and having a menu plan helps me to eat regularly on that schedule.
When guests come over and glance upon my fridge they see the menu plan clipped with a magnet to the fridge. They laugh. They ask what’s for dinner tonight. In some cases, they get ideas and want to eat the same thing tomorrow night.
If I look at the menu plan and decide I just don’t feel like having salmon for dinner tonight, I’ll take a look at another night’s menu and swap it out. It’s not like I am that die-hard over sticking exactly to the plan.
Does anyone else out there menu-plan? Why do you do it? How does it help you?
January 26, 2009. Tags: food, menu, menu planning, obsessive compulsive, OCD, organization, schedule. Cooking, food, Healthy Lifestyle.
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