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. Leave a comment.