food management

Perhaps I am lazy or dumb or crazy, or a little of all of the above?!  Managing the food buying, cooking, and planning has been a major thorn in the heel of my life for quite some time.  I don't hate it but I have never really come up with a system that worked for the long term. I have had good days, weeks and months, but it pretty much stops there.  I haven't sustained it.

My current bff:  

House of Order Handbook.

  

I am working my way through this book and hope to totally organize myself for ever and ever, amen.  But for right this moment I am working on developing her system of menu planning, shopping, and cooking.  I am trying to NOT tweak it since it has been made painfully clear that I do not have it figured out!  Tweaking can come later after I have put her system in place and USED IT!  

I have daydreams of living an incredibly peaceful, sane, organized life in a tidy little house with children who are dressed every morning and we even have fixed hair and brushed teeth.  (Like I said, it IS a dream here!)  

Then I open my eyes and cry out, WHY ME!!!!!!!

Anyway, this great little book covers everything from setting up your desk in an efficient way, managing laundry, budgeting, buying in bulk, and (my favorite) getting your kids to help!  WOO HOO!  I can't wait for that chapter!

So, today, I am working on setting up my Master Menu of 28 dinner meals that will actually get eaten along with our favorites for breakfast, lunch and snacks.  I love that once this is done, I won't have to think.  That is really the way I prefer to keep things around here.  

One of the best parts of the book is that she gets right to the point in each chapter.  She starts with a checklist, then gives maybe a couple pages of information, then right to your worksheets and tells you to GET TO WORK, WOMAN!  Okay, not really but that is what I tell myself and it really helps sometimes.

I have my desk pretty much done and I will let you know how the food planning goes.  Then I will conquer the rest of my life and hopefully, somewhere under the chaos, I will find my sanity.  It has been gone for a while, and I'm starting to miss that pesky critter.