i'm such a dork.  i scheduled a crockpot meal for today, fully intending to go start it and then totally forgot about it.  i just came down (and was pleasantly surprised to see your post on here sara!  no prob on "messing up" the thread - i always like new ideas).  anyway i just came down to see what was scheduled and it's a meal i can't serve now!

 

i like the calendar idea.  i don't think i could deal with paper - i'm terrible with keeping track of notebooks and stuff and a calendar would be similar.  i'm good with other kinds of paperwork nowadays, but i have trouble keeping track of papers i carry around with me, the notebooks or papers i use for jotting.  for example, right now i don't know where the schedule i made for disney is so i can make hoopdedoo reservations.  it would have been fine if it were something that came in the mail or was done because my files are great, but it was scribbled in a notebook and unfinished it and i was carrying it around everywhere.  same with the big menu i made!  i sat down and did this whole calendar grid thing that would repeat every month or two with 2-3 alternates for each day so that we could technically have 6 months of menus without repeats other than the stuff we really like like spaghetti and grilled chicken (and fish for s& the kids).  anyway, i lost it.  not permanently - it's somewhere in a notebook, probably in my hellhole of a car. 

 

i  keep my calendar online too because i don't trust myself to do a proper paper one.  i use yahoo's calendar.  i also have this "thing" about messy papers - my writing is really bad and i scratch things out a lot and it bothers me to see it.  i need it to look fresh or it bothers me (stupid i know, it's just a thing i have).  if it's typed i can come down, fix it and reprint it but if it's handwritten i'd have to rewrite it which actually is painful nowadays (you should see handwritten notes for the inventory i posted - unreadable!) :-)

 

i think i will take your calendar idea and add the meals to my yahoo calendar?  it emails me every day with events so it would email me the dinner menu the night before.  you can definitely list dinners.  that would be great!  i have several other typical things i make that aren't in this one.  if you need ideas you can scroll thru my other menus - i do that sometimes to remind myself of dishes we like that i forget about...

 

oh and no i don't freeze raisins.  but c doesn't like grapes (or so he says, i think he was just being a pain the day he said that because he did the same thing w/raisins and recently begged me to buy a box).  so the raisins on the list are in case he complains about the grapes.  i've found that my kids will eat anything for a snack and be mostly happy IF it's scheduled and they see that it's scheduled.  kids are weird.  like i could schedule popcorn and they are happy as clams, but if they come home the exact same day and say what's for snack and i say "i don't know, how about popcorn?" they will suddenly hate popcorn for a snack!  or they both end up wanting different things which is a pain. 

 

that reminds me i need to put the lemon cookies in right before i go get them which is in a few minutes.