We are going to try for a month to eat out much less.  Possibly even thru the holidays altho it does get harder and harder to do that as Christmas comes.  We are just out so much we end up eating while out. 

 

I based my menu on repeating certain things based on activity nights - every Monday is Scout night so we are having a crockpot meal because I'm always really busy getting my den meeting together at the last minute.  Every Friday will be spaghetti with a hot dog for Chane who hates spaghetti and we'll have dessert night that night to force me to try all the desserts I want to try and to bake more which I like but tend to put off. 

 

Every Sunday we are going to have a real home-cooked meal of something I think of as a family meal like a roast chicken or roast beef.  Something old style.  And every Saturday I scheduled something fun to take the place of pizza like BLTs or tacos - hopefully Braeden will be okay with that.  When he started his "eating better" plan we promised him a treat meal every Saturday which he takes to mean Subway, pizza or Chinese but I scheduled fun kid foods he likes to eat instead so hopefully that will do.

 

Wednesday nights we are always out because of Chane's therapy appointment.  Tuesdays and Thursdays we are usually home so I put down things that take a little more work and aren't "make ahead" type meals since I'll have time to make dinner that night.

 

It is a pretty boring menu but if I try to be adventurous or too "from scratch" I may end up giving up. 

 

If you see this, wish me luck! We have to stop all this eating out!!