How is your January Meal Planning going? Are you going complicated? Are you keeping simple? Comfort Food? Yes or no? Or are you going according to the weather?
I ask these last questions because we here in Southeast Michigan are at whopping single digit temps. Yeah! Finally we got snow last week. And we are expecting more this week at some point. Yep! Winter is finally here. Here’s my strategy at meal planning:
- What is here is here. What does that mean? Simple. I have an abundance of spices so I am looking at how to utilize them. With a boat load of cookbooks.
- Freezer and Pantry Cooking. Again, go back to what is here is here. If we really want to try a new item fine. If we like it then we keep it on hand. Right now, I know we have fried rice in the fridge ready to be used with Hosin Chicken to go with it. Plus I have Khao Mok Gai (Thai Turmeric Chicken Rice) chicken ready to be used with rice soaking in water.
- We also have veggies frozen and fresh to use for soups because it is currently 2 outside. As I said it is winter. Soup and baking season is here. Why? The oven will help heat your home or just the bottom floor.
Please share your strategies you use toward meal planning. And don’t forget about Canauary with Liesa Sutton from Sutton Daze hosting. Below will be a link to Liesa’s event she host in January. Also, don’t forget to put Pinterest to use.
References
Canuary 2024. (n.d.). YouTube. Retrieved January 14, 2024, from https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEHHxNZcjnIQ2I3O0PN6ki0z5-32_e1JB
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I have to get into meal planning again. I am too good at just buying things that looks good in the store, but it often ends up a lot more expensive than if i had planned it beforehand
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