Karine Talks Meal Planning
I kid you not: I am writing/posting this with less than an hour (edit update: now less than 15 minutes) to get food on the table for three of my four kids before they need to be at a hockey arena. (My 14 year old daughter Milla is already at her dance studio armed with leftover rice, cheese and crackers, yogurt, an apple and popchips — hey, it isn’t pretty but at least I am being honest.)
As you can imagine, meal planning for a busy family of six can be a challenge: There’s the aforementioned dancer (who moonlights as a rugby player in the off-season), three young hockey/rugby/lacrosse/soccer/baseball players depending on the month, a husband who commutes (and, admittedly, is a better cook than me) and my working-mom-slash-“flexitarian”-self, and feeding my family used to be a nightmare.
That is, until, I discovered SPC’s tips on meal planning. Simple, easy, thoughtful and economical. (Karine Life Lesson: We took Ceri’s advice and let everyone choose one dinner a week. At least once a week a kid is happy. The seventh meal is either at a restaurant, delivery or breakfast for dinner. #backtothathonestything)
And, if you watch their video, Ceri and Laura (gently and kindly in my opinion) make fun of people like me who aim to have a yearly meal plan: I almost have six months worth DONE — I am talking breakfasts, lunches and dinners — because I started back when they first posted this video, and I keep and label each plan by the week (including my grocery list), so by next September, the cycle will be complete and everything will be new again!
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We're Ceri and Laura, a couple of magazine-editors-turned-food-bloggers. Also, we're mothers obsessed with delicious, healthy, family food. We're constantly thinking of ways to make your time (and our own!) in the kitchen easier and more productive, but still nostalgic for the days when dinner was cereal eaten over the kitchen sink.
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