Many people know about the usefulness of planning something in their own life in advance. Does this rule apply to daily nutrition? Definitely yes! And, if there is a great determination to make your life easier by starting to eat right and healthy, then you are on the right track.
It is worth noting that the emphasis will be solely on dinners. After all, it is at this time of the day that the whole family gathers at the table. While breakfast and lunch are individual meals: someone does not have breakfast at all, and lunch most often overtakes outside the hearth.
For lifelong freelancers, whose place of work is a soft sofa, you can recommend having lunch with the leftovers of the evening meal, or quickly organize a simple salad of greens available in the refrigerator.
So, let's begin.
To draw up a full-fledged weekly menu, you have to spend 60 minutes of free time. It is optimal to do this on Saturday so that you can buy all the necessary groceries during a Sunday trip to the supermarket. Gradually, this preparation will take much less time and it will become a useful habit.
Try not to ruthlessly throw away the previously compiled menu, but put it in a separate folder - after all, it will be possible later on to successfully alternate the ready-made options.
To put together a menu, arm yourself with very few:
- a pencil, a ballpoint pen will also work;
- paper. It is usually customary to advise a landscape one, but it is much more convenient to have a thin lined notebook;
- culinary recipes. Here, everyone chooses independently: someone takes an old cookbook, and for someone the Internet is the best archery teacher.
Real life, or How to combine circumstances and menus
It is advisable to make a vegetable day at least once a week. Let the rest of the diet be a couple of fish, a couple of meat days, but one day should be left free. This is necessary in cases where you know for sure that you dine with your parents on Saturdays, or go to a restaurant as a bonus for a difficult working week.
If your kids attend clubs and sections, then plan the menu so that the time goes not for cooking, but for the children. It's easy to do: plan meals the day before these events in large quantities, so that there is enough food for several days. And it's not hard for you, and you will have time for your family!
On busy days or you know you'll be back late, opt for simple foods. For example, fish, vegetable dishes, light salads. It will be gorgeous if such food is tasty and cold, or requires a minute heating in the microwave.
It is better to plan complex meals or recipes that are new to you closer to the weekend. After a hard day, it is better to relax with your loved ones than to hang around the stove for a few more hours.
Typically, a full meal takes an average of 45 minutes. The exception is, perhaps, dishes from the oven. But here you can prepare everything, and then put it in the oven and leave to go about your business. That is why this method of cooking should become the main one. Also, an option would be to connect a modern miracle of technology and an assistant in the kitchen - a multicooker.
Before you blindly make a list for the week, do a revision in your refrigerator. It often happens that it is here that there are a lot of products that should be eaten immediately. It is on their basis that you build your own family food program.
If the echo only walks in the refrigerator, then it will be many times easier to compose a menu for a week - you can enter anything here!
To eat immediately, or Create a step-by-step menu
Let's start from the tips to the menu itself.
The following may appear on a piece of paper:
- Monday: fish day;
- Tuesday: vegetarian day (we cook for two days).
- Wednesday: we eat the leftovers of Tuesday;
- Thursday: borscht or meat cabbage soup;
- Friday: lunch with parents;
- Saturday: chicken dishes;
- sunday: "fantasize" from what's left.
You can now flip through your recipe books. You should immediately write down the dishes you like opposite the days of the week. If you are using a cookbook, include the recipe page number. If you find a more interesting option, correct it. Only without fanaticism, otherwise you risk not making a choice at all.
There are a lot of options for compiling a weekly menu. Here you have complete freedom of choice, and the article provides only a basic example of possible actions for housewives. The menu should be considered individually for each family, based on taste preferences and the size of the wallet.
