The age-old question "what to cook?" tortures millions of housewives around the world every day. In order for him not to be taken by surprise, it is important to think over the family menu in advance. It can be quite varied if you try hard.
It is necessary
A sheet of paper, a printer, a computer, a program for making a menu
Instructions
Step 1
Conduct an audit. For a competent and economical use of all available resources in the house, clean the refrigerator or simply go through everything that is in it. Write down any food leftovers you have on a piece of paper. Based on this, you can plan what you will cook from them in the near future and what you need to buy in addition in the store for this.
Step 2
Make sure in advance that the house always has the most necessary and indispensable products, such as vegetable and sunflower oil, eggs, cereals, flour, sugar, milk, cheese, soda, vinegar, yeast, tomato paste, onions, carrots, potatoes, garlic, lemons, canned fish, spices. So you can always cook up something from the handy products.
Step 3
Write a list. When planning what you will cook tomorrow, write it down on a piece of paper and next to each dish, in parentheses, indicate what is missing to prepare it. You can first compile this list electronically, and then print it and hang it on the refrigerator. Thus, already in the evening of the previous day, looking at the planned dishes, you can cook or cut something in advance, and the next day you will only have to finish the job.
Step 4
You can design the menu at your own discretion, or you can download a ready-made template on the Internet. It is a good idea to leave space for family members to write down their wishes for the future. So you will not only satisfy the preferences of your family, but also make it easier for yourself in terms of thinking over the future diet.
Step 5
Take advantage of new technologies. The innovation has reached housewives as well: now they can put their recipe books aside. There are many different programs on the Internet for making menus for both a day and a week or even a month. Most of them combine various functions, such as storing and recording recipes, searching among the available recipes by criteria, for example, by ingredients or cooking time, and, of course, the compilation of the menu itself. These programs are convenient in that when planning a family menu, they immediately display a list of necessary products and can even calculate how many of them will be required for a specific number of servings. You can also drive in the products you already have in the refrigerator, and the program will take this into account. In addition, many applications already contain a number of popular recipes.
