November’s Monthly Habit is Meal Planning.  Many of you have been excited about this habit.  I am truly happy for you too.  For myself, I cannot seem to get as excited about it.  My meal planning is for one and a sample treat for Lily.

 Maybe my perfectionism is getting in the way.  Maybe I am, as a friend of mine likes to remind me says, “Marilyn, You are thinking too hard about this.”  Ok, I am willing to be open to this idea that I could be.  But wait, I am hearing of flybabies planning up to three weeks of meal planning!  How does one even know what one would like that far into the future?

There is one meal I have down and have for years.  I always, always eat breakfast.  My recent regime is one 6oz of Yogurt and 2 Slices of Earthgrains Wheat Berry Bread with real butter on them.  I make 2 slices of toast and Lily always has 1/4 slice.  She eats her fourth of slice and then goes to her dog dish to eat her Science Diet food for Mature Dogs.

I probably make at least 3-4 decent dinner meals a week.  The rest of the time I will snack on yogurt, cheese sticks, fruits and vegetables, frozen yogurt and smoked turkey deli slice with a bit of mayonaise.

So what is missing?  Lunch time!  Maybe it would be a good idea to start doing this.  I don’t want anything heavy because I can get sleepy.  Why not soup?  Not out of the can but soup I make from scratch?  I used to do it all the time.

The problem was the aftermath.  You see I would make maybe three different soups at a time.  I am chopping up veggies so I might as well, right?  Wrong.  Thinking I am so smart to cook in bulk like this and by the time I have got the marathon of peeling, slicing, and dicing all my vegetables you can see I have a big project