Food Diary

[gcj]

yeah...a menu ahead of time is tough for me, too Parents always ask me this at the beginning and I tell them that if I tell you the day before...it's good. Usually I can do that because we usually have that nights leftovers the next day. But if we pig out at supper, I have to make something up...or BBQ season is tough, too. Leftover BBQ is dry
I always find something to whip up!

[bright sparks]

yeah...a menu ahead of time is tough for me, too Parents always ask me this at the beginning and I tell them that if I tell you the day before...it's good. Usually I can do that because we usually have that nights leftovers the next day. But if we pig out at supper, I have to make something up...or BBQ season is tough, too. Leftover BBQ is dry
I always find something to whip up!

Without offense, but how do you go on having enough leftovers to feed your dck?? How many do you care for and how much food do you cook in the evening to possibly have enough leftovers unless say you only have 2 dck's?? I much more prefer to cook once every 9 weeks, which gives me a 3 week menu plan, 3 times, which yes is a HUGE production over the course of usually a day and a night to make 15 meals x 3, but ensures that the kiddies eat extremely well, and that I dont have to prep and cook everyday. I couldn't fathom being able to find the time to cook a well balanced healthy nutritious meal at the same time as watching the kiddies. Maybe I'm just not that good at multi tasking but I couldn't chop veggies, prepare meat, watch the food cook safely while attending to the kids, unless I plopped them in front of the tv for an hour. It would take forever and I'd probably just end up feeding the daycare kids processed foods as I could open packages and just throw them in the oven. But thats not what I do.

[gcj]

Well, I have to cook dinner for my family, anyways....so, if I make stir-fry, I just make a BIG stir-fry. If it's spaghetti sauce, I make a lot of sauce. I cook for my family every night, so for me there's not much difference if I make enough for one meal, or take advantage of the fact that I'm already in the kitchen, so get more out of it.
I have 5 dcks. And I even make enough for husband to take to work and my son to take in a thermos to school.
Works for me. Reheat and serve the next day