How often do you serve a particular item?

[sunnydays]

I do a weekly menu for the daycare based on the meals I prepare for my family for dinner the night before. I try to vary it week to week, but definitely some of the fruits and veggies are repeated in a week since I am not going to buy five different kinds of fruit and have some go to waste. I also often make grilled cheese sandwiches on Fridays since everyone likes it and it is easy. Other than that, everything is prepared the day before and is always a hot meal such as soup, quiche, pasta, rice, etc.

[Spixie33]

I guess I have a lot of repeats week to week.

There is usually rice and chicken once a week
usually lasagna or Spaghetti once a week
Then soup every 2 weeks
Some of my kids are partimers but the girl who is full time will sometimes get the same lunch two days in a row. If I make a big Lasagna and my family doesn't finish it in two suppers and is still left then we use it until it is done. I try to do the 'waste not, want not'

and snacks are pretty much the same things rotated through.....crackers and fruit, yogurt and fruit, cucumbers and crackers with cheese, cookies and applesauce.....prett y much always along the same lines

No complaints from the parents or kids but sometimes I bore myself. lol I occassionally try something new like perogies with veggies for lunch or roast beef and egg noodles but usually anything new I introduce gets wasted and the kids don't like it