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Craig took this when we went apple picking. It has nothing to do with the post, but it's so pretty I had to use it.


A fairly straight forward way to keep yourself on track when you're trying to change your eating habits is to plan ahead. It sounds easy enough, right? Truthfully, it can kind of be a pain in the rear. And you know what they say about making plans (actually, I don't know. I tried to google it, but couldn't find anything...).

Anyway, I've been planning out our weekly meals for a while now. I plan the dinners, generally 4 to 6 servings each meal and then we take leftovers for lunch. Sometimes we stick to it, more often than not we don't. As we try to get further away from convenience and prepackaged foods, I thought it would be helpful if I published our menu every Sunday (I'm clearly off to a late start this week). Then at the end of the week, I'll check in and let you know how we did. If there are any recipes that we loved, we'll share them with you. Hopefully this will hold us a little more accountable and maybe you'll even get an idea or two from the menus.

Here we go, the first "official" weekly menu:
Meal 1: Red lentil bake, radish and corn salad, green salad
Meal 2: Pork chops, spinach and beet greens, orzo with butter
Meal 3: Beets with tahini, rice with red onion, green salad
Meal 4: Fennel and celery soup, wild rice salad
Meal 5: Polenta with turkey sausage in tomato sauce, green salad

For snacks, we still have tons of apples from when we went apple picking, and of course we have our homemade granola bars.

Sounds pretty good, doesn't it?
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