Prisbrey Gals

So in a response to your help request.  I have to first say that I HATE menu planning.  It is so hard to sit and rack my brain of what to make, don't mind the cooking just coming up with WHAT to cook drives me nuts.   However experimenting with/without this for 11+ years of marriage, I've learned that having a PLAN is much easier for my family and the flow of my week, so I HAVE to do one.   I make my plan on Saturday mostly.  As far as go to meals, I don't know we have lots of Mexican and Italian.  But I wanted to share this, got the idea from Food Nanny which I like, I don't do exactly what she says but I like the idea of "themes" and that that make me "remember" my recipes under that theme and helps with the planning.

So choose 1 night a week from the following themes: (right now I'm doing soup at least 1 day a week)
-Chicken
-Beef
-Meatless/Breakfast for Dinner
- Pizza
-Soup
-crockpot

-grill

Here is my plan this week
S- Beef-Hamburgers
M-Soup- Wild Rice Soup
T- Crockpot -turkey roast
W-Meatless- Alfredo pasta
R-Chicken-chicken Tacos
F-Pizza Night
S-Don't usually plan for Saturday we go out or have dinner with friends or leftovers or super simple

If I'm having a hard time with the above themes I also might try to plan by carb because that sparks new ideas. As follows:
potato
rice
noodles
tortilla
pizza crust

Anyway hopefully that might help or maybe not but I would like you to post your 5 meals you keep making over and over as you say, so I can see what they are!

Love,
Rachel