Some Menu Plans Are Easier Than Others

I’ve written a lot of nice things about menu plans.  How they keep me organized, how they help with food shopping, how I couldn’t live without them.  But sometimes menu plans are so hard to write!  Sometimes I am just not feeling it.

This has been one of those times.  Our CSA pickups don’t resume for another 3 weeks and local produce is still just beginning to switch over to spring.  I haven’t cooked much over the past couple weeks and it’s hard to get back in the routine of spending real time in the kitchen.  And, despite the fact that I have literally thousands of recipes in my Evernote account, I just wasn’t feeling anything.   Summer veggies cannot come soon enough.  Nor can inspiration.

Short version: I spent an inappropriately long time on this menu, and I’m still not happy with it.  Perhaps I’ll find some mid-week inspiration and make some last minute changes.  If not, at least I have a plan I can work with.

Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
					2 tuna melts salad	3 ham (frozen from Easter), baked potatoes, salad
4 Cod Fish Tacos, Ginger Beergaritas (How Sweet It Is)	5 Baked Chili Brown Rice	6 leftover baked chili brown rice	7 Spinach and Feta Crostata (from The Meat Lover’s Meatless Cookbook )	8 leftover crostata	9 creamy polenta with mushrooms and tomato sauce	10 eggs, of some sort.  Frittata?
11 Chickpea Pot Pie	12 leftover pot pie	13 dinner meeting – hot dogs and hamburgers	14 Veggie Red Coconut Curry, over rice (Serious Eats)	15 soba noodle soup (Savvy Eats)	16 dinner out