Do you plan meals in advance?

Question

And do you stick to it?.

I'm full of good intentions until I forget to take something out of the freezer and phone in delivery.

Answer 1

I've just had a bowl of bran flakes. Enough said.

Answer 2

Mrs Media does 80% of the meal planning.  When I have to travel and am left to my own devices, I'll usually plan to go out for dinner once or twice with colleagues.  There are usually a couple of "favorite places" I have where I'll grab a lunch (Five Guys comes to mind.)  However, for the rest of my meals, I run to the grocery store on my first day and buy eggs, bread, OJ, cheese, hot dogs & buns, peanut butter & jam, some soup, and a couple of snacks.  During the week, I'll fix all my own breakfasts and lunches and will have a couple of dinners that consist of hots and soup.  It's not that I plan out all those meals.  It's more a case of getting the cupboards stocked and then, when I'm hungry, decide what I feel like eating:  omelette, fried egg sandwich, grilled cheese, hots & soup, PB&J with a bowl of snacks, turkey and swiss sandwich, etc.  

So.. uh... yes I plan them... vaguely... and consume them at odd hours.  

Answer 3

Sort of.  Before I go shopping, both the wife and I make a list of 5 or six meals that we could prepare and put necessary ingredients on a list, add onto that list things like eggs, bacon, cereal, milk etc for breakfast and generic lunch meat and cheese.  So we have 10 to twelve meals we could cook, some generate leftovers, we may eat out if it is convenient. No food delivery where I live.  That gets us through until the next shopping day.  Probably 2 to 3 weeks.

God invented the microwave to compensate my bad memory for forgetting to take things out of the freezer.

Comments

I can't defrost anything in the microwave, it's just another one of my crazy brain farts. 

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My new microwave has an auto defrost feature. 

Answer 4

I made a few attempts to plan dinner meals in advance. However, I never stick to it because I would often crave something else. Or something came up one way or another. However, breakfast and lunch are easy for me to plan and stick to. My planned lunch is easy to pack and go. Most days I have some type of marinated cooked protein with grilled vegetables over mixed field greens that I put in a pita pocket bread when ready to eat. I drizzle my homemade olive oil and  red wine vinegar dressing with Italian herbs. 

Breakfast I eat quite early at home.  One or two eggs, one avocado, two slices of turkey or regular bacon. One slice of toast, a small glass of mango juice, and one coffee. The only thing that changes daily with breakfast is my egg styles. 

Above is my weekday breakfast and lunch plan that I'm very consistent with. Dinner and  weekends is an anything goes plan. Lol.

Answer 5

I try to but am not the best. Will try to be more consistent in the future.