I’m re-reading the book,  “More Hours In My Day”, of course I don’t know how I’m going to get more hours when I spend hours reading- but I digress.  The authors, Emilie Barnes and Sheri Torelli, write that we average making 750 meals a year.  So a meal plan is a must!  I have tried many times to make a menu but it never works out.

I decided to get serious about making a menu for this week.  Ha! what a joke!  Here’s how it actually went-

Monday- Fajitas with all the fixin’s- my son has Taekwondo that afternoon so I was going to grill the meat and veggies during the day and just re-heat everything when we got home.  I forgot to thaw the meat the day before, so it wasn’t ready to grill that afternoon.  Instead, I run into the store during Taekwondo and pick up an already made roast, instant mashed potatoes, and rolls.  I think the only thing that was edible were the rolls!

Tuesday- Try for Fajitas again.  We have a brownie meeting and a cub scout meeting tonight, so I was going to have everything ready to eat between the two.  My son gets off the bus and says he has a hole in the bottom of his tennis shoes and his socks got wet at recess!  So off to the mall we go and 5 stores later we still have no tennis shoes.  ( He has his father’s wide, hard to fit foot!)  We go straight to the first meeting and afterwards  rush home to eat chili dogs in 20 minutes before we’re off to cub scouts!

Wednesday-We were suppose to have the chili dogs tonight.  But instead we have to go to another mall to look for shoes because now you can see his socks through the bottom of the shoes!  We finally find one pair of shoes (less than $100!) that fit after going to 4 more stores.  It’ll be after 7 when we get home, so we eat Taco Bell at the mall!

Thursday- Cashew Chicken.  Tonight we’re finally able to eat the fajitas!  Even though the grill ran out of gas and I had to broil the meat.

Friday- Hamburgers and french fries.  No gas in the grill and no hamburger buns, so we’re having chef salads with a little bit of left over fajita meat on them.

I’ll try to make a menu work next week…  ’cause I’m tired this week!