Comments on: Meal Plan Your Way To Stress-Free Dinners http://www.mabelhood.com/index.php/2010/02/meal-plan-your-way-to-stress-free-dinners/ The Mabelhood is the sum of all blogs, combining posts from Mabel Labels' bloggers Julie Cole, Caitlin Madden and a cast of guest bloggers. The Mabelhood documents the daily dramas of a group of people raising families and a label making business, plus everything else in-between. Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:38:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Tanna http://www.mabelhood.com/index.php/2010/02/meal-plan-your-way-to-stress-free-dinners/comment-page-1/#comment-4601 Tanna Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:47:44 +0000 http://www.mabelhood.com/?p=1771#comment-4601 Sara, That is a hard one, as I am not the cook in the family. My oldest is 9 and we just got him to the point where he will try new foods and eat vegetables. Fruit is still out of the question. We give him a tiny portion of veggies and he has to eat them before he gets up. He has learned to get them over with. Hubby is a healthy eater so I feel for you when you deal with two that are anti-veg. It took us a while to work with our son. The other two love veggies because they were never given the option to not eat them like I did with our first. My daughter asks for broccoli for dinner! Let me see what meals I can put together after I talk to a few people. This will be an interesting topic. Sara, That is a hard one, as I am not the cook in the family. My oldest is 9 and we just got him to the point where he will try new foods and eat vegetables. Fruit is still out of the question. We give him a tiny portion of veggies and he has to eat them before he gets up. He has learned to get them over with. Hubby is a healthy eater so I feel for you when you deal with two that are anti-veg.

It took us a while to work with our son. The other two love veggies because they were never given the option to not eat them like I did with our first. My daughter asks for broccoli for dinner!

Let me see what meals I can put together after I talk to a few people. This will be an interesting topic.

]]> By: Carrie http://www.mabelhood.com/index.php/2010/02/meal-plan-your-way-to-stress-free-dinners/comment-page-1/#comment-4522 Carrie Sat, 13 Feb 2010 18:39:08 +0000 http://www.mabelhood.com/?p=1771#comment-4522 Okay Tanna, I have another one for you! Books! Namely kids books. We have a lot of them. And I love having them available for my kids all the time but all I've managed to do is have big messy baskets full of books in several rooms of the house. Toddlers just like dumping them out, and the ones at the bottom get forgotten. What to do, what to do? Okay Tanna, I have another one for you! Books! Namely kids books. We have a lot of them. And I love having them available for my kids all the time but all I’ve managed to do is have big messy baskets full of books in several rooms of the house. Toddlers just like dumping them out, and the ones at the bottom get forgotten. What to do, what to do?

]]> By: Sara http://www.mabelhood.com/index.php/2010/02/meal-plan-your-way-to-stress-free-dinners/comment-page-1/#comment-4503 Sara Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:33:27 +0000 http://www.mabelhood.com/?p=1771#comment-4503 I would so love to be able to plan my meals ahead, but I have 3 issues: 1) a daughter who dances 4 nights and a week, has a busy social schedule on the weeknight she doesn't, and works various schedules on Thursday nights, Saturday and Sunday (anywhere from 6 am to 12 midnight). 2) a son, who at 11, will still not touch a vegetable or fruit (including tomato sauce unless it's on pizza or in ketchup!) and who picks at anything that isn't chicken fingers, macaroni (not the homemade kind EWWW!), hamburgers, quesadillas (cheese only), pancakes or waffles. 3) a husband who is almost as anti-veg as his son (corn, peas, green beans and that's about it). I have such a hard time finding recipes that everyone will eat, and I'm so tired of the same old dishes! If anyone has suggestions, PLEASE HELP! I would so love to be able to plan my meals ahead, but I have 3 issues:

1) a daughter who dances 4 nights and a week, has a busy social schedule on the weeknight she doesn’t, and works various schedules on Thursday nights, Saturday and Sunday (anywhere from 6 am to 12 midnight).

2) a son, who at 11, will still not touch a vegetable or fruit (including tomato sauce unless it’s on pizza or in ketchup!) and who picks at anything that isn’t chicken fingers, macaroni (not the homemade kind EWWW!), hamburgers, quesadillas (cheese only), pancakes or waffles.

3) a husband who is almost as anti-veg as his son (corn, peas, green beans and that’s about it).

I have such a hard time finding recipes that everyone will eat, and I’m so tired of the same old dishes!

If anyone has suggestions, PLEASE HELP!

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]]> By: Melanie http://www.mabelhood.com/index.php/2010/02/meal-plan-your-way-to-stress-free-dinners/comment-page-1/#comment-4496 Melanie Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:59:49 +0000 http://www.mabelhood.com/?p=1771#comment-4496 I have been meal planning for 2 years now and LOVE IT. It has saved my sanity. If anyone is interested in sharing weekly plans let me know, I am happy to send over ideas of weeks that have worked for us (I save them all so that in a pinch, I can just pull out a previous meal week plan and I'm off to the races) I have been meal planning for 2 years now and LOVE IT. It has saved my sanity. If anyone is interested in sharing weekly plans let me know, I am happy to send over ideas of weeks that have worked for us (I save them all so that in a pinch, I can just pull out a previous meal week plan and I’m off to the races)

]]> By: Shaz http://www.mabelhood.com/index.php/2010/02/meal-plan-your-way-to-stress-free-dinners/comment-page-1/#comment-4495 Shaz Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:42:38 +0000 http://www.mabelhood.com/?p=1771#comment-4495 I love planning our meals. {I do a weekly menu} I even plan our snacks like : wing on LOST night and Hagen Daz on Movies night! The kids love that popcorn is in regular stock for making the basement into a movie theater. I love planning our meals. {I do a weekly menu} I even plan our snacks like : wing on LOST night and Hagen Daz on Movies night! The kids love that popcorn is in regular stock for making the basement into a movie theater.

]]> By: Mr Lady http://www.mabelhood.com/index.php/2010/02/meal-plan-your-way-to-stress-free-dinners/comment-page-1/#comment-4492 Mr Lady Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:53:00 +0000 http://www.mabelhood.com/?p=1771#comment-4492 I plan every meal, every week, period. I actually have a monthly calendar that I plan, but I shop weekly because A) I know when what goes on sale and B) the grocery store is, literally, the only "me" time I get every week. If I don't plan and shop once a week, I spend double what I need to, at least. Really, I counted once. It was kind of gross how much I spent without a plan. I plan every meal, every week, period. I actually have a monthly calendar that I plan, but I shop weekly because A) I know when what goes on sale and B) the grocery store is, literally, the only “me” time I get every week. If I don’t plan and shop once a week, I spend double what I need to, at least.

Really, I counted once. It was kind of gross how much I spent without a plan.

]]> By: Carrie http://www.mabelhood.com/index.php/2010/02/meal-plan-your-way-to-stress-free-dinners/comment-page-1/#comment-4491 Carrie Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:01:58 +0000 http://www.mabelhood.com/?p=1771#comment-4491 how I long to be sensible enough to create and stick to a meal plan!!! how I long to be sensible enough to create and stick to a meal plan!!!

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