Meal Planning

I've been most successful in the past by planning dinners first.   Make enough and you can have lunches ready to go for the next day!

As a working mom, I don't have nearly the amount of time that'd I would like to sift through magazines and  cookbooks for new ideas.  So when a friend told me about The Six O'Clock Scramble, it sounded like just the thing I needed.  Aviva will email you a newsletter every week with 5 dinners that are easy to prepare and healthy.  My ONLY gripe is that most of the dinners will provide you with your "red" and "green" servings for the day.  Not a lot of color variety, so that's where the other meals and snacks will be filling in.

For this week we have the following:

Tuesday:  Chili con Barley, Garlic Cheese Bread, Baked Sweet Potato Fries
Wednesday:  Spicy Shrimp with Cheesy Grits, Steamed Broccoli
Thursday:  Gnocchi with Artichokes and Sun-dried Tomatoes, Steamed Squash
Friday:  Pizza

From there, Pebbles and I went grocery shopping and picked up:
Red Grapes
Tangelos
Bananas
YoBaby Blueberry Yogurt
Whole & Skim Milk

So just looking, we have reds, greens, blues, oranges, yellows!  I'm a little concerned that we're heavy on the fruit and light on veggies, but we'll see how the week goes.