August 2009 Menu

Don't worry. I haven't lost interest in this little blog. It's these kids. They keep me so busy in the summer. We've been having a blast. When they are back at school I will get back to this blog. I already have ideas in the works.

Here is our August menu. I am trying to get the most leftovers while still being realistic. Once a week wasn't working out to be enough, twice a week was sometimes leaving us with too little leftovers, so my husband thinks that we can have leftovers every 4 days. So I'm giving it a shot having mindfully filled the 3 days between leftover days with meals that seem leftover-worthy. I may not get to posting the recipes so if there is a recipe that you want just email me and I will get it to you. Oh and as always, asterisk are new recipes and purple meals are slow cooker recipes.

Laziness is the Goal

This July I have been lazy. Very lazy. I never came up with a new menu. I was away for a week. I have not been doing all the proactive things that I usually like to do to keep on top of things. However, I have not become unorganized and chaos has not taken over. How can this be? I have been monthly planning long enough that once it was obvious that I was not going to get around to creating a new menu for this month I simply pulled last years July menu and roughly followed it. Of course I could have redone last month too if I wanted but I like to mix it up a bit more. This is the perfect example of why it pays off to put in some extra time and effort to get really organized. If you get organized in a way that is truly functional and works for you then you can turn on autopilot and get lazy later. Here is the 2008 menu I followed for this July: