i heart my 2 week meal plan

saturday concluded our first run through our rotating 2-week menu and i can happily say that we were never once tempted to go out to eat. i think we correctly diagnosed our eating-out problem. in the past it would get to be dinner time and jeremy and i would just go back and forth:

• "what do you want for dinner?"
• "i don't know, what do you want?"
• "i don't care, you pick"
• "i don't care either, what do we have?"
• "i don't know"
• "how about ruby tuesday? (or whatever restaurant commercial we'd seen most recently)
• "ok"

and doing the 2-week shopping is awesome. i had a blast yesterday. i printed off a fresh copy of the standard shopping list and then took inventory, crossing off anything i did not need to buy for this 2-week block. i then pulled out the grocery store circular to see if the stuff i needed was on sale and jotted down sale prices next to the items on my list. finally, i sorted through my coupons and noted ones i could use. the actual shopping was a breeze, except for the fact that the store was crazy busy with holiday feast shoppers. i seriously saw no fewer than 4 older ladies pulling 2 shopping carts each through the store and the 2 parties in front of me in the check-out line each spent more than $400! insane.