Our house policy is, if you don't like what I'm cooking, you can have a) any leftover plain pasta that might be in the fridge or b) a peanut butter sandwich. We also require taste-testing for new things; the backup plan is mostly used at this point for things Casper honestly doesn't like (like, for some reason, quesadillas!) and we do. It was used more regularly during picky phases.
One thing that helps us with the meal planning is making a list of the things we can make quickly and easily and that we mostly like, kept on the fridge. Then when we are planning for the week we can check the list and realize, oh, we haven't made Indian Turkey in a long time, let's do that. We tend to have a couple things we eat nearly every week (right now, boboli pizza crust with canned olives, and black bean quesadillas, for which we now buy an extra avocado because Dillo eats a whole one). A lot of our recipes we have the ingredients memorized, but until you get to that stage write the cookbook and page number next to the thing on your list.
Our top 4 cookbooks are: Moosewood Cooks at Home (veggie, lots of stews with canned beans, mostly very fast but sometimes a lot of chopping), Whole Foods cookbook (healthy, not as fast), Madhur Jaffrey's Quick and Easy Indian cooking, Joy of Cooking.
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Date: 2009-04-20 03:45 pm (UTC)One thing that helps us with the meal planning is making a list of the things we can make quickly and easily and that we mostly like, kept on the fridge. Then when we are planning for the week we can check the list and realize, oh, we haven't made Indian Turkey in a long time, let's do that. We tend to have a couple things we eat nearly every week (right now, boboli pizza crust with canned olives, and black bean quesadillas, for which we now buy an extra avocado because Dillo eats a whole one). A lot of our recipes we have the ingredients memorized, but until you get to that stage write the cookbook and page number next to the thing on your list.
Our top 4 cookbooks are: Moosewood Cooks at Home (veggie, lots of stews with canned beans, mostly very fast but sometimes a lot of chopping), Whole Foods cookbook (healthy, not as fast), Madhur Jaffrey's Quick and Easy Indian cooking, Joy of Cooking.