Hello,
I'm trying to be good & plan my week's menu in advance. Thing is, I seem to be a disaster when it actually comes to shopping for more than 1 meal
What happens is I end up coming home, having spent a fortune, but dont seem to have any full 'meals'.
So I'm back to trying to get the hang of this (again) and just wondered is there any online tool that will help me?
What would be fantastic is something like the Jamie Oliver DS game - where by clicking on a recipe, it gives you the list of ingredients needed and you can then go through it and tick off what you already have in the cupboard.
Even if I had to initially input my own recipes this would be v handy as its usually the same 15 or so dinners that I'd be making anyway.
Failing that, I think maybe something that I could color code might be useful. Ex, on a spreadsheet all the veg is yellow, all the meat is pink, all the grains blue, that type of thing. At least that way I could easily pick out what I need in each aisle or at each counter in the supermarket.
I am aware that this is fairly basic stuff, and it is rather embarrassing to have to ask for help but my pride has cost me too much up to now
Any suggestions?
I'm trying to be good & plan my week's menu in advance. Thing is, I seem to be a disaster when it actually comes to shopping for more than 1 meal
What happens is I end up coming home, having spent a fortune, but dont seem to have any full 'meals'.
So I'm back to trying to get the hang of this (again) and just wondered is there any online tool that will help me?
What would be fantastic is something like the Jamie Oliver DS game - where by clicking on a recipe, it gives you the list of ingredients needed and you can then go through it and tick off what you already have in the cupboard.
Even if I had to initially input my own recipes this would be v handy as its usually the same 15 or so dinners that I'd be making anyway.
Failing that, I think maybe something that I could color code might be useful. Ex, on a spreadsheet all the veg is yellow, all the meat is pink, all the grains blue, that type of thing. At least that way I could easily pick out what I need in each aisle or at each counter in the supermarket.
I am aware that this is fairly basic stuff, and it is rather embarrassing to have to ask for help but my pride has cost me too much up to now
Any suggestions?