How difficult for you to plan a meal?

It can get a bit frustrating, being only one person that has to think of a new meal to make every night. I usually just buy what ever meat is on sale and then I decide what I am going to cook by what ever meat that we have in the freezer, and I like to think of new things to fix. I actually enjoy learning how to cook different dishes from different countries and I have this large wonderful cookbook with step by step instructions on about 20 dishes each from about 10 different countries, that book has been wonderful in helping me learn how to make different things from different countries.

It is very diffucult to plan anything for me and my husband I find myself always cooking almost the same thing every week.Do you find your self doing the same?You always want to make or try something different but basically it usully always comes down to the same thing every week for me.Do you have any suggesstions on anything different to cook?

Hi Aira,

Yes you are perfectly right, planning a meal in the house
really too difficult because we have to prepare the foods
for the breakfast, dinner, and Lunch. So we need to prepare the foods
with great taste and at the same time we need to make them some thing
different in every day, so choosing the dish and taste of dish would
be very tough and also it would need a really good skills in order to have
the entire satisfaction in the whole family. So I am preparing my foods
in the home and mostly from the European dish and have learn from the Net
cooking.

Have a wonderful day.

This is a very good question. I find that myself I cook most of the meals that I know already that my husband likes. If I do that all the time, then it can get boring. I look sometimes at the recipes on the Food Channel cooking shows and even if I don't make the dish exactly like they do, it gives me inspiration to make something new and different for dinner.

Then I introduce this new dish to my husband. He is always honest with me. If he likes it, he will ask me to please make it again. If he doesn't like it so much, I just forget that recipe. Most of the time, I cook pretty simple foods with the ingredients that we both like. Also, when you get older some of the spices you can eat when you are young are not agreeable to your body and will give you stomach upset. So, I stay away from foods that are too spicy.

I cook all the time. We do not go out to a restaurant except for very special events. It does become a very difficult task to figure out all the meals by yourself. Suggest a recipe you have found and see what the reaction is from your family. That's about the best suggestion I can think of. Happy Cooking!

I am not the one who does it. Yet I notice that it's been a problem with the one doing it. I bet it's really hard.

If it were only me, I would cook whatever I feel like eating at the moment. Sometimes I would crave some food and rush to the supermarket to buy the ingredients and cook it. We can't keep stock because it's not our way here.

We usually buy what's good for 1-2 days meat and not have all the ingredients ready so we always stick to the basic dishes.

Very difficult... Honestly we probably only plan maybe 2 meals a week. Otherwise it's whatever we can find we cook! lol...

I find that the easiest meals to plan for are lunch and dinner as in our houshole we cook enough food the night before for dinner, that we can have it the next day for lunch.

We find that the simple meals are often the best tasting ones and we bought alot of quick meal cook books. I like to use the crockpot alot as it is easy to cook and the food always comes out great. As for breakfast it is usual the simple stuff like eggs, bread and cereal which we just stock up on at the start of the week.

We find it best to do the shopping on a sunday night so that we can plan the meals for the week so we know each day what we are going to cook for dinner, and to spice things up a little i like to search the internet for fresh and new ideas

To plan a meal for me is not difficult at all. I usually like to prepare something that is going to be simple and since I only have to prepare for one person I usually already know what I am going to prepare. I will plan out my meals on Saturday for the whole week and get the ingredients so that I will not have to go to the grocery store during the week.

I am also in-charge of our daily meal preparation and usually, I don't have much time to make a list everyday. I usually plan one day before or the day itself. Most of the time, I just purchase the food that I am going to prepare when I am done at work and is going home. I know it's not best but what can a single parent do being alone? It's difficult for me but it's part of life.

Actually, i dont find it that difficult because we dont really plan...We normally buy fresh food that we like to eat and whoever has the time to cook does the cooking. We don't really set plans because it depends on our moods and whoever is at home to cook.

We do have cravings and that's what we cook from time to time but preparing a meal plan per se, well, we tried that and we ended up not sticking to it because we wanted something else that day.