Make the Meal Plan a Menu

I pinched this from Jenny Rosenstrach’s Dinner: A Love Story. In her book, it’s a journal — my version is printer paper on the fridge. It’s been a habit since (checks notes) 2014 (!!) and it helps organize everything from the grocery run to the social calendar… and can also become a log of the life that happens around the food, like friend visits, movies watched, that time you brought a baby home from the hospital, etc. Each week, the old menu gets hole-punched and put in a 3-ring binder. Comes in handy when you’re feeling nostalgic. Or when you can’t remember what food you like to cook in the final throes of summer and want to go to the archives for inspiration.