What's Your Meal Plan 'Type'? - Percolate Kitchen

When you plan your meals for the week, it usually looks a little like...

Just... like... inside your brain? Like, you just try to *remember* what you're making for dinner this week.

A quick scratch on a post-it note or or a half-written list on the magnetic notepad on your fridge

When you get the chance, you write it on the meal plan calendar you have specifically for this purpose. But sometimes, you forget.

Beautifully color-coded, hanging in a prominent place in your kitchen. This is basically the bible when it comes to what your family will be eating.

What does your freezer currently contain?

The essentials: ice cream and pizza. And half-wrapped bags of fruit for smoothies. Or maybe that's a bag of freezer-burned chicken breast? Who can tell.

A few containers of soup you made in.... 2018. They're still good, right?

A few bags of fruit for smoothies, a couple extra containers of lasagna you made last month, and maybe some protein that was on sale recently.

Everything is ordered by type of dish, separated by meal time, and there's also the half a cow you go halfsies on with your neighbor every year.

Quick! You forgot about the potluck you promised you'd bring a dish for. What do you show up with?

A half-open bottle of wine and whatever snacks your kids haven't demolished yet. Goldfish and merlot go well together, right?

You throw together a quick salad and viniagrette with whatever you have on hand in the crisper drawer of the fridge.

You blend together a quick hummus in the food processor and pick up a pre-packaged container of sliced carrots and celery on the way.

Who forgets potluck plans!? You made lasagna this morning and the garlic bread is already in the oven.

When you walk into your kitchen at the end of a workday and start getting dinner on the table, you feel:

Overwhelmed and wondering if you can get away with calling for pizza... again.

Dreading a long cooking process, but you can't bear to waste the ingredients you bought at the start of the week.

Not in the mood to make the recipe you'd planned on, so you throw something together with what you already have on hand.

You feel like "I GOT THIS". Your ingredients are prepped and ready to go, you've got enough time to cook, and you're pretty confident your family is gonna love this meal.

What's Your Meal Plan 'Type'?

You're 'Stretched Mom-Strong'!