What's for Dinner?

Here is a brief excerpt from my day via text message...

SCOTT:  How are kids?

ME: Fine enough.

SCOTT: Good

ME: I'm having them plan out the menu for the month.  They each get a week to be in charge of.  Just as a heads up, we're going to be having a ton of mac and cheese in august.

SCOTT:  Hahahahaha.  That's fine.

ME: Maybe they'll OD on it and we'll never have to have it again.

SCOTT:  Hahaha.

I think I've said it before, but I'll say it again -- planning the menu for the month is one chore that I dread doing and procrastinate as long as possible.  Mostly because there's not much rewarding in it.  There are only a handful of meals that EVERYONE will eat and like, anyway, and most nights end up with at least one meltdown over what I've made for dinner and I just get sick of hearing who hates what.

So, knowing I needed to go grocery shopping today, I came up with the brilliant plan of farming the planning out to the kids!  I gave each of the 4 older ones a week to fill out, and told them to go ahead and pencil in whatever they wanted to eat for dinner on those nights.  The result?  Hopefully everyone will be a whole lot happier at dinnertime.  Although, I have a sneaking suspicion that mac and cheese 3 times in one month won't be quite as exciting as they're thinking.  Hahahaha.  :)

Jane's {birthday} week -- she had a hard time deciding whether to have chicken nuggets or Mac and Cheese for her big day.  In the end the mac-a-doodles won out.

{It's way too hard to read from this picture, but just in case you're wondering what the other kids planned, here it is:

Ethan -- Taco Salad, Mac and Cheese, Pizza

Grace -- Lemon Pepper Chicken, Mac and Cheese, Cereal Night {for Alex's birthday meal -- he loves him some Life}, Hamburgers, and Salad

Sophie -- Sloppy Joe's, Jumbalaya, Spaghetti, and Gumbo

Quite the menu!  Right??  Hahahaha.}