"sf" > wrote in message
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> On Tue, 02 Nov 2010 21:49:32 -0400, Dave Smith
> > wrote:
>
>> Apparently my grandmother had a weekly menu plan, with a particular dish
>> for each night of the week. The old girl only had to know how to cook
>> seven dinners.
>
> I will never understand that style. My grandparents did that and my
> mother (who never did have much of a repertoire) did it in her later
> years. If I start doing that, I'll know it's time to check myself
> into an old folks home.

I do it now for a couple of days. We have either pizza or macaroni and
cheese a couple of times a week. Occasionally we'll have cheese enchiladas
or nachos instead. But always a cheese meal.