On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 09:29:52 -0500, FERRANTE
> wrote:

>I am doing something wrong? I go to the store, spent $80, and two days
>later, I am looking for something to make a meal, and it is not there.
>I am obviously doing something wrong. I have never went to the store
>with a weekly meal plan.
>
>What methods do you use when shopping for the week? I thought about
>getting a couple boxes of cereal and milk, bread, butter, and
>breakfast is taken care of. Then lunch and dinner. Sounds simple. Is
>it?

I sit down with a couple of cookbooks and plan 6 evenings worth of
dinners (I allow one evening for leftovers or going out), plus lunch
on Sunday. This makes me feel virtuous because I actually use my
cookbooks :-), and it certainly broadens my cooking horizons. Then on
Saturday morning I go to the farmer's market and buy the meat,
vegetables, fruit and cheese I need, and I then go to a small
supermarket for fish, cream, yogurts, butter, etc.
The basics (flour, sugar, pasta, ...) I buy on the net and get
delivered about once every other month.
I devised the system 10 years ago, when I had my first son, and as
it's very convenient, I stick to it.

Nathalie in Switzerland