I don't do a lot of meal planning and I know I should. It is something I did in the past, and just got out of the habit - I usually just don't have things together when I go shopping, so I tend to just do a little shopping here and then a little there - just to get out of the house. Now that the days have been so gray and rainy, I'm less prone to want to venture outside and then am stuck to find something to throw together for dinner!
So now I'm going to go shopping on the day that my husband gets paid - on the 15th and 30th of the month. I do not care to go shopping on the 15th of November since it is a Sunday (Oy too many shoppers) so I will probably do it on the 16th and join all the little old ladies going shopping Monday morning. :-) Which usually works out really well until Katie decides to belt out an ear piercing screech an then I get dirty looks from them. Oops!
I'm also going to start to try to make our meals budget meals except for one splurge a week - probably our Saturday or Sunday meal. I'd also like to make as few prepackaged meals as I can - I rely on too much hamburger helper and grilled cheese. There is nothing wrong with grilled cheese on busy nights like Tuesdays and Wednesdays for us when we don't roll in the door until 7:30 pm, but the rest of the week we need better meals.
We'll see how things go on Friday! What are you making for dinner?