What's for dinner (and breakfast, and lunch. . . )?

Planning meals has been one of the easiest ways for me to keep my eating in control. Before we moved to the new house in November, I was really good at meal planning. I'd make my list every week, get what I needed and would never be staring in the fridge at 5PM asking myself what I could make from American cheese and OJ.

My arsenal includes these:


I love the WW magazines, and I have their most recent cookbook. However, I also love my crockpot. For some reason, the WW company doesn't share a lot of crockpot recipes, even though using your crockpot is a great way to reduce fat in your cooking! I found this "Fix it and Forget It Lightly" at the grocery store one day and have recently rediscovered it. For tonight's dinner I made a lovely sweet potato-apple-sausage bake.




The plus side to this is the sweet potatoes created a wonderful mash that I could feed to my 8 month old while we sat and ate!

The point to my story is I need to get back into doing this. I planned out meals for last week, but I always neglect to plan for lunch. Lunch is a big problem. So my goal for this week is to plan lunches and dinners in the hopes that I'm able to answer that question every time a meal comes around-- "What's for dinner?"