History Trippin' 

We’ve had serious trouble with meals on the road.  With a smaller refrigerator and less storage space our options are: be much more organized and plan ahead or run to the grocery store every 2 or 3 days for food (which is not necessarily bad, think of all the fresh foods we could be eating).  Lazy as we are, and not really wanting to do either of those, we found a third option.  We’ve been eating out right and left!  Unfortunately, it’s killing our budget and our waistlines.  So I determined to find a way to solve this problem – to overcome my laziness and help save some money in the food department.  The answer…let someone else do the planning, for FREE!  I found menus4moms.com, a fabulous site run by a homeschooling mother (I love it when I can support other homeschoolers).  On this site you can register to have FREE weekly menus e-mailed to you, along with the recipes and the shopping list!  At first I was skeptical.  I don’t want to spend an hour every day cooking (there’s that lazy thing again) and I wasn’t sure we’d be able to store everything necessary for the week.  Plus, with 2 kids that can be a little snooty about unidentified “green stuff” in their food, I wasn’t sure if I’d be buying things that would go to waste or if dinner time would turn into a power struggle between me and my kids’ taste buds.  In the end, all of those worries were for nothing.  The boys have loved everything on the menu…everything.  Even the meals with unidentified green stuff.  They’ve sampled dishes that they haven’t eaten before and loved each of them.  I’m thrilled.  They’re quick and easy to make and don’t require a lot of fancy ingredients.  (I guess it’s obvious that I’m no gourmet cook.  Oh well.)  If you have the same problem, and often find yourself wondering what’s for dinner, check out this site.  It might be just what you need.