Operation Organization

Well, I'd like to say that I spent my weekend organizing my chore list & schedules and menu planning, but I sadly (well, not really sadly) did not. My husband & I took the kids out in the joggers (we have a double & a single) for a long run on Sat morning, then he & I had some time to ourselves that afternoon & early evening. Yesterday was church and then we had a good family day.

However, I did figure out laundry and found that if I start it on either Friday or Sat evening, it is done within 24 hours (as long as I stay on top of it). I prefer to have 24 hrs of laundry to spreading it out over the entire week. I do have an awesome new detergent for workout clothes & towels that I'll share in another post - I'm going to start buying it in bulk. It's AWESOME!

Now for menu planning/dinners. I organized our meals & prep as below. The red beans & rice for today & Wed are already in the crockpot. Going to the grocery store on my way home from work was wonderful! I was in and out in less than 45 minutes!

Monday: red beans & rice (prep was soaking the beans, & chopping onions, etc). Now, the beans will cook all day and I'll fix rice when I get home (shouldn't take more than 30 minutes for me to get dinner on the table tonight)

Tuesday: this is a freebie this week b/c we're going out w/some friends who are moving.

Wednesday: leftovers from Monday - this will have to be quick b/c we have about an hour from the time we get home until we leave for church

Thursday: baked chicken & ceasar salad. I'll do all of my chicken prep before work (that should take about 20mins) so that all I have to do is put the chicken in the oven and make the salad while it's baking. This will be about 45 minutes from home to table b/c the chicken has to bake that long

Friday: pineapple baked ham steak & lemon sauteed green beans (both of these receipes are from the awesome Weight Watchers cookbook - love it!). I'll trim & cook the green beans while the ham steak is in the oven. Should take about 45 minutes from home to table.

Okay - so we'll see how meals for this week work out. My next task is to figure out a way to get in longer workouts in the morning before work. This is going to be tough but the answer is easy - get up earlier....sigh. I'll tackle that next week! ;)