Meal Planning For Single Parents With Young Children - Need Suggestions!

[smellbug 43]

This is a great thread!!! I will be done with my last but appointment at the end of this month and hope to be sleeved soon after and have been thinking about this for a while.....got some great ideas thanks!!! Is there any websites anyone can recommend for weekly cooking menu ect I figure I can star freezing little meals for myself and get the kids in on the healthy eating too because undortunatley my 12yearold has mommys bad eating habits

I love the website skinnytaste.com to get recipes from. She is a lady who does weight watchers. All is the recipes have a break down of calories, carbs, and protien. I made a lot of her recipes pre-op and everyone liked them. I am 3 weeks post-op and not on real food yet but I love her food. Good luck

[funkeechiggen 135]

Update... I went to Super Target over the weekend and stocked up on meats for my kiddo's meals while I'm on liquid diet (starts next week, wow!). OH, have any of you tried using the ziploc "perfect portion" bags?! They are FAB for buying bulk meat items and them portioning it out to keep in freezer.

I've also ordered a toaster/convection oven from Walmart - woohoo!

I'm going to enlist my daughter's help in planning her dinner menus for the next several weeks! I'll post back here when we come up with a plan

[prnces228 18]

Single mom here too, my daughter is 4 and thank god she is not very picky because I worked my hardest to NOT have her take over my eating habits (she didn't even have a french fry until she was almost 4!!!! This seemed to have worked since she doesn't really like sweets and loves fruits and veggies :-) I didn't want her to have the struggles I have had!)

CHILI! Maybe for further down the road when you can eat it too but it was really the only thing I could get down when I started really eating food. Made it with Turkey and LOTS of Beans (protein) I lived on it for at least a week and my daughter loved it too! Also made a white bean chicken chili recently and we both loved that too!

[Lisa'slosinit 147]

awesome ideas !!!! love the teriayaki ckn !!!

[jac1970 39]

This looked good. Can make them up ahead of time. Maybe omit bread crumbs because of carbs... or change the kind of cheese for little kids

http://m.allrecipes.com/recipe/217151/blue-cheese-spinach-meat-loaf-muffins?ms=1&prop25=103018826&prop26=DailyDish&prop27=2013-01-13&prop28=DailyRecipe&prop29=FullRecipeLink&me=1