Menu

[Matt In Oklahoma]

looking at something here and trying to come up with an answer. i might be overthinking it though which i have been known to do:)
I guess the question is does anyone have a set menu of what you will eat when living strictly on your preps?
The Army and several other places have a 21 day menu that rotates and can be slightly altered depending on the availibilty of certain items. It gives a baseline, say tonight is spagehtti and corn and we run our of spagehtti sauce so it becomes pasta and the neighbors cat kinda deal but the baseline is set.
I was considering pre-doing something along those lines because i believe we will have enough to do without thinking of "what's for dinner?"
Dunno, thoughts? i know many here have even lived on their preps so sound off and help a brother out

[610Alpha]

looking at something here and trying to come up with an answer. i might be overthinking it though which i have been known to do:)
I guess the question is does anyone have a set menu of what you will eat when living strictly on your preps?
The Army and several other places have a 21 day menu that rotates and can be slightly altered depending on the availibilty of certain items. It gives a baseline, say tonight is spagehtti and corn and we run our of spagehtti sauce so it becomes pasta and the neighbors cat kinda deal but the baseline is set.
I was considering pre-doing something along those lines because i believe we will have enough to do without thinking of "what's for dinner?"
Dunno, thoughts? i know many here have even lived on their preps so sound off and help a brother out

I couldn't agree more with you...my wife kind of does this now....she plans out the meals for the month and bases our shopping list for Sams from it and she makes enough to last several days so that all i have to do is reheat leftovers. Saves us both time.

[jimmycthemd]

We do something similar, but for two weeks. We make up a menu and shop for it. We cook on Sunday afternoon for the week so that, when we get home from work, the microwave gets a workout. We also buy ahead on meat, etc., several months ahead so we can draw the main stuff from the freezer/pantry. Our bi-weekly shopping trips are mainly for fresh stuff.

[kappydell]

many cooks automatically do something like that on a weekly basis. at my house, sunday is chicken, monday is meatless, tuesday is pork, wednesday is ground beef, thursday is budget, friday is fish/seafood, and saturday is beef other then ground. Then one can subdivide. With thought, two or three weeks menus can be made up. Even in a prep set up, where the roast chicken morphs into chicken TVP in chicken gravy over rice, the general outline stays the same. works for me.

[Gus14]

I cant say we have a menu we go by as our diet is varies according to season and availability. Last month was salmon fishing season so we had a lot of fish over the last few weeks. Now that hunting season is here we will be eating a lot of venison and due to the slaughter of three of our hogs, we will also be having plenty of pork (in fact, tonight is pork tenderloin for dinner).
Spring time brings the use of young vegitation like leeks and fiddleheads where we have a lot of soups and vegetable dishes. Of course late summer and early fall we end up filling up on harvest from the gardens and we end up eating geese and squirrels.
We do however have a strict list of items we buy from when we re-stock. First items are the must haves like flour, sugar, salt, rice, beans, spices, oils, vinegars, etc. We dont eat much in the way of instant foods, processed foods, or engineered foods. We stay, for the most part, with real food but we do have a pallet of easy mac because if the kids dont get their mac-n-cheese fix then there aint much sense in preppin.