Confessions of a Cluttered Kitchen: Peer Pressure

Confession #2: Everybody's Doing It

In my quest to conquer the kitchen, I found myself in need of inspiration.  I've been perusing blogs of moms who have it together, and soaking up good ideas from Country Living and Better Homes and Gardens. 

I can't get enough of the great design ideas in the magazines.  They spark creativity and motivate me.  But if I read one more post about menu planning...

I have good intentions when it comes to meal planning:  every week I spend hours trying to piece together a menu of tasty dishes for the least amount of money.  Then I don't follow through.  Sometimes on purpose.

The Problem

I've given myself another time consuming task to procrastinate on, and I feel like in order to run a successful kitchen I must have a menu plan-because that's how all successful moms do it, isn't it?  

The Lesson

I need to face what isn't working, and menu planning doesn't work for me.

The Solution 

• 86 the menu plan and all it's time and space consumption.
• Return to my trusty method of purchasing ingredients and cooking creatively
• Find a productive use for this freed up time

There is a lot of great advice out there, and trying new methods is great.  I let peer pressure cause me to doubt my instincts though: my original way of feeding us and minimizing the grocery bill worked for us.  I had no reason to change it.  

Is there something about your home management plan that differs from the majority or what the experts think?  Tell me about it!

Mrs. Redd