Menu Planning- What are your thoughts?

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Baraka'Allaahu'Feekum

"What's for breakfast?" ........ "What's for lunch?" .......... "What's for dinner?" and my reply is: "I don't know..." "I'm not sure...." or "Well I was thinking..." lol. So I guess you guys get the idea that I have no clue what we are eating until it's time to cook! 

Which is a big problem when you have a house of hungry people ready to eat and you still have no clue what to fix. Or if your like me- I'm always looking up recipes online to try- so in my situation- not only do I not know what I'm cooking- but 9 times out of 10 I don't know how to cook it yet lol! 

Again this is a problem when hungry toddlers just don't understand "hold on" or "give me a sec" or "I got look up the recipe!" Lol that's how my days usually go and Al-Hamdu lillaah Allaah has blessed me with a patient husband so he understands...but for the kiddos...ummm not so much!

I finally decided to stop procrastinating and fix my problem.We decided to adopt a meatless diet for the time being- which is more challenging for me. 

Today, I finally sat down and said: "I'm going to look at various recipes and put them in order from breakfast, lunch, dinner, snack, dessert" I was very tired of not knowing what to eat- and even more tired of making everyone wait until I figured it out!

So I went through blogsphere and got the most interesting, tasty looking (yes I need to see pictures of the food lol!) and meatless recipes I could conjure up. I always want to add more variety to each category - meaning: Why do we just have to eat oatmeal for breakfast.........let's find a way to make oatmeal jazzy- or Why even eat oatmeal? Let's make fruit filled crepes! 

I've read various blogs where women have been stating how menu planning is such a big help. I've even seen menus for an entire month! Now some stated they don't stick with it at times- they may sway towards something else that day- but at least you have an idea what you want to serve each day- whether you choose to serve a dish or not!

This I like. However, I'm still collecting recipes and have not graduated to an actual menu- I hope soon I can have enough recipes that I can decide what I want to do for the week vs. the month. I want to take baby steps :)

Have you guys tried planning your menu in advance? Or is this idea too much?

*all images were taken from google image- could not add a caption due to blogger acting up- no images are my own!*