Creating healthy meal plans
How do you guys create your meal plans?
What I want to do is create a set of 20 or so meals for each of the daily meals (breakfast, lunch, dinner) that I can fix relatively easily and that are mostly healthy, and have them be in a sense 'interchangeable'. That way when I go to do meal plans, I'd be able to pick from something in the '400 Cal lunch' pile without too much thought and effort, and I can adjust recipes to seasonal ingredients and add new ones as I come across them.
What I'm not sure about is how to actually *do* that. Excel? Word? Notebook paper and a pen and a really big binder? Have any of you done something similar to this?
I've tried using online meal plan generators, and I find them to have really bizarre combinations of foods (like fat free cream cheese spread over half a grapefruit... I like both of those things, but just the logistics of getting the cream cheese *on* the grapefruit seems ridiculous), and a lot of unnecessarily expensive and/or out of season ingredients (like fresh figs, which are delicious but impossible to get here). So I figure doing my own is probably my best bet.
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