I follow weight watchers and I find that if I plan out our weekly menu it's easier, I eat healthier and it's much less expensive, though I will admit there were weeks (especially while house hunting) where everything got messed up. It's difficult to be dedicated to this, but when we don't (I mean, when I don't) plan we either eat out or eat pasta. I have a huge list of food blogs that I go to for ideas. We also eat very little meat during the week because we do not support factory farms and cannot really afford the meat otherwise. We have DH daughter on weekends, so we save the meat meals for then, otherwise it's just the 2 of us. I do the planning and buy the groceries, DH cooks, but I do get his OK on the chosen meals. So, here is what I do. Sometime during the weekend I check out what we have left that needs to be used up and write that down. Then I ask DSD and DH if they have any requests for the next weekend. Then I start searching/reading my food blogs and weight watchers cook books. I find recipes or whatever for dinners Sunday - Saturday night, and either more for lunches, or plan the dinners to be bigger to accommodate extra portions. Then I get "approval" from DH. I write up 2 lists (I like to write things down). 1 is each recipe's ingredients. The other is all the items we need from the store. This way if I get to the store and need to eliminate one of the recipes or make some other change, I can check all the recipes and see if that will cause changes anywhere else. We do the shopping Sunday. I try to plan for an easy meal for Sunday night cuz who wants to do all that work after shopping? Otherwise, each meal does not have a set day. It seems like a lot of work, but honestly, our grocery bill has dropped dramatically, and it's so much easier to come home and check the list for dinner then to come home tired at the end of the day to a bunch of random groceries and say "hm, what can we make out of this", which is when we end up eating out, not cost effective. Life does get in the way, he does get too tired to cook, but I do try to plan some simple meals for the worst days. Grilled veggie burgers is one of them. He wants to make up a spreadsheet of meals we've tried and rate them for easy picking when I don't have time to plan. This week is bad because my back is very injured and I've been in a lot of pain since Saturday. I don't think it even occurred to him to plan or go shopping :( But my appetite is pretty much gone, so we can have pasta all week if he wants LOL I'd like to eventually get to the once or twice a month cooking, but that's a very long term goal! I hope this ramble helped someone!!!

Oh we like them fried in a skillet as well as on the grill. The ones in the skillet are the greasy kind that you get in diners. He fried the french fries like we like them very well done...We even toasted the buns with butter and a little garlic. I so want to go in there and fix the last burger for me for an extra breakfast. The bagel I had with Tony just didn't fill me up...

I bought a frozen Mediterranean pizza. That piping hot and a huge icy cold Coke and I'll be fine ! I also tried another pre-made bagged salad, sheesh are those awful. From now on I'm making my own wonderful (and organic) salads.

Fajitas, we love those! I must make them on the weekend, or next week. Thanks for the inspiration Raven. Pam hubby will take hot dogs over hamburgers any day. He'd love your dinner, lol. We love "shumaligans" Prairie. It's a good thing because I always cook too much, specifically to have food leftover. Gadgets, our favourite fast food burger is A&W, but once in a while I like a big Mac. They're messy with the lettuce ending up all over me. I'm sure you're much neater! Kathleen, for grabbing a fast meal it sure sounds healthy. Audrey, corn chowder is terrific soup. I hope Schultz is doing much better.