Meal Planning

Do you Meal Plan? Do you make your Weekly Menu? Monthly Menu? What is your strategy?
We Meal Plan around here! I normally plan for at least two weeks at a time. It just depends on how motivated I feel. And sometimes, if I am feeling lazy, I will just do a week at a time. I normally write down my menu in one of these fabulous little notebooks.

I have about 15 of them floating around that I keep everything listed in, which is why I want to make a Home Management Binder! One place for everything except recipes, which I am thinking I will make a binder for those as well. Anyway, in one notebook I have a list of everything I cook. Then I have each dinner listed in it under a category like Crockpot, Grill, Oven, Soups/Sandwiches/Salads, Desserts, etc. When I sit down each week to plan out my menu it makes it easy because I know on Tuesday night I want something quick and easy, so I normally go for a Crockpot dinner or Soup/Sandwich dinner for that night.

As I was sitting down to make my menu for next week and the following week on Sunday I came across Misty's post! I was so excited to find this because she linked the meals up with recipes!
A-M-A-Z-I-N-G!
I am already planning to borrow a few ideas from her menu. I am hoping to be better about cooking more so that at least one night a week we can have LEFTOVERS!

Anyway, I would love to hear some of your favorite go to dinner recipes. Please feel free to leave those for me because I promise I will use them if they are easy enough for me! I am also interested in incorporating a dessert for each night. I don't do that too much right now - normally just on the weekends. I need easy things, that might last more than one night. Again any ideas are welcome! I can't wait to see what you guys have for me.