Witch Hazel - Hi Syb, well done on the pasta sauce. On the meal planning front, reading your posts suggests that its forgetting to get things out of the freezer that is the most common cause of derailment. You need to get into the habit/routine of getting stuff out of the freezer, so pick a time when it will be on your mind. It could be, "before you wash up today's dinner things, you get the food out of the freezer for tomorrow", or "before you turn the kitchen light off at night"... or whatever. Or stick a note on the fridge so that you see it in the morning. It doesn't matter when/what routine you pick, just pick something. If you defrost overnight in the fridge, and f you've defrosted something and plans change, all you have to do is have the defrosted thing on the next day instead. Good luck.
This is a good idea! What I need is the toothbrush principle. That is a book about organisation, which says that you never lose your toothbrush. You have a place for it, it is in a logical place and you put it back there after every use. I use the same principle with keys. I have a limited number of places I put keys. With the odd 'normal for Sybil' exception, we don't lose keys, they are always in the right place. I am currently on a campaign for little bear to apply the same principle to shoes. Playing 'Hunt The Other Shoe' five minutes after we should have left for school is not fun.
I am going to have a big think, or even a Big Think about this. Hazel, you may have started me on the path to cracking this.
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