When I am super organised I have a planner that has the days of the week in the left hand column and across the top it has "lunch", "dinner" and "prepare". DH and I aways have a planned cooked lunch (we are not big bread eaters so sambos are out) and the "prepare" colum is for stuff like "take meat out of freezer" or "buy fresh herbs on way home" - things I can do today that make tomorrow easier.

I have a huge amount of cookbooks so I am constantly scourng for new meal ideas.

Lately I have beem playing around with Recipie Centre 5.0, a free program you can doown load that saves recipies and lets you create shopping lists and meal plans AND TALLIES UP THE INGREDIENTS AS YOU GO! Lucy this would be perfect for you cause if you need say 500g mince for Wednesday's spag bol and 500g mince for Friday's meatloaf, it automatically tells you (in your shopping list) that you need I kig of mince IYKWIM.

I have over stocked my pantry ATM so am trying to povvo-feed us right now, but once I am cleared out I will get Recipie Centre going in full swing.