One of my new year's resolutions for 2008 is to get in the habit of pre planning my meals each week - not just for my personal nutrition, but to make it easier to feed my family (have fewer "I have nothing to make for dinner, let's go out tonight" moments).

How do you plan your meals for simplicity and variety? How do you factor in spontaneity?

Currently, I do plan on pre-packaging my meals into steam fresh bags and freezing them - meat, veggies and seasonings together. I'll just steam a bag for each person per meal that I am feeding. This seems simple enough with standard chicken and fish, even some beef.

Though I occasionally like to cook, doing big batch cooking is NOT something I want to get into - I get lost in details of big planning like that and actually have a pretty short attention span, which results in a job half done.

Have any of you used the Ziplock or other microwave steamer bags? What spice combinations have you found work really well?

God Bless,
mik