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Real Simple slideshow

“A Month of Easy Dinners” – What working mom wouldn’t be attracted to that cover story?

The headline is from this month’s Real Simple magazine. I don’t have a subscription, yet. But I’ve long admired the magazine and pick it up from time to time, usually around the holidays when I have more free time to flip through the inspiring pages. This is the type of piece though that will convert me into a subscriber. 

I already know that my family eats better when I can plan my week out in advance. The trick has been to have some choices. Planned menus fail when you get to Wednesday, have tacos planned, but figure out no one wants tacos.

But what’s worse is getting into a menu-planning routine and finding yourself getting bored with your daily meals.

This issue though is jam packed with a fresh look at four weeks of meals and new flavors to introduce to my family.

The full list is online in a pretty easy to navigate slideshow featuring photos of the dishes (prepared and styled by experts) and recipes via link to the right of the image. I like that everything is online. But I’m a clipper, so I went ahead and bought a copy of the magazine. The best part is the shopping list for each week.

Now, if I only had time to go to the store.