Weekly Meal Plan Rejiggered

Hello, all!

Pardon the short respite from blogging -- completely unintentional as night would fall and other duties would demand my attention.
But I thought I'd update you all as to a change in our Weekly Meal Plan.

Though one of the points to planning meals is to reduce waste, we were finding that some of that was not working out so well. Namely, the beans/rice leftover from Wednesday's Mexican night. We weren't typically in the mood for beans twice in a row...but by Friday we were wanting Pizza only! So the beans would sit and sit and sit...and sometimes go bad >_<

So with a bit of reworking, we have a new schedule that looks a little something like this:

Monday - soup
Tuesday - Mexican
Wednesday - veggies on rice
Thursday - casserole
Friday - pizza
Saturday/Sunday - social outing, leftovers, brinner, random

So the main changes are at the beginning of the week.
By having soup on Monday instead of Tuesday, Ella won't have soup twice in one day (they serve soup on Tuesdays at her school...not that she'd complain because there's no such thing as too much soup!)
And by having casserole two days after Mexican, the beans will have had a good amount of time to percolate in their juices (yum!) and make for a good refried/casseroley kinda dish without waiting too long.

And that's about the gist of it.
Have any of you gotten some meal planning down?
If so, how's it working out~? What's your philosophy behind a well-balanced week o' meals?

Well, thanks for reading and until next time, Happy Meal Plan Rejiggering!