It was a pretty typical morning.  By 7 a.m. I had cleaned up the kitchen and cleaned up dog vomit, made 2 breakfasts and 2 lunches, changed the laundry and changed a light bulb.  I had been up several times during the night with a sick child, Andrew had left at 5 a.m. for a business trip, and my head was groggy, but fortunately coffee was brewing (yes, also made by me).  You know, the usual. 

As I looked ahead to my chaotic day full of meetings and to-do lists, I realized the only thing that didn’t stress me out was dinner.  I knew what I was making—an Italian vegetable and white bean sauté with Parmesan cheese—and I knew that it would only take me about 20 minutes to have a gourmet and healthy meal on the table for my family, so I could finally sit down with them and relax a while. 

I’m telling you this story because a) you can probably relate to my morning, and b) if your dinnertime routine feels as chaotic as the rest of your day, and you wish you had the comfort of already knowing what you were making for dinner and that you had all the ingredients you needed without having to add a grocery store drive-by shopping to your day, then I hope you’ll consider the joy of weekly menu planning with The Six O’Clock Scramble, www.thescramble.com.  In fact, I’ll even plan your weekly meals and give you a grocery list to take with you to the store each week.  Then it will be on my to do list–not yours.