Food Categories

When planning my menus, I think in terms of categories of food I need to create. Right now, I try to include the following categories:

* Breakfast
* Main  meals
* Soups
* Lunch salads

Mom eats her main meal of the day between noon and 1 pm. She's up by 6 each day, so 1 pm is more than about half-way through her day! She eats breakfast an hour or so after getting up. Outside of her dinners, she needs to snack on healthy entrees that are smaller than a full three-course meal.

Soups are a great small meal for her. So are salads such as tuna salad, egg salad, crab salad. If she has salads and frittatas available in her refrigerator, that is what she will grab for.

It's a little harder to provide enough of these items because they taste better when eaten fresh. They shouldn't be frozen. Also, mom's freezer is like the dead zone: it's so filled with...stuff, she has trouble finding things in there!