March already?

February was kind of  a miserable failure.  The focus was on health, and simplifying health is a bit of an abstract concept.  I did come to a realization that the demands on my time are probably keeping me from really being healthy until something big changes.  For that reason we put our house on the market...and sold it!  We had an offer within about 4 hours of it being on the market, so now we are looking for where we will go from here.  If it has done anything, it has certainly made life a bit more complicated (especially as we got it ready to show), but the hope is that a little over complication in the present will more for more simplification in the future.

And on to the next month.  The focus for March is food.  This one I've been looking forward to since the beginning of the year.  I've got lots of good ideas for simplifying our food buying and cooking, but haven't had the time (or much motivation) to really focus on implementing and sustaining the good ideas.  I'm hoping that the focus on food for March will give me a good reason to get it to the forefront.

Here's my punch list for March:

• Pack lunches the night before (this will ensure that we are eating better, reduce the morning stress, and help me not feel like I'm neglecting my kids while I'm getting ready for work and hoping that they are packing something halfway healthy.  I don't know why I don't already do this....oh yes, I do.  I'm lazy :)
• Trust the menu plan.  I have subscribed to a number of menu plans (savingdinner.com's menu mailer, emeals.com, etc) over the years and have also used allrecipes.com menu planner for the last couple of years.  I love both of these options and find that they both work if I will just stick with them.  The plan not only keeps me on track with the foods we do need, it helps keep me from wandering down the wrong aisles and picking up all kinds of things that we don't need (i.e. twinkies, m&ms and laffy taffy...all of which have found residence in our kitchen at the moment).
• Spend 2 hours on Saturday prepping food for the week.  This always makes the week go better.  I usually bag up fruits and veggies and will occasionally freeze some smoothie blends for the mornings.  When we have things on hand and ready to go, we eat well.  When we don't, well, we resort to twinkies and m&ms.  

I think that's it for this month.  I'm going to add reminders to my phone for the first and last items so that maybe I'll be more consistent.