Meal planning is difficult enough when you know just what you're going to be doing all week long and where you'll be. It's another thing entirely when you are bid to be open and spontaneous. That's what is asked when my husband takes time off work in May. "Let's just have a vacation frame of mind," he'll say, and so we do for the two or three weeks he's off. I love every minute of it except the part where I'm expected to come up with a meal on the fly, or an impromptu picnic. Then I tend to panic. I mean to be well prepared these two weeks. Fortunately for me, his vacation doesn't start until mid-week. That gives me time to do my thing: Plan!
The meals that follow may look odd. They are in no particular order. They are ideas of meals I might serve if day/time/circumstances coincide. So you'll find a couple of picnic worthy meals, and some deli/take out meals and some home cooked meals. All meant to cut down on my time in the kitchen, cut down on my worry about what on earth will I do for this meal or that, and not too severely restrict my husband in his spontaneity. I'm including breakfast and supper ideas as well since those meals tend to be ones where John requests 'vacation foods', lol. Even if we don't travel much we do enjoy having our vacation.
