{"id":26868,"date":"2014-02-27T18:13:33","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T23:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/cooking\/?p=26868"},"modified":"2015-02-27T18:23:58","modified_gmt":"2015-02-27T23:23:58","slug":"my-meal-ideas-for-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/cooking\/my-meal-ideas-for-the-week\/","title":{"rendered":"My Meal Ideas for the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/cooking\/files\/2012\/01\/color-meal-ideas.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-26869\" src=\"\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/cooking\/files\/2015\/02\/color-meal-ideas.jpg\" alt=\"Free Printable: Dinner Meal Ideas with Breakfast and Lunch from The Happy Housewife\" width=\"600\" height=\"776\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/cooking\/files\/2015\/02\/color-meal-ideas.jpg 800w, https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/cooking\/files\/2015\/02\/color-meal-ideas-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/cooking\/files\/2015\/02\/color-meal-ideas-791x1024.jpg 791w, https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/cooking\/files\/2015\/02\/color-meal-ideas-600x776.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some weeks when I am meal planning, I just focus specifically on planning what we will have for dinner each night and leave the rest of the meals unscheduled for a particular day.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Because sometimes our\u00a0 daytime activities are hectic and ever changing, so writing those &#8220;in stone&#8221; 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