If you haven’t already, check out my friend Ashlie’s blog. For the past week she’s been trying out a meal planner from Rachael Ray’s magazine, which promises 7 dinners for about $100 worth of groceries.

She has documented the whole thing on her blog, with mouthwatering pictures to go along with it.

I have to say I am impressed, and it is giving me new motivation to tackle some of the recipes in the Rachael Ray cookbook I got as a gift a little while back.

Unfortunately, it will have to wait until Olympic madness is all over, and I go back to working normal hours, five days a week.

On the plus side, I’ll be so tired of cafeteria food by then that a decent homecooked meal will feel like a wonderful luxury.