Doing Some Cooking

I was working in the kitchen tonight pulling together some food to put in the fridge/freezer for next week. I am trying to plan ahead as much as I can and I am trying some new recipes. It's a little daunting. I am trying to make sure that I always have good choices available and lots of options in my pantry to throw meals together--something that I rarely did before, which made me make poor choices. It seems that side dishes are easy to come up with but a variety of good proteins leaves me a little perplexed. It's just a whole new world of choices and I am trying very hard to change my old ways of thinking about food. Might have to work on my chef skills!