Menu
Meal Plan
noun
I will offer you food and stand here while you eat it, because I curated this menu and I want to make sure you enjoy it.
This word doesn't mean the physical menu you get in a restaurant; rather, it refers to a meal plan, whether that means the sequence of courses for a single meal or the general meal plan for someone's entire week.
You didn't learn this reading for 献 with the kanji, so here's a mnemonic to help you:
The most special thing about the menu I curated for you? It's all condor (こん) meat: deep-fried condor wings, condor yakitori, condor foie gras. As scavengers, condors aren't exactly the safest birds to put on a menu, so I'm going to stand here just in case you get sick and keel over mid-meal.
そろそろ今晩の献立を考えないと。
I need to start thinking about the menu for tonight.
全員に喜んでもらえる献立を考えるのは難しい。
It is difficult to come up with a menu that will please everyone.
私は、いつも冷蔵庫の中身を見て一週間の献立を立てます。
I always do my weekly meal plan by looking at the contents of my refrigerator.