Day 23: Using a Menu Plan to Create a Master Shopping List

31 Days to More Organized Menu Planning

One of the big benefits of knowing what meals you regularly plan on your menu plan is your ability to create a master shopping list. What is a master shopping list? Essentially, it’s a categorized list of all of the ingredients for all of the meals you plan. The idea is to better help you [...]

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Day 22: Baby Steps, and Making it Work for You

31 Days to More Organized Menu Planning

I don’t want you to be overwhelmed and discouraged in this whole business of menu planning. I was talking with dear husband today about this series, because I was asked to share some ideas with a ladies group on menu planning. In talking to him, I realized that I may have made this seem a [...]

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Day 21: Rotating Menus for Easier Menu Planning

31 Days to More Organized Menu Planning

A few days ago, I talked about how I plan my menus 4 weeks in advance. Let me share with you a very simple way to do the following months’ worth of menus. On your menu plan, where it says “January”, erase it. Now write “February”. Voila! Most of the time, this is how I [...]

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Day 20: Leftovers Day

31 Days to More Organized Menu Planning

Each week on my menu plan, I schedule a leftovers day. For us, this day is usually Saturday, because Saturdays are usually casual. We’re usually doing fun stuff, relaxing, or doing some projects around the house. Naturally, as I said before, we freely allow snacking on leftovers, though the kids don’t usually do that. After [...]

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Day 19: Planning Snacks

31 Days to More Organized Menu Planning

I have five teenagers in my home. I used to think, falsely, that people were exaggerating when they described how much teenagers ate. Seriously. Then, my first child hit a magic number, and my grocery budget jumped. When I had a teen daughter and a teen son, it nearly doubled. Now I have an 18 [...]

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