![]() But, I will browse the sales and see if there’s anything that catches my eye that I can get at a bargain and incorporate that into our meals.ĥ. I just find them too time consuming and not worth it. I don’t use coupons unless I’m shopping online and there’s a virtual coupon right there with the item. The rest is leftovers! And once a week we go out or order in! Īnd honestly, we only cook about 3 dinners a week. Salads on Thursday – doesn’t have to just be lettuce and tomatoes! Think pasta salad, bean salad, noodle salad. I also LOVE reading through my cookbooks and getting ideas from there.Īnother way to think of meals is to always eat a certain type of food on a certain day, for example: I’m usually surprised that I forgot, “oh yeah, we like spaghetti carbonara” or whatever and add that to the meal plan. ![]() Last year, I wrote out a long list of meals (with where the recipe came from) that we like to eat and put it inside my recipe binder, so I’ll often pull that out for ideas. Or search “30 minute meals” or “chicken dinner” if you have chicken on hand, but not a clue what to do with it. If you are out of meal ideas (we ALL get in ruts!), type in “healthy dinners” into Pinterest, Food Network, Google or and have a million options at your fingertips. I’ve been working at getting better at seeing what’s inside our pantry, and planning meals around that. I really haven’t gotten bored of it because I like both of those things, but every once in awhile I might change it up and have peanut butter on toast or bacon and eggs.įor lunch, you might often have a chicken salad or soup and a sandwich with some fruit. I might put peanut butter on my pancake, or change up the toppings on my oatmeal, but that’s what I eat every single day. If we have sports or something, I won’t have time to cook a big meal, so I plan for something fast, use the slow cooker, or eat leftovers that night.Īlso, it’s easy to meal plan if you eat certain things on repeat. For example, for breakfast, I always have either a protein pancake or oatmeal. plan your meals according to your activitiesīefore I plan what we’re going to eat each night, I figure out what’s going on in our week. ![]() I might actually escape to my room for 30 minutes so I won’t have kids crawling all over me while I do it!Ģ. I actually love this part of my Saturday morning. On Saturday mornings, after I’ve gotten the kids breakfast made and they’re playing, I sit down with my cup of coffee and make a meal plan for the week. Do you have a set time each week for that? If not, write that out now! It’s not that difficult to choose the meals you want to eat in a week, but you have to figure out what those meals will be, plot out the ingredients, shop for them, then make the meal. ![]() I think the hardest thing about meal planning is just setting aside a certain time of day each week to do it. I’m not above admitting that some nights it’s cereal for dinner! It happens!īut, you don’t need help choosing a cereal, you need a plan! So today, I’m going to share how I meal plan for our family of 4 and hopefully, this is helpful for your own family. On Stories, when I asked you what you were most interested in or needed the most help with in organizing and productivity, I was flooded with responses! It seems we all have areas we struggle with and many of us have too much to do and never enough time! By far, the overwhelming majority of you said you wanted tips with meal planning and I totally get that! The struggle is real with “what’s for dinner?” We go through that in our house too. ![]()
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