![]() Why You Should Have A Family Meal PlanĮstablishing a family meal plan can help you master your dinner schedule and your budget.īTW – Meal planning shouldn’t cost a fortune – it’s just an organized way to plan out family dinners that everyone in your home can eat. *This post contains affiliate links, however, all opinions are my own. Printable blank dinner menu calendar how to#In this post, I’ll be sharing how to start family meal planning on a budget, free printables you can use, how to go through your pantry and fridge and take inventory, a sample weekly meal plan, and over 100 delicious meals you can use to start your family’s meal plan off right… Have I said meal planning enough yet?! MEAL PLANNING. My groceries all have their place and purpose, my home isn’t as chaotic (I still have two roughhousing little boys to parent, after all), and I lost the stress of figuring out what I could make out of what I had leftover. Now, I feel like the master of grocery shopping, meal planning, and organizing my pantry! I just knew I had to find another way – an organized way! I didn’t know that what I was doing even had an official name. ![]() ![]() I decided to only get what I needed and to have some structure with our family dinners. I actually got so fed up with it that I decided to completely clean out my pantry, renovate the space, and start fresh.Īnd that’s where meal planning came in. Printable blank dinner menu calendar full#My pantry was full of ridiculous things that made no sense! I would get home from work and struggle to think about what ingredients I had, and which recipe they would work for.Īt times, I would forget about the produce I had waiting to be used in the fridge that would go bad before I remembered to use it! I grocery shopped depending on what I thought we might need – with maybe 2 or 3 dinners actually planned for two weeks I shopped for. I had boxes and cans of food from a previous year that were never used and had to be tossed. It’s hard to picture a time before meal planning, but I can remember being very disorganized. It also helped us manage bills and expenses on just one income. It has saved us tons of money and has helped me to be able to organize and utilize all of the groceries I buy with minimal waste. I started meal planning once my second little guy turned two – and it has been a HUGE lifesaver! ![]() Here are some meal planning ideas, over 100 family-friendly recipes to inspire you, and a FREE weekly meal planner template… ![]()
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