Hey, this is for the grocery shoppers in the family. I found a useful meal planner tool from real simple. What I like about it is that you plan your menu for the week and then use the categories to plan a shopping list for the ingredients that you will need for the week. I break my shopping list into the same categories as well as a few of my own. And there's an extra bonus for those of you who are building a 3 months supply of food. If you do this weekly you have a written record of a weekly menu and all the ingredients as well. Save the records for a month or so and you have an easy way to know what your family eats regularly and how much you will need for a 3 month supply of food.
Here's the link
http://www.realsimple.com/static/pdfs/dinner-plan.pdf
Save this on you book mark manager and print out weekly when you're doing your grocery list. Speaking of grocery lists, I've found that if I plan out the meals for the whole week we're much less likely to go out to dinner unless its for a special occasion which is kinder to our wallets and health as well.
Now for the pics
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Thankfully Mom remembered the bunny ears! (pic taken in San Diego)
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| One of my favorite Cain family pics because of Nat's floating head! Peek-a-boo Dad and Carl! |
3 comments:
Great info Amber. This is a very good plan for practicle use, saving money, and avoiding "wasted food, wasted food".
Pics. show after we reach a "certain age", not much changes.
Thanks for the planner. I'll try it.
Amber stop providing useful tips and tools, I'm running out of excuses for not planning the weekly menu..
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