Making a Menu

January 24, 2013 By

I posted Tuesday about me coming home again full-time after my brief job away from home. This job was not for fun, but necessity, and nothing has changed for us in the income department, so I am trying to cut costs to make up the difference.

It may seem pretty elementary, but our menu planning went out the door with me when I started working away from home. There just wasn’t time for everything!

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The best way I know how to organize meals is on paper. The only problem, I have no clue where the originals went for my menu planning.

I decided to make some, and share them with you. They aren’t fancy, but they will work. If you take your favorite meals and plug them into weeks, you will have a rotation of meals and always know what you need to purchase for them.

 

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Just click on the links below to download the files-

Favorite Meals Planning Sheet

Weekly Meal Planner

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  1. Debra says:
    January 25, 2013 at 11:43 pm

    Simple. I love it. :)
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  2. kelli- AdventurezInChildRearing says:
    January 25, 2013 at 2:02 pm

    Thank you Sam! I’m a pad and paper kind of gal myself – and I love pencils too!
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  3. Wendy R says:
    January 25, 2013 at 9:36 am

    I really need to get back in to menu planning! It’s one job I wish I could turn over to one of my young adult children, frankly! LOL
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  4. Susan @Homeschooling Hearts & Minds says:
    January 24, 2013 at 9:25 pm

    Menu making is one area that I fail MISERABLY at, but it really does make things go so much smoother. Thanks for the printables, now I just need to use them. ;0)
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  5. Cariann says:
    January 24, 2013 at 7:10 pm

    I have found menu planning at least for lunch and dinner can be done in Google Calendar fairly easily, I added a new calendar and color coded it. Now I can see what is for lunch and dinner and make notes including grocery list items on my phone, we can also view it on the computer as well. I can print it if I need to, but since I have my phone with me all the time, this saves paper and ink.
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  6. Jennifer says:
    January 24, 2013 at 3:03 pm

    Planning ahead ends up saving us time later. Thanks for the printable to help with menu planning- an area I’ve neglected lately, too.
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  7. Rick Kelley (@rickkelley365) says:
    January 24, 2013 at 1:20 pm

    Let’s eat!

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  8. Jenny says:
    January 24, 2013 at 11:32 am

    Hey Sam, thanks for sharing the worksheets. I like using Evernote and Pinterest for meal planning because I can add pictures – and it feels a lot more fun than just scribbling a meal plan down on a pad of paper.

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  9. Susan says:
    January 24, 2013 at 8:30 am

    Thanks for sharing your forms you made! :) I find that I save much more when I make up menus as well–and I am trying to remember to start making them by looking in the fridge. That way I can use up something that might otherwise go bad, before I make up “new” foods.

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  10. Renee @ Great Peace says:
    January 24, 2013 at 12:02 am

    Nice!
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