![]() *Note: Of course, you can choose to use the same general system on a weekly basis. Make a list of food you need for the week’s meals.Think cereal, scrambled eggs, PB & J, salami & cheese. Fill in 2-3 simple breakfast and lunch options.Use recipes from the cheat sheet to fill in your meal plan calendar & print as necessary.Look at your family’s calendar/ plans/ activities for the month – make a note on your meal planning calendar regarding activities or plans that affect dinner.Create a recipe cheat sheet with all your go-to recipes in one spot.Print several copies of my monthly meal plan calendar template & fill in the dates for the current month.*.Here are the 7 steps for monthly menu planning in a nutshell: After doing that for 4 weeks, you’ll have a whole calendar of meals you could repeat next month. Just print my monthly calendar template but do my system one week at a time. ![]() If planning monthly just seems too daunting, feel free to ease into it. ![]() It just takes a couple months to find your groove! Use pencil, and give it a few months to see if it’ll work for you. Variety + Efficiency + Throwing less outīy planning monthly, rather than weekly, you can make sure to use up all your ingredients efficiently but not have to eat the same thing several days in a row. That way I know to buy double the ingredients in the recipe and freeze some of what I make. If I’m making something that can easily be doubled and frozen, I will put it on the menu twice and write “DF” near the first time I plan it. Many ingredients are cheaper in bulk, and many meals don’t take THAT much longer to just double the quantity. You can double & freeze meals which saves time and money. I promise monthly meal planning is less intimidating than it sounds!! 2.
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