In honor of my first, I will start today even though it is Saturday. I hope that anyone coming to Menu Planning Mondays will read this first!
Start gathering your calendar. We can't plan menus if we don't even know what nights we will be home!
We will start with doing three weeks of menus. My goal is to be planning the next week's menu within a month. This way we are always a week ahead and we have back plans.
Be realistic about your family's needs. If they don't like new foods, start basic with everyday favs and we will add a new recipe every couple of weeks. You never know what may become a new family favorite.Go to United's website and sign up for their weekly ad to come straight to your inbox. You will know what is on sale and what we can plan ahead for. The best way to save money is pair those coupons with store ads to stock up.
Get the Sunday paper!!! We will use those coupons to help us plan a better budget friendly menu.
Bring your laptop or notebook or binder or what ever you are choosing to help you. If you don't know what works best, yet. bring paper and pencil. :) I will showcase another blog each week that helps with menu planning. Every one is different and we will all have our own way of doing this.
Be ready to fail. We all make mistakes, we all get tired and sometimes we even give up. This is NOT an all or nothing adventure.
See you Monday!!!
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