menu planning

How I Do Our Menu Planning One Month at a Time

Although it seems like menu planning is much more common around the blogosphere, I often have people react with surprise when they find out that I tend to do my menu planning one month at a time. In addition to the menu planning one month at a time, I also tend to do one major [...]

Our One Month Menu Plan

This weekend, I made our menu plan for a month and went to the grocery store. Also, this past week, I visited Dream Dinners and made a few things for the freezer as well. Here is our menu plan (mostly dinners, but some will be used for lunches) for a month (or maybe a little [...]

Menu Plan Monday: January 26th Edition

Wow! Check it out — I’m actually putting up my menu plan again! And, for the first time, I’m attempting to plan out breakfast and lunch too. So, it may not be exactly what we end up doing, but it’s an experiment to see if it helps at meal times. Main dishes only, typically, are [...]

13 Random Household Tips (TT #29)

Thirteen Random Household Tips 1. Cover a pot to help water boil faster. 2. You can use a shoe organizer to help organize in your pantry, or if you don’t have a door — small baskets can do wonders for grouping together smaller items in your pantry. (We used to have a basket of oatmeal [...]

Menu Plan Monday: October 20th Edition

I’m going to be a tiny bit of a slacker this week on my Menu Plan Monday and not assign meals to days. I’m just not sure I’m ready to commit quite yet. So…let me just post what we plan on having, in no special order… Homemade Chicken Noodle Soup (Yeah, we didn’t manage to [...]

13 Ways to Save Money on Your Food Budget (TT #28)

Thirteen Ways to Save Money on Your Food Budget 1. If you want to get take out food to take home, don’t buy drinks with it. Depending on your family size and where you are buying your meal, you could save a decent amount of money just by having drinks you already have at home. [...]

Menu Plan Monday: One Week and One Month Edition

I have planned out what we’re having this week, and then below that, I have a list of everything that I just shopped for this week to last us through the month. (Of course, some of the shopping was from our pantry/freezer, but I did a HUGE shopping trip last week!) We mostly use leftovers [...]

Menu Plan Monday: September 22nd Edition

I don’t want to assign specific days to my meals this week. Usually, I end up moving things all around anyway, so why set myself up for thinking that I messed up my schedule, right? Another thing I have going on this week is to try to use up some of the stuff we have [...]

Menu Plan Monday: September 8th Edition

Wow! Look at me! I am actually writing up a menu plan this week. I was so darn good for so long, and then I started just planning things once Eric got home five minutes before Eric walked in the door made Eric pick while I was out doing therapy as I went. But, here [...]

Saturday Night Link Round Up: September 6th Edition

Simple Mom, as always, posted an amazing resource this week — her favorite online tools for home management. If you are not regularly reading Simple Mom, you are missing out on a lot of great content! If you’re a homeschooler (or just want to have some fun, educational things to do with your preschooler), be [...]

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