Now that you’ve made your cute menu display and organized your days into themes, now it’s time to move on to our final step in this series:
My recipe box also has tabbed dividers of the themed days of the week- which makes it easy to flip through while planning my menu.
2. Find a recipe for Mexican Monday by looking in the file box or the “Favorite Recipes” notebook under the tab “Mexican”. Continue in this fashion finding a meal for every day of the week. Use the “Recipes to Try” notebook to find a meal for “What’s New Wednesday”.
3. Make a grocery list.
4. Go shopping.
5. Eat dinner.
6. Live happily ever after.
Again, because my days have a theme, the guesswork is almost done for me. And because my recipes are organized by theme, I can easily flip to the meal ideas for that theme and choose among tons of options!
Ta-Da! Easy, yummy meals in a wide variety! Meal planning is only going to get easier for you, I promise!
Stephanie Dulgarian is the creator of Somewhat Simple. She is married to her best friend and a mom of 4 kids living Arizona, USA. She loves ice cream, autumn, Sunday naps, traveling, game nights and shopping. She is not a fan of unloading the dishwasher, Peeps marshmallow candies, mushrooms, and she despises laundry more than anything else in the world!
A few of her favorite creations on her blog include Let’s Celebrate Board, Master Bedroom Collage and The Dry-Erase Glass Calendar.
Nicole Jenkins says
Stephanie thanks so much for ALL 3 of these wonderful post on meal planning. My Husband is going back to school and I am the one who brings home the bacon.With a tight budget these 3 post are going to help me out TONS with meal planning.
I am so greatful for your time getting these up for us. THANKS!!!
stephanie says
Hi Ladies, sorry for the late reply, for some reason these comments didn’t get emailed to me. I actually just used picnik.com, but when it closes I will be using picmonkey. Easy!
Diane says
I, like Becky, would like to know how you wrote the recipe on the photo of the recipe card. Great idea!
Money Saving Enthusiast says
What a great idea. I’ve been meaning to do this. I have them all in a binder but they are not organized. I guess I’m just going to have to do this.
If you make copies and put them together, you can give them as a gift. I do that at Christmas.