One thing that we haven't been doing much is going out to eat. The kids have felt the brunt of this. In the past we have gone out to eat at least once a week if not more often. Now we eat every meal at home. We have to plan when we go out that we won't be out during a meal time where we will be tempted to eat out. This also means that we must plan our meals more carefully so that I have all the ingredients I need to cook supper. I also have to be ever present to make sure that I take out anything that needs thawing in the morning so it is ready to cook in the afternoon.
This afternoon I decided to whip up a form that I can fill out for a weekly meal plan. I have covered this subject before but tonight I thought I would share my form with you all. It is yours for free to print as many as you want. What I love about this form is that it has room to write your menu items for all three meals a day and you have a column for your shopping list. You can create your menu and add any items you need to your shopping list immediately. When you are done you can simply cut or tear off the shopping list and head off to the store.
I have two links for you. The first is the Weekly Menu Plan with all three meals and the shopping list. The second is the Weekly Menu Plan with a "snack" line for each day. I also plan a snack. It just makes it easy for us to know what is available to eat for snacks. If you are like me, then there are teenagers in the house who seem to be ravenous all day long!
Weekly Menu Plan
Weekly Menu Plan w/ Snack
These files are in .ODT form, this is an Open Office file. I don't have MS Word on my computer but you can convert these over to a Word doc pretty easily I think. Let me know if you have any problems with the files.
Enjoy and I hope that you will get good use out of them. I pray that they save you money, time and effort in your busy days.
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