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Wednesday, November 29, 2006 - Menu Planning

    I am trying so hard to simplify my Menu Planning time and grocery-shopping time. I suppose it is pretty minimal that it takes us 2- 2 1/2 hours to get our grocery shopping done. I guess, considering I am buying for 9 people, it could take longer. At least I get it all done in 1 day, instead of spending several days a week shopping. Did I mention I hate shopping? I am trying to have a better attitude about it since it is a part of my being an excellent wife. Still- YUCK!
    So, we have been writing out menus weekly on a nice, pre-printed Menu Plan I have for abour 2 months now. It still takes too long. Then, I have to transfer what I need to our shopping list. I sat down today and wrote out 4 Menu Plans.
    I had already written down our favorite meals into a notebook to choose from for our current planning. Today I typed it all up on 4 different menus, and we can just print off one of the menus weekly! YAY! If we want to change or add anything, we can just copy/paste.
    I am still working on getting them to transfer easily to the Grocery List. I fixed all of that today after I came back from the stores. So, I am going to get each of our menus on here.
           Menu 1             Menu 2            Menu 3            Menu 4

Btw- My Menu Panners start on Thursday, because I shop on Wed. Oh, and, yes, we do all realize how many times we eat peas, because they are dh's favorite. At least he will eat frozen peas now!
Be Blessed!  


ADDED 02/02/07:
    I have come up with an idea for making our Meal Planner more fun and less binding. Not that we stick to it exactly each day, but since we buy groceries for the week according to that plan, we follow it closely enough.
    We really hate going into town to the grocery stores... so, we don't want to have to run out and get something we don't have! A lot of times, Matt can pick something up if we really need it, but that isn't necessary too often.
    So, something I came up with is to print all of the dinner plans off onto 4x6 index cards and let the girls (who do a lot of the dinner prearation) pick what they want for that evening. Sometimes we haven't started something soon enough or thawed something...  0: so, we change some things then, anyway.
    This will get them thinking and planning in the morning, as they pick out the Lunch and Dinner meals for the day. It will give them more freedom to plan and help us be more organized.

*I have also come up with 4 different grocer lists according to each week;s plan, so all we have to do is print it off, not make a new one each week.*


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Walking Therein is a blog dedicated to journaling our family times, encouraging Biblical living, presenting what we have learned in 15 years of home schooling, and occasionally sidetracking on news-related stories or politics. We are looking for Yeshua, our Messiah to return soon, and are devoted to the One True God, which you will see reflected on each page. I am a forgiven & restored daughter of the One True God, a happy stay-at-home wife, and home schooling Momma to eight beautiful children. Our home school is Living Learning Moments, meaning we learn as life happens. We live on a 2 1/2 acres little farm in IN, and we love our homestead, raise goats and chickens, and keep our home. We also enjoy managing several websites and writing articles for the glory of God as we train up our children for him.

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