Archive for May 7, 2008
Meal Planning – How to – Step 2
Now that we know what is in our freezer and pantry (see Why Meal Planning – The First Step) it is time to begin to put together our weekly meal plan. A quick note: not all budgets are equal. Some have tighter budgets than others. This Sample Meal Plan is meant only to give you an idea of how all this goes together. Realizing that many are really squeezed financially we are making efforts to get more low cost recipes on the www.emealsforyou.com site.
Grocery shopping with a shopping list has two great effects: you know you will have what you need when you are preparing the meal and you will save money as you only buy what is on the list. Working with the local grocery sales sheets I have put together the meal plan for 7 dinner; using the techniques mentioned in Feel the Power – Weekly Meal Planning- Save Time and $$$ choosing meals that are fairly easy to make and pleasing to your family. In the interest of space on this blog I have created a separate file:Feel the Power – Meal Planning – How to Step-2 – using the emealsforyoucom site to show you the meal plan and the shopping list created by www.emealsforyou.com so that your trip to the grocery is both quick and economical. You will also see that it is possible to add items to the shopping list not called for in the recipes but needed around the house. The entire process took roughly 15 minutes to complete. You may do this same function without using emealsforyou.com. You just need to gather your recipes, compile a list of all the ingredients to include amounts and then off to the store.
Remember the reason we are meal planning is to save money: buy just what you need, not all the costly extras and feed your families better meals. Better being better tasting, better for them and maybe more, “this is good mom” for you.
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