POYEL: Meal Planning

from  Modern Parents Messy Kids

Yes, I'm trying to organize portions of my life using Modern Parents Messy Kids tips! I hope to help get my moms house in order & have a system so that one day when I have a place of my own I can just jump right into the system and never have any horrible catching up/back tracking to deal with.

My first project I decided to deal with was our meal planning. My mom gets home pretty late from work and we tend to sit around saying 'what do you want for dinner?' ... 'I don't know, what do you want?' over and over until deciding on some fast food that is less healthy & more expensive in the long run. 

I bought my mom a nice dry erase board meal planner last mother's day and it works great... when we use it. So, using ideas & tips from MPMK I created a simple meal plan with materials I already had!

pieces of foam that had been already cut for a GS project

glued the pieces together 'fashionably'

wrote the name of the meal, 

all ingredients needed for shopping 

& even the category of food it falls under

Finally, stuck a magnet on the back and made more magnets with each day of the week so they wouldn't permanently be stuck to something & I could move them anywhere on the fridge.

I made about 32 different meals and can add more when we want. Each week we'll go through the pile [which we store in a container on the side of the fridge] and put them at each day even leaving blank days for leftovers. Then we go through each meal and create a shopping list for the items we don't have. 

Also, we made a few pieces for eating out but made a rule to only eat fast food about twice a month.

Anyway, so that is how we organized our meal planning/shopping! Thanks, MPMK ! ! !