Another episode of “ How did she do that ?”

Meal plans.

We recently got a magazine from QFC ( Kroger) .  It had recipes with by lines that sparked my imagination.

Low maintenance Monday
Taco Tuesday
Worldly wednesday
Thrifty Thursday
Meat free Friday

Having a theme of some kind to make a matrix for meal planning makes the job easier and faster.

Our matrix is based on protein .  That gives us variety and makes everyone happy at least part of the time.   You can’t please all the people all of the time.  Fact of life.

Others use a matrix of those of meals,  pasta, Tex mex, Sunday dinner, etc. There are a lot of meal planning videos on u tube.   It helps to find one or two you can identify with and follow them,

The bottom  line is that if you plan meals and prep food ahead of time, you save time and money.

This is on a clipboard folder I got at target.   You can put recipes inside that you are using for the week and the form has a master grocery list to mark ff what you have and what you might need.  I made the form on an excel spread sheet.