I have been meal planning for years now and it has become my flight plan for the week. Sometimes I make a very detailed meal plan that includes breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks, and other times I just plan out a week of dinners. Honestly it depends on how busy we are during the week I am meal planning for.
Today, I will be discussing some tips and strategies for successful meal planning.
Meal Planning Tips and Strategies
Every week I try to accomplish the following:
- be flexible with meals
- try to meal plan around your schedule (this is very important)
- leave at least one leftover night (depending on what I have made during the week I might have two or three leftover nights. It just depends.
- only plan/try one new recipe per week
- move unmade meals to the next week
- take a week off and just use what you have on hand in your pantry or fridge
- use cookbooks, pinterest, or you can even ask friends
- use an old meal plan
- use "theme' nights (these are my favorites) Monday-slow cooker, Tuesday- taco tuesday, Wednesday- leftovers, Thursday-slow cooker, Friday- pizza night, Saturday-Leftovers, Sunday-slow cooker.
- ask friends and family on facebook
- watch grocery hauls or what's for dinner videos on Youtube
- magazines
- use hashtags (#familymealplan #weeklymealplan #mealplan
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