#1 - it helps you when at 4:30PM, you say "what should I fix for dinner" before you have to head out the door at 6:30 to some activity
#2 - it gives you an idea of what are the ingredients you should put in food storage
#3 - it gives you the opportunity to tell your kids, when they say they don't like dinner, "you chose dinner on X day and your sibling chose for today" eat this and then you'll get what you want :)
#4 - it sure helps to make a grocery list - especially for those odd ingredients
#5 - it allows kids to have ownership in what is chosen each day - we have even had our kids help us cook the meal they've chosen (we need to get back to doing that again)
Overall....definitely a keeper concept that we are using in our family!
Meal planning is the best I read this book http://www.amazon.com/Coupon-Guide-Cutting-Grocery-Bills/dp/B003TO6DAA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1281623020&sr=8-1 and use her site it didn't cut our grocery budget in half but i think its because I need to do better but it did cut it by at least 30% plus meal planning keeps us from sneaking out to go eat :)
ReplyDeleteYa, planning a menu and the coordinating shopping list is possibly my least favorite responsibility, but also one of the most essential to our financial well-being.
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The eating kills the budget. Leon and I had no idea until we started to really examine it and we were flabbergasted. I'm excited about it. This two-week period, we have only spent about $150 on groceries - it rocks!
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