Slice,Dice And Serve REPEAT

Morning, noon and night! Three times a day, whether your ready or wanting to! No one has a opinion unless it’s too late and then they don’t want it!

Does this sound familiar? I’m hungry, I want this, I want that! Oh I don’t like that anymore!

Do you cook in the house? Make the lunches?

Hi welcome back to Classy Classic’s By Kandis and if your new welcome!I am Kandis a mother of 4 children and a wife for over ten years!

I am the cook in the house, I plan it, prep it, cook it and serve it!

For a long time I was doing so good on meal planning. It helps in so many ways from eating better, having more time, and saving money.

There is so many ways to meal plan, and I thought since I was so out of practise I would take you along while I got back into it.

I set out to make sure I did at least my week meals!

I used to plan for 2 weeks if not the full month. This is because I am not from a city and so we do not go grocery shopping once a week. Sometimes we are only in the city for groceries once a month. This is a reason meal planning is so important in my house!

So let’s start!

Where to start?

You will need a place that you will look at ALOT to have them written down. There is no point in doing it if you can’t find it.

I find it easier to do one meal across first if doing for the week. So let me explain, I will start with the breakfast. Figure out the 7 days then move on.

I then figure out what we have first for breakfast, and go from there. I try not to double the same thing back to back to keep the complaining down, and that way if something arises they can do the same breakfast a couple days in a row and be ok.

As for lunch I don’t actually plan a lot, as the older kid’s are at school. However with the layout I can have a idea for the little ones as they tend to just munch all day.

This tho I can set out and have ideas for the weekend already set.

The real reason I like meal planning is to help with all the suppers. To have supper figured out, prepped and ready for 6:00 pm can be a job all in its self.

Too long I was just going with it, our suppers started to be tossed together not really healthy, expensive food. I have not done a freezer inventory in a while so it’s still not as deep as I could go lol.

However as a mom you have an little idea what’s in there! I set out and got an idea for suppers.

Then to see if you can use one item more then once. With this I mean: take my week I needed found beef for a couple meals.

Do bulk, in my case I pulled out elk meat to grind down and use for our 3 meals. One meat 3 meals I can do that.

I made sure the meals were in a row to use the meat as the last thing I want to do is through out food because it sat in the fridge to long!

Also remember to schedule in a left over meal. We will use these on a lunch somedays!

With 3 meals planned for 7 days, it can be easier to remember to pull that meat out the night before or first thing in the morning.

The next thing for meal planning that I like to do. Is a big meal plan for the month!

Just one a peice of paper I will make a sheet, or with a printable make one with a square for your meals and snacks.Whether you are needing to bulk shop or use what you have, or to do a grocery run half way through!

Either way to do a big meal plan can help out especially when trying to watch your money.

Meal planning can be helpful in so many ways!

• Easier to prep and be ready

• Save time and money

• healthier meals

Do you meal plan?

Week by week, 2 week plan or month to month?

Do you keep up with it?

Have tips on how to keep up,with it let me know how you meal plan!I hope you enjoyed the meal planning blog, I enjoyed writing about it, as I really needed to get myself back into the habit!

Till next week have a great day, and a amazing week! Like this blog let me know by hitting the like button!

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