Planned Meals

My least favorite question of the day is, "what's for dinner?" I love the idea of this blog and I look forward to new ideas for meals. A few years ago, I decided that shopping for planned meals saved me more money than grocery shopping without a plan. So I made these meals cards and have used them off and on over the years. I have 6 cards (each is an 8 1/2 x 11 piece of paper folded in half). One one side is 7 dinner ideas and on the back is a list of all of the ingredients needed for those 7 meals. So in all, it is 6 weeks worth of dinner ideas. I tried to include one or two more elaborate meals each week, but the rest are simple. I laminated them so I can take the card to the grocery store with me. I often already have many of the items on the list (butter, salt, flour, etc.), so it's easy to look over the list and see what I need. I LOVE these cards and would be happy to email copies to anyone who wants them (including the recipes). You can substitute your own recipes or change them up in any way you want.