Free Meal Plan Printable
The holidays are a wonderful time of year but they can also be a real drag when they become that time of year where you are frazzled and disorganized. Don’t let that happen to you. My friend Taylor over at Mama Has PINK Hair created some wonderful printables with me. Last week I shared YUMs free printable recipe cards. Today I would like to share my free printable meal plans.
I’m old-fashioned. I still have paper and binders. I know a lot of folks are into using their iPhone and iPads and while I have those, no matter what app I use I always end up going back to old-fashioned paper and pen. With these free meal plan printables you can print one, or a month at a time to create your family meal plans. These are great for budgeting, especially if you are following a program like Dave Ramsey’s “Total Money Makeover.”
I hope you find YUMs free printable meal plan useful. Please let me know how it worked out for you.
We bought an old fashioned monthly planner and it has worked wonderfully for us. We map out our meal plan for the week writing down the meal and for those that serve multiple meals marking which days we’ll be eating it. Then we write down the cookbook pages or recipe location for that meal. I can’t tell you how many times when we’ve been struggling with what to make in a busy week where we’ve flipped back and said, oh wait we made X and it was quick and tasty the recipe is found on page … Or what was that barbeque we did when your Mom was here in July that was so good and we know because it’s in the planner.
Then we do turn to technology making our shopping lists out on DH’s phone as he’s the primary shopper.
I wish I could make my phone work for me. There have been a few times I have used it to look up ingredients for a recipe I forgot or which cut of meat has the least amount of calories in my price range but for the life of me I can’t seem to use it for a simple grocery list. I think that is because I keep a grocery tablet of paper on the fridge so that when we run out of things people can write it on the paper. Then I just rip that off and put it in my purse. I don’t want to take the time to enter it into my phone. I leave this printable in the office so when I am looking at all these foodie blogs I can jot the ingredients down and print the recipe. I have a Betty Crocker recipe binder that I put them in. Soon I am going to have to get a new one.