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Overcoming Your Menu Planning Fears

April 29, 2016 by Abby

Whatever your reasons for avoiding meal planning, it’s time to give it a shot. Read on to learn all about overcoming your menu planning fears.

Whatever your reasons for avoiding meal planning, it's time to give it a shot. Read on to learn all about overcoming your menu planning fears.

Y’all I am so excited to be guest posting for my friend Angela at Setting My Intention. She asked me to write about menu planning- a topic I love– so I put some thought into what I wanted to say and, before I knew it, this post came pouring out:

I received a lot of comments when I wrote about how to make once-a-month menu planning work for you. Many were from people who loved the concept, either because they practice once-a-month menu planning or because they’d like to. There were a bunch of comments, though, from far more skeptical readers. A lot of them said things like, “Menu planning for an entire month? I can’t even manage to plan for a week.”

That got me thinking. As someone who has menu planned in one form or another for many years, I can’t quite imagine what it would be like not to do it. Even during phases when I don’t get a month at a time planned, I still plan by the week. Knowing what we’ll be having for supper each night is one less thing to worry about, and it’s something I highly recommend to pretty much everyone.

So why isn’t everyone doing it? Of course menu planning isn’t right for every person, but I don’t think that’s what’s holding people back. If I had to guess, I’d say what’s holding them back is various fears. Fears that, in my opinion, are largely unfounded.

Head over to Setting My Intention to read the rest!

 For more menu planning tips, check out my crazy popular post about how to make once-a-month menu planning work for you.Whatever your reasons for avoiding meal planning, it's time to give it a shot. Read on to learn all about overcoming your menu planning fears.

Filed Under: dinner, frugal living, homemaking, in the kitchen, supper — Tagged With: cooking, in the kitchen, meal planning, menu planning

How to Make Once-a-Month Menu Planning Work for You

January 18, 2016 by Abby

Menu planning isn’t rocket science, and it doesn’t have to feel like torture, either. Here are step-by-step instructions, plus super helpful tips and tricks, to make once-a-month menu planning work for you.

Menu planning isn't rocket science, and it doesn't have to feel like torture, either. Here are step-by-step instructions, plus super helpful tips and tricks, to make once-a-month menu planning work for you.

Before You Plan

Make a Pinterest Board (or two)

Menu planning is so much easier if you have a bank of recipes to draw from. I get that thinking up 25 or 30 recipes in one sitting is tough. When you have those recipes already gathered in a couple places, it just becomes a matter of assigning recipes to each day. That’s much more doable.

This is where Pinterest comes in. I have two boards that I regularly reference when I create our monthly menus: a tried and true recipes board, where I pin recipes we’ve tried and love, and a recipes to try board, where I save recipes I definitely want to try in the next month or two.

To get yourself ready for month-at-a-time meal planning, make a couple boards similar to mine. Take a bit of time to go through your other food boards and repin applicable content to those new boards, and keep the boards in mind as you browse Pinterest throughout the month. You want a hefty amount of recipes to draw from when you sit down to make your menu.

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Filed Under: dinner, food, frugal living, homemaking, in the kitchen, supper — Tagged With: homemaking, menu planning, time management

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