I love to cook. And lately, I love to be spontaneous. But this spontaneity is costing me a lot of time and money at the supermarket as I whip out to pick up the essential ingredients for the latest dinner creation. So – I’ve decided this week to get back on track and plan my menu for the week before I hit the shops.
I have a Menu Planner that I created some time back and kept tweaking until it was just right for me. It starts on a Saturday, includes all meals on the weekend (just dinners during the week) and incorporates a shopping list so I am only buying what I know we need. Because I always cook from a recipe I’ve also included a place to record the book or website that it came from.
I have also created a version of this that works from Monday to Sunday. If you’d like to try my menu planner I’d love to hear what you think. Does this work for you? How would you change it to make it fit your life better?
Finally – here’s my scrawled completed version of the Menu Planner & Shopping List (and a heads up on what will be appearing in ‘What’s for Dinner’) for this week.
Hi Lisa,
I love the look of your menu planner for the week with the shopping list as well – very ME!
I do my lists from Mon-Sun, so could I please have a copy of that one to try? (the link won’t work for me??)
Thanks heaps! I’ll let you know how it goes…
Katy
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Hi Katy
I’ve just redone the link so hopefully it is working now. Please let me know if it’s still broken and I’ll email it through.
Have a great weekend!
Lisa.
Hi Lisa,
Sean did the grocery shopping last week and informed me that my shopping list was $#@! because it wasn’t organised and was all over the place! He had to backtrack several times because he missed a few things! (Poor baby!)
So – I’ve printed out your menu & shopping list (I remembered how impressed I was with it all those months ago when you put it up on your site!) and we’re going to give it a go for the next few weeks & see how we go!
Thanks!
Katy
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Goodluck. I might even get organised and do up a menu plan for the week ahead myself!