What would be a Home Management Binder without a Menu Planning section? Check out
this post for some Menu Planning tips and tricks if you are still new to the game.
This section is still a work in progress. My goal when it is finished is
to have a complete Master Grocery List, and a Monthly Menu Plan to fall back on--in those busy, crazy times when I just do not have the time to come up with a plan.
This is my the cover page for this section. Feel free to
Click Here and print yours.
Behind my cover page is
extra notebook paper for me to write down meals, side dishes or desserts that I come across during the day, that I want to try. If I find them on the internet, I will either save them in my favorites or
Stumble them so I can find them later. If I find it in a cookbook, I will go ahead and write down the cookbook and the page so I can easily find it again, when it makes "the plan."
After the notebook paper, I have the
always-work-in-progress Master Grocery List. Just when I think I have it down, I think of something else, or decide to do something differently. My goal with this list is
to incude everything that I buy on a regular basis, as well as price points that I consider to be a good stock up price. I've just recently re-done the one I was using, and I'm not so sure that this is exactly what I am looking for either. I found my current template off of our Excel Program, and have just went in and customized it to work for me.
I've also included
a few extra Weekly Menu Plan sheets just in case I am able to fill it in before the week comes up. I'm currently using the
free printable that
MomAdvice offers, but
Orgjunkie recently
linked to a bunch of menu printables and I think I found
a new one that I might like better.Once the current plan is figured out, it gets transferred to my dry erase board that is displayed on my refrigerator. I've really come to love this thing--it is much better than the calendar system I used to use. Plus, it is pretty! I found it at Wal-Mart for $1, up by the cash registers. If you are unable to find one--I have a few extra. ;)
Nothing too complicated, which makes it easy for me to keep with it. I was hoping to have my Master Grocery List and Monthly Meal Plan completed to share, but I'm just not quite there. Yet. ;)
Do you have a Master Grocery List or Monthly Menu Plan?
If you have a Home Management Binder, I would love to see your Menu Planning/Grocery Section. Link up!
**If you're walking along getting your binder set up, next week I'll cover the Finance Section. For a complete schedule, check out the BlogFrog or Facebook Fan page in the blog sidebar.**
