First, I keep a list of all of my recipes in Google Drive – just the names of them, not the actual recipes. I use a couple different methods for organizing my recipes for a monthly meal plan. CLICK HERE FOR GOBS OF WEEKLY MEAL PLANS 2. If you know you’ll be cooking most meals on busy week nights, try to stick to quick and easy meals to keep the week night rush to a minimum. It’s good to have a combination of meals, like chicken, beef, and pork, casseroles and slow cooker, etc. Your goal here should be to come up with roughly 30 recipes in varying meal types. I’ve got some good ones on my Pinterest board Yummyliciousness that you might like. Next, curate some recipes you’d like to try using Pinterest, Google, and great recipe sites like Betty Crocker, Kraft Foods, and Tasty Kitchen. I added things like spaghetti, ham & green beans, and turkey & gravy. Start with your favorites – those go-to easy meals that you make regularly and everybody enjoys. That’s a fancy way of saying that you need to stockpile your recipes first. Today I want to show you how I made this meal plan method work for me, then you will have an opportunity to download 41 FREE RECIPE CARDS to get your own monthly meal plan started! (Cuz I’m a nice momma, so I give stuff away. So momma likes a monthly meal plan, because momma only has to think about it once a month! YAY for nice mommas!! So the less I have to do it, the happier I will be. I see what you mean, but here’s the thing. “Isn’t it harder to make a meal plan for a month? Wouldn’t it be easier to just do it for a week at a time?” You see those happy faces up there? Yea, cuz I’m happy now about meal time! It’s not stressful anymore – WOOT WOOT! But, my family gets a bit cranky when they don’t get food, so it’s a necessary evil, right? I’ve tried everything I can think of to take the stress out of those “What’s for dinner?” questions at 5:00 each day, and after years and years of stress, I have finally found a method that works for me! I meal plan for a month or more at a time! Remember…you can resize these for any purpose you have in mind.Confession time: I hate grocery shopping and meal planning. So…Fire up those printers and I highly recommend if you are going to print from home to use a high quality card stock…it’s the best quality! If you enjoy…we will be offering more Diet Tips and Recipes each week so PLEASE let us know what you think! Now come on in and check it out and start printing! Be sure to check in tomorrow for our What Vegetarians Need To Know about Weight Watchers Post! It’s a fun and informative post even if you are not a Vegetarian. Hey…you don’t even have to be on a diet…it can just be a journal you keep for yourself. Sure hope you enjoy this Planner as much as you enjoyed all the others. All you have to do is go to the link under each page… click…the image will appear… “ SAVE AS” and print…it is truly that simple. Then just punch holes and make your own binder. No matter what Diet Plan or Life Style Plan you are following this Planner will work for you! There are 12 pages in all… of course you run off as many of each as you need. I had some requests so here it is! 12 Pages for you to keep track on what works…what doesn’t work… before and after record for each week…a place to keep your favorite recipes…your favorite snacks…doodle your thoughts and goals …record your daily food and exercise…journal your mood …keep track on your water intake …there is a fun grocery shopping list and of course there is a note page that you can use for anything you would like and much more. Since you loved our 2018 Free Printable 2018 Plannerand you download our Meal Planner on a regular basis and you also enjoy our Harry Potter Meal Planner 1 and Harry Potter Meal Planner 2 and more…I thought that you would all really enjoy a Free Printable Weight Loss Planner.
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