Again, less time in the kitchen for the preparer. Slow cooking meals like roasts and crockpot meals can be started at the same time you are preparing the first meal of the day.If you eat a healthy snack earlier in the evening, you’re much less likely to eat a late-night snack, which are very detrimental to a person’s health.For many families, it’s easier to gather the family together twice a day instead of 3x a day.Snacking won’t be as much of a detriment to overall daily calorie counts.Allows for more meaningful family time in the evenings, since meals are completed at an earlier hour.We get to eat more cooked breakfast meals like pancakes and eggs, which I don’t make often enough.Allows you to try intermittent fasting, which even Harvard says has some benefits.Less work for whoever has to do meal prep and cleanup.There are so many benefits to this, I can’t even begin to list them all. One will be somewhere around 9-11 am, and the second one at 3-4 pm. I am having a family meeting at breakfast today and announcing our new schedule. It’s so simple…I don’t know why it never dawned on me to do this. Why have I never thought of this? But she posted that this is what her family of 5 is doing during the quarantine. (shout out to Laura!) When I saw it, my head exploded. I cannot believe I never thought of this. Start with meal planning and getting back on a grocery budget. And by that, I mean, meal planning, eating healthier, save money….start small. Takes the stress off you for thinking of ideas. Tell everyone in the family they get to choose one meal each week/month.I can sit down one evening and shop and meal plan in less than an hour. It’s also a huge time saver and sanity saver. I find that I spend much less money on delivered groceries because I stick to my list and no impulse purchases. See if there is a grocer near you who delivers.When you see great ideas on Pinterest or in a magazine, don’t just pin it and forget it.Better to have a plan of something simple and nutritious than nothing at all.
Right now I have about 15 of them, and I just choose one and do my shopping from it.
#PRINTABLE MONTHLY MENU CALENDAR DOWNLOAD#
Each set includes a print for each month with no year and no dates filled in so that you can use it every year! Punch holes in the planner pages and add to your current planner (don't have a planner? Download my free printable weekly planner) or take it somewhere to bind the pages together ( you can do this at any OfficeMax/Depot, FedEx, or Kinko's for a reasonable price). The monthly menu planner printables come in both horizontal and vertical formats. You can shop for the perishable ingredients two weeks at a time, or buy freezable or canned items for the whole month since they will last longer. For any ingredients your are missing, add them in the shopping list section. Monday=Italian, Tuesday=Soup, etc) to help make choosing meals a little easier. If your list isn't very long, or you need some ideas, try assigning a certain day of the week a specific type of meal (i.e. Save this list with your other monthly menu planners so you have your options on hand. Then, to make things a little easier, make a separate list of your family's favorite meals.
Start by writing in any important dates, holidays, or occasions where you might be going out or eating at someone else's home on the calendar. At the end of the month, get out the planner and decide what to have for dinner every night during the next month. To help solve the "what do you want for dinner?" problem, I designed a monthly calendar to plan our dinner menu.
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