![]() ![]() Furthermore, instead of coming up with 3 meals a day yourself, have different people in your household be in charge of coming up with a dinner or a breakfast each week. Get your kids involved and have them write what they want in their cold lunch (maybe from options you provide first). Or instead of cold lunch, write what should be in the cold lunch. After looking at the menu you can write “hot lunch” or “cold lunch” on the line. The lunch section can be used as a hot/cold lunch schedule for school. This gives your kids a variety and freedom to make their own choices. For example, on Monday’s line you could list out cereal, grapes, toast, and hard boiled egg and draw a line down the rest of the week and those are the breakfast options for the weekdays. ![]() We like to make more extensive breakfasts on the weekend and keep the week more simple. Then have the kids select one or a combination of those 4 breakfasts each weekday. For breakfast or snack instead of something different each day, make a list of 4 things and draw an arrow down. You may feel like you are in a meal planning rut. It gets old having the same foods each day or meals each week. Lastly, I fill in any holes with a meal I have been craving, the kids have been asking for, or a restaurant outing or pick up. Meals that require a lot of prep have to be on specific days when I have the time. In addition, I think about meal prepping and when I will have time to prep. Third, I check my weekly tasks list and weekly schedule to see which day works to prepare and eat which meal. ![]() Typically, I only buy things that are on sale unless it’s a necessity like milk, eggs, bread and bananas. However, I may add it to my grocery list under the “watch for this item” section. If I don’t have the ingredient I may not do that meal that week. I keep my recipe book handy in case I need to look up a recipe to make sure I have all the right ingredients. ![]()
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