Comments on: SCALING BACK YOUR GROCERY BILL BY MENU PLANNING

By: Mandi

Mandi — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 21:20:03 +0000

For January, I planned out the whole month for dinners, and for February we are cleaning out the pantry and freezer. I have a love/hate relationship with meal planning… it’s fun to try new recipes and browse for them, but I hate the time it takes!

By: Chrissy

Chrissy — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:55:52 +0000

Funny! I feel like I should scream running down the street with a spatula…lol. I do plan as well weekly or bi-weekly, depending on the money flow outlook. Since Ive cut down my work schedule due to a challenging pregnancy, its been weekly. Here’s where I get stuck in planning: My hubby is the “whatever” man and my children say “just stop making nachos”, so I get a lot of help…right. How do you plan for a carnivorous man-child and picky children that hardly every contribute to my stress of planning for them? Im talking balanced meals on one income.

By: Creative Junkie

Creative Junkie — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:31:10 +0000

I cannot tell you how many times I have tried to do exactly this! I even went so far as to write on our family calendar the dinner for each day. I don’t know what’s wrong with me that I fail every time. As if it’s any easier to go running to the grocery store every single day?

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:14:48 +0000

Thanks so much for linking to my post, Shynea! Your article and the other resources you included are very helpful. Even though I have been menu planning for quite a while now, it is still somewhat of a challenge. For some reason I put so much pressure on myself to come up with a different menu for each week, and I tend to draw a blank when it’s time to sit down and determine the menu. It is SO helpful when my hubby weighs in and tells me what he’d like to eat, but usually he just says “whatever” I think I need to get a little more organized and put together that recipe binder I talked about in my post. I think it would help me remember the easy recipes that we like instead of reinventing the wheel every week.