Their is a Menu Makin' Mama in me!

Part of my personal goals for 2011 was to start making a menu plan and sticking to it. My wonderful husband was a great help with this. He gave me some great ideas and took the stress right out of it. I am so blessed to have a level headed husband who keeps me on track. I was about to toss in the towel on this idea before I really even got started. Him and his infinite brilliance got the system started for me. I was trying to make a calendar for sorts but I got to day 2 lunch and I was frozen. He said to stop looking at the days of the week and just go with a list of meals you want to make. Really that was all it took to get the wheels turning certainly I can make a list of 14 dinners, and about 5 or 6 lunches and breakfasts to rotate. So we did just that. we made a list of meals we wanted to make keeping in mind we wanted 4 Crockpot dinners 2 for Wednesday nights when I don't have time to cook before bible study/awana, and 2 for other days I know I wont have time to cook or don't feel like making dinner, 2 crock pot breakfasts & 2 Crockpot lunches for Saturday Sabbath that I prep on Friday mornings so I don't have to "work" on Sabbath. So now I just have a list of meals on the fridge and we cross them off as we eat them. My hubby also helped properly label and bag up our meats and such after the big shopping trip. It's been working out quite well thus far. We always over spend and things go bad and such but we really made huge efforts to stretch the budget and just get the things we needed and have all the meals covered for 2 weeks. We also hit some sales, used some coupons and we spent a mere $246 for 2 weeks for a family of 6. That is not bad at all. I was proud of my lists and handy work so I took a photo after they where completed.