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Getting Started: Menu Planning Basics

Saving Cents With Sense

Getting Started: Menu Planning Basics. An easy fix to the meal scramble and wonder of what to put on the table, is the option of menu planning. Meal Planning can be done in many different ways and customized to however your family eats. Menu Planning Basics. The question of “What’s for dinner?”

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WIS, WWA | I had no plan

The Frugal Girl

What I Spent I went into this week with absolutely no menu plan…I was just winging it all week long and still, we didn’t eat out at all. Tuesday I sauteed the rest of the chicken tenderloins and used them in a green salad, with homemade croutons on top. I think we just had some fruit on the side.

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Valentine’s Day Menu Planning Tips & Recipe Ideas

Family Balance Sheet

Use the Good China. Unplug from the Outside World. Turn off the phones and any form of social media. Don’t invite or allow your Facebook friends into your date night with your sweetheart. You might have to wash the good china because it sits in a cabinet, unused the other 364 days out of the year, but break out the good china.

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Eleven Tips for Easier Menu Planning | Kitchen Economics Link-Up

Family Balance Sheet

The weeks that I take the time to plan the menu are the weeks that I have control over our spending. The weeks were I don’t menu plan are the weeks that I’m at the grocery store multiple times or we get take out multiple times, leading to an out of control grocery spending. Menu planning saves me time.

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News You Can Use | November 23

Family Balance Sheet

I use blank calendars for meal planning, half marathon training, and family event planning. Head here for Thanksgiving Menu Planning Tips & Recipe Ideas. . Do you use a Swiffer to clean your floors? Download a FREE 2014 Printable Calendar at the elli blog. Just in time for holiday shopping.

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Save Money On Groceries Without Using Coupons | Kitchen Economics Link Up

Family Balance Sheet

Paper products, such as toilet paper and diapers are easy for me to use coupons too. Menu Plan As I have written before, groceries are the one category that I feel like I have the most control over when it comes to spending. When I plan a menu, my spending is generally under control. Freeze for later use.

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WIS, WWA | no takeout for us!

The Frugal Girl

I made an eyeballed* approximation of the cilantro/lime dipping sauce that is in this chipotle chicken recipe to use as a dressing, and I fried some corn tortillas to make some crispy tortilla strips. *It And I used the last of the chili powder that Kristin from Going Country had sent to me. It was an evening full of eye-balling.

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