Frugal Menu Planning

…ith new recipes new, so I keep it to only one or two a week and if it’s a busy time, there might not be any new items on our menu that week.

That’s it! Once you get your system down, it should only takes about 10 minutes to plan a week’s worth of dinners. It may take longer if there are some new recipes you want to try or have a lot of ingredients to use up, but that’s fine occasionally- and actually one of the good re…


Menu Planning

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Menu Planning

One of the easiest ways to curb spending on eating out, as well as keeping to a grocery budget is planning a menu. It can be weekly or monthly, include all three meals or just dinner, but menu planning is your friend in the battle to embrace frugality, simplicity, and using what you have!

Just beginning to menu plan?

Start here: Frugal Menu Planning for my introduction on how I plan menus for our family.

And then find ins…


Easy Steps To Frugal Menu Planning: An Update!

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…stence). We added this spiffy new banner you see above, simplified the text and generally made it a lot easier to read!

In it you’ll find the five easy steps needed to plan a week’s worth of dinner menus in 10-15 minutes. Really! That’s all it usually takes me – when I want it to. Of course I can decide to try a bunch of new recipes, which I will then have to go and look up (but that hardly takes any time anymore th…


Monday’s Menu

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This week is going to be a bit crazy and when things aren’t “normal” I’m always a little tempted to throw out the menu-planning.

However…I’ve still got food that I need to use (and might be missed if I “winged it” all week), and we do still need to eat, so I’d have to think of it eventually, so I might as well plan for the days I know we will need meals for.

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