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Meal Planning

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That’s right, meal planning. The dreaded, the insurmountable, the seemingly ghastly, ever reoccurring chore of planning meals has started. However, maybe with a few tools and pretty graphics, it can be made just a little sweeter. Right? A girl can hope…

I downloaded the mobile app called Pepperplate Food on the Table (from the Google PlayStore). I’ve yet to see if it’s truly any good (will be field testing it soon), I don’t like this one already, I can’t seem to enter in my own recipes. I’ve tried a few other meal plan/grocery list apps and they seemed one sided or would only go so far before I had to start dropping the dough. I’ll give it a week or so.

So as you may or may not know, I haven’t ever cooked much, but I endeavor to do more cooking and I’ve always desired a good, healthy spread for my dear husband. Keep a sharp eye out folks as I chronicle the adventures of (dun-dun-dun-duuuunn) mean planning made fun! YAY! (gag)

Now, Mr. Fox is lactose intolerant, so everything I make has to be altered. Thankfully, Mootopia (a HEB brand of lactose free milk) cooks like a charm with only a slightly sweeter addition to whatever I make, which suites us perfectly.

Here is my recipe list on Pinterest:

These Recipes are Made for Cookin’

I’ll also be using these printables:

And this blog for more recipes: Mealplanning101

TO BE CONTINUED!

Home Management – The Setup

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I am not an organized person. (If my mother read that, she’d die laughing in the understatement of that sentence.) I would, however, like to change that. I believe that if I start keeping track of the home on paper, Mr. Fox and I will have decent, not last minute meals, and stop over drafting. I am a write-it-down type of person anyway. I used to make lists in school and never forget a thing (which was a miracle). So here goes the planning!

This is my pathetic little budget binder that I put together in one shopping trip to Walmart after attending our church’s Faithful Finance’s class. All enthusiastic and bright-eyed about the budgetary future, I expected it to be easy if I followed the steps! IF I followed the steps. That required I write things down daily. So this is me, several months later, actually doing the writing down-ness part. I’m just wrapping up the rest of the household running with it. Two birds, one stone sort of thing.

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Next time I post on the Home Management Saga, I promise you that this little binder will look much more beefy and fleshed out and filled out.

What’s going into my binder in no particular order:

  • Calendar
  • To-Do list
  • Budget
  •        Debt Reduction plan
  •        Bill Payment Checklist
  •        Money Goal List
  • Project Management
  •        Project Budget
  • Meal Planning
  • Grocery List
  • Chore List
  •        Weekly
  •        Monthly
  • Planting Season List
  • Loose Paper Folder
  •        Important Documents
  •        Coupons
  • Vehicle Maintenance Record

Here’s what I’m reading on the subject:

I’m also very passionate about this image:

Source: mygreatchallenge.blogspot.com

Do they still make lamination? Think about making all those lists where you could reuse the paper month over month with a dry erase marker! Less of a footprint! YAY! I’ll be keeping this in mind… The problem is that I have no room for it… maybe.

Continued in my next post: Home Management Binder: Printables!