For the last year I have been planning my menus a month at a time. For me this has several advantages over weekly meal planning.
- I really don’t like menu planning, so I had a tendency to skip a week without planning. With monthly planning I don’t have to plan as often.
- It doesn’t take 4 times as long to plan for the month as it does for a week, so it saves time.
- I take one major monthly grocery shopping trip per month to buy everything needed for the menus (with the exception of fresh vegetables and fruits.)
- Weekly shopping is reduced to milk, eggs, fresh fruits and vegetables, along with sale items.
- Monthly planning has reduced my last minute eating out or picking up from the drive through stops to almost never!
Monthly menu planning works for me!
I do need to do this as well! Thanks for the inspiration and I'm about to check out your method of meal planning, hopefully it helps me!
Becca @ My Perception of Life http://beccanealtharp.blogspot.com/
I'm going to have to try this. Weekly planning helps, but I don't always have the time every week to get it done. But if I could set aside time to plan the whole month, and do one big shopping trip, things would probably be easier.
Jeni
http://jeniallen.blogspot.com
I really like the idea of planning menus for a month. I already do weekly menus, but sometimes it is hard to get to the store that often. I also like your tip of assigning a certain type of food to certain days of the week.
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Just found this…
http://www.monthlymenuplanner.com/index.php