Meal Planning
Meal planning is a key element of eating on a budget. Planning your meals weekly not only helps you to use coupons efficiently with your shopping list, but it also helps you to plan meal preparation time. By planning out your dinner meals each night for a week at a time, you will be able to plan for leftovers as well. Eating leftovers, especially for lunches helps to save a lot of time and money. For this reason, do not be afraid to make extra food, because if you plan accordingly it will not go to waste.
Here are some examples of 7 day meal plans:
Sunday:
Meatloaf
Smashed Red Potatoes
Glazed Carrots
Monday:
Pulled Chicken Tacos
Brown Rice
Tuesday:
Grilled Cheese with tomato
Cream of tomato soup
Wednesday:
Sloppy joes
Green Beans
Cottage cheese
Thursday:
Beef stew
Biscuits
Friday:
Turkey burgers
with BBQ sauce and Pineapple
Waffle fries (baked)
Saturday:
Homemade pizza
Baked Chicken Wings
Here are some examples of 7 day meal plans:
Sunday:
Meatloaf
Smashed Red Potatoes
Glazed Carrots
Monday:
Pulled Chicken Tacos
Brown Rice
Tuesday:
Grilled Cheese with tomato
Cream of tomato soup
Wednesday:
Sloppy joes
Green Beans
Cottage cheese
Thursday:
Beef stew
Biscuits
Friday:
Turkey burgers
with BBQ sauce and Pineapple
Waffle fries (baked)
Saturday:
Homemade pizza
Baked Chicken Wings