Since the begining of December 2014 when money was abit tight we have sat down and worked out meals for that week, and bought the things we needed only (plus the odd snack type bits for lunch times and weekends, health n beauty bits, fruit, cereal etc) and we have saved LOADS of money compaired to when we just went and bought "stuff" or "everything". WHY I haven't done this sooner I never know!!!
Well I decided if we can do it for a week can we work out a plan of food for the whole month? The answer is simply yes! I sat and made a list of all the meals we eat/cook regularly and it came to 33, now I know my maths isn't great BUT I do know that no month has this many days in it, so i'm already onto a winner.
The hardest part was actually working out what to put on what day and what week, so that we didn't have all chicken in 1 week or on consecutive days (if possible) but as chicken is the main meat we eat this wasn't a totally easy task. But I managed it.
Then there was a harder task of working out what we needed for each meal so as to compose a shopping list. So I worked my way through each of the meals from list 1 noting down what we needed for each 1, and things that were used in multiple meals I changed the font colour to red.
Even though we have the planner things may change on it if my knee is playing up and I can't stand to cook, or if we are ill or not at home or decide to have a take-away. But by doing it and saving money we will have extra money to be able to get a take-away every now and then.
I found the idea of the monthly meal planner here on pinterest, so used this for todays task. It doesn't seem possible that I have done over a week already.
