I’ve received a few comments about my family monthly menu plan and I thought I would share a little more information. I cannot even begin to emphasize how much easier this makes supper time. No indecisions, no looking thru the pantries/freezer trying to figure out what to cook.

I print out monthly calendars from word and with a pencil in hand I plug meal ideas in and erase and reorganize to fit our needs. A lot of people will opt for a Meatless Monday, which is a good way to remember. In our home our meatless night is Tuesday, and we only have pasta one night a week. I only plan the main meal, I do not plan vegetables etc as that is a given that we are going to have a vegetable. Once I have my menu situated and meals spaced out I then transcribe it onto my main menu plan on the fridge. I use my menu to plan grocery shopping which helps from purchasing those unneccesary purchases.

Woman’s Day has a great Recipe section from their April edition, Eat Well for Less 7 Days of Dinners. A lot of the ingredients are probably already in your pantry. I’ve added the Chicken Fajitas to next months menu plan. Woman’s Day also has a great Month of Menus.

On the side of our fridge is info needed to keep us organized for appointments/work schedules etc.

Yeah, I LOVE organization. My brain seriously cannot take the chaos of disorganization.

Sunday business, same ‘ole-same ‘ole–change bedding and charge cell phone and camera batteries. I don’t need to charge my iPod specifically on Sundays anymore, now that I have my cute little iPod dock! I’ve been working on purging thru unnecessary paperwork this weekend and cleaned off the bookcase in the livingroom to goodwill a number of books that I do not need that are occupying space and attracting dust–neither of which I am a fan of.

I am going to take another break from a long To-Do list again this week. I have a couple of things that I would like to accomplish, but if I don’t, it’s okay. Well, this beautiful day is flying by much too quickly, and I need to get a few things accomplished. 

And a reminder:

{Oh, and I want to post a call out for anyone who may be interested in being a Designer on a weekly sketch blog. There are 4 available openings. If interested send an email to me — jennyperkins AT myfairpoint DOT net Please put Sketch DT in the subject. Please specify if you are a scrapbooker or rubberstamper or both. A link to your blog and one of your  most recent creations {a card or a layout} Announcements will be made here on Saturday, March 28th. I hope you’ll share this with your friends.}

xO-Jenny