We all know that planning and preparing meals that come up every week within a family can quickly become a real headache and cause you a lot of headaches! To make your task easier, Les Belles Combines have prepared several ingenious tricks that will allow you to save time and energy when the famous question comes up for the umpteenth time: "What are we eating?" ".
List of your favorite meals
If you have to rummage through all your recipe books every time the time comes to plan your weekly menus, this little combination is for you! You can write down by category (breakfast, lunch, dinner and dessert) all the family's favorite recipes and, above all, those that your children will eat with gusto and without complaining!
The list of your favorite restaurants
Do you ever remember the name of the last little restaurant you tried with friends and where you would like to go back with your spouse? Do you always go to the same family restaurant, for lack of other ideas where to go with the children? You will not only be able to record in this little combination the coordinates of your favorite restaurants , but you will also be able to note the average cost of a meal as well as the type of cuisine found there.
Weekly menu
If you want to save time each week when it comes to meal planning, download and print a few copies of this little cheat sheet , and take a moment to jot down some weekly menu ideas that you can use on a rotational basis. With a space designed to write down all the ingredients you will need to prepare these meals, here is the all-inclusive family meal planning formula!
Recipe sheets
Rather than keeping a library full of books that only end up using two or three recipes, write down your favorite recipes on these cards and include them in your family organization binder . No more endless searching for the ingredients needed to prepare your favorite meals; find them all quickly in one place!
Food preservation time
Nobody likes to waste food, and nobody likes to be sick after eating spoiled food! Because it is sometimes difficult to know if the ham or the rest of the spaghetti lying around in the fridge is still suitable for consumption, keep a copy of this little trick at hand, which will allow you to quickly know the duration of preservation of the majority of foods that are usually found in your fridge or pantry !
For other ideas of little tricks to integrate into the Meal organization and preparation section of your family organization binder , it's here !