Your Monthly Meal Planner

One of my greatest challenges as a mom has been figuring out how to plan meals.  It's not just the amount of time it takes to prepare and cook the meal.  It's figuring out shopping lists, budgeting, and organizing the week of meals for your family.  There are multiple pay-for-subscription sites that offer meal planning complete with shopping lists--I've never been able to bring myself to do that.  But I just found a monthly meal planner that meticulously lays out what you're going to prepare, when you're going to eat it, and how you're going to shop for it.
It's nothing fancy--and that's what I like about it.  No special diet recommendations, no limits on what kinds of foods you'll prepare, and no elaborate web layout.  It's simple and easy.  There is a "weekly snapshot" that lays out what each week will look like.  This week's menu includes chicken brunswick stew with fully loaded biscuits; grandma's sloppy joes, veggies, and dill dip; chicken caccittore with rice; whiskey marinated steak with potatoes and mushroom, cranberry chicken, garlic chicken with artichokes, and bacon pie with pumpkin cobbler.  You have your basic standby's (sloppy joes, chicken soup), some flavorful alternatives (whiskey marinated steak), and some daring changes (bacon pie and pumpkin cobbler).  And I love how the meals suit the time of year.  Pumpkin cobbler is definitely a great autumn/winter dish.
I don't care who you are--any time you can have your work made easier for it, you should definitely take advantage of it.  So start planning your meals with the Monthly Meal Planner today!

http://monthlymealplanner.com/