Save time with meal planning...

I don't know about you, but most days I find there are not enough hours to accomplish everything I need to do in any given day.  I noticed many times after juggling all the priorities I was exhausted; and at the end of the day, the last thing I wanted to do was cook dinner.  This led to eating out, ordering in, or preparing quick, unhealthy meals.

What my problem was... I dreaded grocery shopping!   The process seemed to take up so much of my time when I already had very little to spare.  Instead of planning and purchasing what I would need for the week, I'd run in and pick up the priorities like milk, bread, and cereal and a few things to make a few dinners.  Then when I'd go to prepare the meal, I'd find that I had forgotten a key ingredient or didn't have something good to go with it.  This resulted in a repeat visit to the grocery store or dinner out.

After many frustrating evenings and a look at how much our family was spending on eating out, I decided that I needed to make a change.  I figured that if I planned out my meals for the entire week, made a detailed list of what I needed to purchase (and stick to the list) that I would save some time by not having to make several trips a week to the store and save money by reducing the amount of times we ate out.

There are many meal planning sites online, but the one I found very easy to use is on MealsMatter.org.  Good Luck!