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Easy Recipes for October - Weekly Meal Planning - Woman's Day
Ir's easy to create a meal plan for your family, just pick the things they will eat and you are willing to make. There are many on-line already made for you like Woman's Day which feature seasonal ingredients.
One of the tools that help money planning and controls spending is the use of a meal plan. You can eliminate that stressful feeling that hits as you walk through the door 'what can I make for dinner?' You can avoid the stop at the fast food take-out and all that unhealthy fat, sodium, and unplanned spending since you have a plan.
Your meal plan has potential to save a significant sums when you enjoy eating at home and choose restaurant meals as special occasion & celebratory events. The extra benefit is knowing the ingredients used since so many restaurants now used prepackaged, 'convenience' foods full of unpronounceable chemicals and preservatives. The research clearly demonstrates eating out costs more than double the cost of the same meal prepared at home before you add in the costs of driving, parking, tax and tips. Have you compared the cost of a glass of wine?
If you're exhausted at meal time, prep your ingredients on your days off or each evening or early AM and get all the family involved. Everyone needs to learn to cook and it can be fun.
Finally, we all have food in our fridge, cupboard & pantry which if not used goes bad, expires and goes to landfill. We may as well stand outside and burn $20. bills.
Ir's easy to create a meal plan for your family, just pick the things they will eat and you are willing to make. There are many on-line already made for you like Woman's Day which feature seasonal ingredients.
One of the tools that help money planning and controls spending is the use of a meal plan. You can eliminate that stressful feeling that hits as you walk through the door 'what can I make for dinner?' You can avoid the stop at the fast food take-out and all that unhealthy fat, sodium, and unplanned spending since you have a plan.
Your meal plan has potential to save a significant sums when you enjoy eating at home and choose restaurant meals as special occasion & celebratory events. The extra benefit is knowing the ingredients used since so many restaurants now used prepackaged, 'convenience' foods full of unpronounceable chemicals and preservatives. The research clearly demonstrates eating out costs more than double the cost of the same meal prepared at home before you add in the costs of driving, parking, tax and tips. Have you compared the cost of a glass of wine?
If you're exhausted at meal time, prep your ingredients on your days off or each evening or early AM and get all the family involved. Everyone needs to learn to cook and it can be fun.
Finally, we all have food in our fridge, cupboard & pantry which if not used goes bad, expires and goes to landfill. We may as well stand outside and burn $20. bills.