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Menu Planning

A Healthy Menu Plan is one of the most important tools you have at your disposal for creating a healthier lifestyle. 

A Healthy Menu Plan can:

  • Reduce stress
  • Reduce clutter in cupboards and fridge
  • Help you organize your kitchen
  • Create quality family time
  • Increase time spent doing things you enjoy
  • Decrease preparation time for meals
  • Improve your health
  • Save unnecessary stress when unexpected company comes over
  • Get your whole family involved with meal time
  • And ensure your family consumes healthy, well balanced meals

    A Menu Plan is a list of meals you will be preparing in a given time period.  It can include all meals and snacks in a day or only one or two.  I like menu planning dinner as it is around this time that my kids have activities and I start feeling stressed about what I'm going to make for dinner.

Steps for Preparing a Healthy Menu Plan

  • Have each family member list their favourite dinners. Specifically, their favourite chicken, bean, tofu, beef, lamb or pork dish as well as pasta, potato, etc. We recorded these on recipe cards and kept them in a safe place.
  • Put a star beside the ones that take more time to prepare, a check beside the ones that can be cooked in a crock pot and a smiley face beside the ones that are quick and easy.
  • Look at your week's activities to see which ones leave you with the least amount of time in the afternoon to prepare meals. On these days plan a crock pot meal. If you have a day that is more relaxing and provides plenty of time to prepare dinner, why not try a new recipe? On days where there may be only an hour or less to prepare a meal, chose one of the quick and easy recipes.
  • Once this has become more routine, try planning specific main course days. For instance, chicken on Monday, tofu on Friday, fish on Saturday, etc.
  • List the meals on a calendar so you won't have to listen to "What's for Dinner" every few minutes.
  • Create a shopping list of all the ingredients you'll need to create the meals and do a once a week grocery shop. Shopping once a week has saved us over $200.00 a month on our grocery bill. Why? I'm not running out to the store a couple of times a week to get last minute items. We all know what happens when we walk in to the grocery store intent on purchasing one item! We end up walking out with four or five items and a bill ten times higher than we had thought it would be.  Making a grocery list and shopping once a week saves you from all those extras you don't really need.

     

     

     




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    Building the Healthy Menu Plan

    What is a Healthy Menu Plan?

  • Healthy
  • Well-Balanced
  • Tasty
  • Satisfying
  • Healing
  • Quick
  • Easy
  • Reduces Stress
  • Meals Everyone Likes

    • A Healthy Menu Plan is satisfying to make and enjoyable to eat!

    Quick Tips for Preparing Your Menu Plan

  • Make sure everyone is on board and helping out
  • List favourite meals
  • Shop from your plan
  • Be consistent
  • Match meals with preparation time
  • Invest in a crockpot
  • Make large batches and freeze
  • Plan a once a week shopping trip
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