Do you meal plan?

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Any tips or tricks you’ve found that made it easier.,, less stressful

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We do! We have a freezer full of meals that just need to be thrown into the oven/ air fryer/ pressure cooker. We freeze them in individual servings. And we also prep our lunches every week as well. We have a google sheet that has all of the recipes that we will reliably eat no matter what (it’s about 20 things) then on another page it’s all the recipes we want to try. Once a month, we choose 8-10 meals off the always eat list and then about 4 off the try list. We but everything for the always eat list at the vector the month, cook it all and freeze it. Then we buy stuff for a new meal to try once a week. I’m the only one who eats breakfast, but I almost always prep that too-either have breakfast casserole, French toast, waffles, or oatmeal ready to go in the freezer at all times. For all our groceries we spend about $140-160 a month

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I don’t even understand how you would grocery shop without meal planning. Like, do people just grab random stuff and hope it works. Or what?

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I'm shitty with coming up with meals so I've always had to plan them. I take links of the recipes my family would like to have that week, put the links together in a word document and write down a shopping list of the ingredients I'd need for them (even easier if you order your food shop online for delivery, can look for recipes and add things to your basket at the same time), when I'm cooking, I look back on the word document and just open up whatever recipe link I want to cook that day. I use Google docs so I can access it easily on whatever device, really simple

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Yes. Saves a lot of unnecessary spending at the grocery store too

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We have a weekly whiteboard that we use for this.

Do you meal plan?

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