If I wanted to make meal planning easier, here's exactly what I would do.
three easy steps that you can do today.
If you are new here, four years ago my husband and I started doing whole30 with a baby and a toddler. By the end of week one, I was OVER IT. Not because of the food, but because of how much time I had spent cooking and cleaning my darn kitchen.
I sat down with my husband and said that I needed to come up with a system to make this easier. We are both engineers and love a schedule, standard operating procedure, excel table, etc. I sat down and made “standard operating procedures” for our household. A little while later, friends asked to see my three ring binder that I operated our kitchen out of. My goals were to cook less, save money on groceries, and feed our family healthy food. After my friends saw my binder, they kept telling me that I ran my kitchen like a CFO.
After a few months of implementing and tweaking my system, I lost weight, felt better and was saving money on groceries. If I were starting from square one on whipping my kitchen in shape and meal planning, here’s exactly what I would do:
(Printables for my meal planning system are at the bottom for paid subscribers)