Episode 30 Weekly Meal Plan and Planning From Your Pantry, Fridge, Freezer

Title: Weekly Meal Plan and Planning From Your Pantry, Fridge and Freezer

 

Description: All too often, I feel we start meal planning sometimes a little bit backwards LOL! We pick our recipes and then we buy the ingredients and then we make those recipes, right?

What if for a moment, we reversed engineered meal planning Here's what I mean…. What if instead of picking recipes first we took an inventory of what we had and worked from there?

 

Not only will this feel so good, and it will help eliminate food waste, and stress. I bet that it will make it a little bit easier, and it might even lower your grocery bill this week, as you probably already have a lot of the things in your fridge, freezer and pantry.

 

And to help you get started, I have a free inventory workbook with templates to take inventory of your fridge, freezer, and pantry that you can download for free at bit.ly/busy Mama meal planning and you can start taking inventory of what you have and then create a list so you always know what you have on hand, and what you need.

 

Weekly Meal Plan:

Monday- chicken parmesan, with pasta, and green beans

Tuesday- shepherd's pie

Wednesday- sheet pan fajitas

Thursday- beef and broccoli on rice

Friday-breakfast for supper-Crepes

Saturday-chicken nuggets and fries

Sunday-Wendy’s Chili

 

Instant pot hacks: Make your rice in the instant pot. I cup rice in 2 cups of water.  Put on high for 3 minutes and natural release for 10.  Will give you fluffy rice

 

 I challenge yourself this week to reverse engineer your meal planning and start by working with what you already have. It may just  simplify your life and leave you feeling pleasantly surprised!

 

Other tips to save time and energy:

• Carve out time to prep and plan

• Double batch where you can. Ie. double mashed potatoes, rice and ground beef

•  Pantry fridge, freezer shop and use what you have
• Didn’t make all your meals you planned-no biggie, make them this week
•  Let your gadgets do the hard work for you
•  Multi-task where you can
• What are a couple simple things you can prep for breakfast, lunch even dinner
• Keep a sink of soapy water to wash and rinse as you go-saves time on clean up

 

Here’s what to do next:

 

Step #1: Download your free Inventory Guide: bit.ly/busymamamealplanning

 

Step #2: Follow me on Facebook for more dinner and meal planning tips and hacks  @ busymamamealplanning

 

Step #3:  Book your FREE No strings attached Meal Planning Coffee Chat to help accelerate your meal planning journey! 

 

Happy to help! Have questions, send me a DM @blagagoertzen.

 

Again, thanks again for being here! I’m so grateful for you! And I’ll be waiting for you in my next episode!

 

Xx Blaga