My life is hectic- to say the least. With running MoolaSavingMom, being a Mom to 4, Running a household, being a wife, and just being Me- sometimes I look up and suddenly it’s 5 pm! Then I wander around trying to decide what to have for dinner but I find nothing but frozen chicken and beef. What to do?
Too often we were eating scrambled eggs or grilled cheese. Not that those aren’t perfectly suitable meals- but we were just having them too often.
So I decided I needed to get more organized. I needed to have a loose plan for dinner each night. First I thought about printing out a menu but then I thought- that’s a page a week I’d rather use that paper and ink for COUPONS.
Then I thought about buying a whiteboard- they had cheap small ones at the Dollar Tree but I didn’t like their look and nicer ones at other stores were $6+. I really didn’t want to spend money on such a simple item (yes I am that cheap)
So I went into my closets and found a Dollar store frame and put this inside!
Download: Printable Dinner Menu
I put it in the frame and use a white board marker and voila! Now I can quickly plan out a dinner menu for the week.. A quick glance and I can pull out the meat or other items needed for tomorrow’s dinner the night before!
On the calendar in the kitchen, I write our meals at the bottom of the day. In the morning, I know what to take out and I don’t have to answer the question “What’s for dinner?”
Love the board and I already have everything to make it!! Thanks Jessie!!
So, you just write on the glass of the frame with dry-erase marker and it works like a white board?
Yep!
Neat! Thanks for the idea and printable!
i love that i ideal. i a think i will try, laminating mine.
thanks