Flashback Friday, Menu Planning Organizing Meal Boxes
Menu Planning Meal Boxes – clip your recipe to the front, fill the boxes with the ingredients needed, & carry to your workstation using the recipe to cook.
I’m a big fan of menu planning. Â I really believe it is the best tip anyone can follow when it comes to reducing your household’s grocery cost. Â When you buy only the things you plan for, then less goes to waste. Â 2nd best tip, don’t go grocery shopping hungry!
This is my favorite way to keep my pantry these days. Â These little menu boxes were one of those ‘ah-ha moments’ – and they’re really so simple, I don’t know why I never thought of them before. Â Each week when I go shopping, I can simply place the non-perishable items in my meal boxes & clip the recipe to the front. Â When I’ m ready to cook dinner – I just grab the box, load in the perishable ingredients, & take it over to my workstation. Â My recipe is right there – and everything I need to cook is right at my hands.
They’re really simple to make – and really cheap. Â I went to the Dollar Store for my containers. Â I purchased 7 tub like containers for just $1 a piece. Â You could go for smaller tubs than what I used too. You also need a pack of small binder clips (with the office supplies), I purchased 12 of them for $0.88 cents at WalMart. Â Oh, and hot glue. Â Gotta have the hot glue.
Simply glue the binder clip to the container.
Simply clip on your recipe.
Place them in your pantry, like I’ve done in mine.
I seriously love these things, my pantry is so much more organized now, and meal time is that much easier.
This is GEEENNNNIIUUUS! I meal plan (for a living, too) and “shop” from my pantry. I put a week-long list of dinners on the refrigerator. But, sometimes, my three ravenous men-folk in my house will eat something that I’ve got planned to use later in the week. This container-izing of meals will solve that issue! LOVE. IT.