Find Your Menu Quickly

Hi Friends,

I am glad to be sharing my family menu organization method with you.  My family menu is a big part of my life.  I always have my menu with me.  I can quickly glance at it while I am at the store.  I can plan for company to come over and I already know what we will be offering for dinner.

If you have followed the steps in the previous two posts, then by now you know you will need to make a list of 36 entrees that your family likes to eat and you will have made a 7 column by 6 row grid. Label the top of your grid with the days of the week.   Pick the one day each week that you aren't going to cook.  I call if "left over day," you might call it Going Out To Eat Day or something else clever.  Make sure to block out your leftover day so you don't accidentally "plan" it.  Add your entree's to your grid in a manner that makes sense to you.

Now that your entrees are mapped out, add the side dishes that you think go with them.  Write it down on your grid so all of your thoughts are collected to one place.  Want to add a dessert or treat to your meal?  Add it here.

Now that you have all of your meals planned on a piece of paper you are done, right?  Where will this paper be in a couple of weeks?  Will you honestly be able to find it?  When you are at the store and trying to remember what you need to get, how can you recall what you need?  This is a tricky situation in deed!

Let me share how I solved this dilemma.  You have a cell phone, don't you?  That phone has a calendar on it right?  Let's take a few minutes to plug your grid into your phone.  Each cell of your grid is a day on your calendar.  As you add a day to your phone calendar, check the REPEAT button.  Set each meal to repeat every 6 weeks.  Ta Da!!  You have just created a perpetual menu generator.  As long as you have your phone with you, you also have your menu.  Congratulations on your new found meal organization.

Good luck getting your meal preferences planned out and saved to your phone!

Thanks for checking in,
Jill

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