Mommy
Anything you can do before the dinner hour will make your meal prep time so much easier.
The biggest time and money saving thing you can do is to make a meal plan. I read a great eBook by Angela Coffman that taught me so much about meal planning. She suggested making a Master Meal Plan. I chose to make 2 full months. Now, at the beginning of each month I can just take my master plan and plug in the weeks I want. While I make my meal plan I also have my grocery list by my side. I put the items I need to buy for the meals on the grocery list and I make a separate list of items I need to check and see if we need them on the grocery list. When I am done planning, I go to the pantry and freezer to check and add to the grocery list as needed.
One of the best things I have done for grocery shopping is to make a master grocery list and arrange it by isle in the grocery store. This takes a fair amount of work upfront but it makes shopping so much faster! I print the list out and keep it on the fridge. When I need to add something to the list I just grab the highlighter and mark what I need.
Making dinner in the morning so it can just be put in the oven at dinner time or using the slow cooker are awesome ways to minimize the "dinner time craziness".
Love Always,
Mommy
