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3 Reasons I Meal Plan

December 29, 2017 Katy Leave a Comment

How do you spend your Saturday afternoon? Reading a book?  Catching up on housework?  Hanging out with your family?

For me, all of those are a possibility, but the one thing I never skip? Meal planning.

It’s not the most exciting way to spend my day, and there are plenty of other things that I find more fun.  But I know that the time I spend planning our food is worth it.

I want to feed my family mostly homemade, mostly unprocessed food.  And it has to taste good, or they won’t eat it.  If I don’t have a plan, we either scrounge for whatever’s in the pantry or go out to eat.  The pantry plan might work for a few days, but eventually the family is going to want something besides chicken, beans, and rice.  And while pizza and a movie night are fun occasionally, that’s not something we can do all the time, for the sake of our waistlines and our budget.

I want to stick to my grocery budget. Speaking of budgets, we have a fairly small one for our family of six-going-on-seven.  Which means that without some careful planning, I can run out of money before the end of the month.  In order to stay on track, I have to plan.

This means things like:

  • having a general idea of how much things cost
  • shopping from what I have in the freezer and pantry first
  • using things up before they go bad

None of that is going to happen without a plan.

I don’t want to spend all of my time in the kitchen.  Sure, I can always find something to eat in our house, but it may involve some extra steps or time I don’t have, depending on the meal.  If I plan ahead, I can make extras of repeated ingredients, make use of appliances that do the work for me like the crockpot and instant pot, and just generally use my time better.

And I can make sure I don’t have three complicated meals on a super busy day.  Because who wants to wake up on an already full day to realize you’re supposed to bake muffins for breakfast, roast veggies for lunch, and cook a complicated chicken dish with a few sides for dinner? Not me.

Meal planning helps keep me on track.  And that’s worth the time to me.

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