
1. It helps me to plan.
2.It inspires me to try and make a better variety of foods.
3. It inspires me to try and make new foods that have fancy sounding names:)
4. I think it looks cute.
5. It saves me time. I am forgetful sometimes. In the past, I remember forgetting what meals I had planned and would have to dig through my pantry and figure it out from the ingredients I had bought days before.
6. I cook more often! My family really benefits from it. I made a goal when we moved here about 2 years ago, to cook more. I no longer wanted my family eating fast food and frozen dinners so often. The only things I actually cooked were things like spaghetti, hot dogs, tacos-the basics. Now I'm venturing out and trying new things and its fun. Its become a new hobby for me(and Joey doesn't mind that at all!) Its just not healthy to eat out all the time and it doesn't teach the kids good eating habits. Instead of saying, "I don't know what to make for dinner" I already have it written down and planned. Of course, this requires planning beforehand. I sit down for about 30 minutes and plan a menu for the upcoming week. I really try to only go to the grocery store once a week. I use the cooking blog, This Mama Loves To Cook, for a lot of great new ideas. Check it out if you haven't already! I also have other great recipe blogs I've found on my sidebar.
7. The kids love it-Aubrey will read it in the morning to see what we are having for dinner that night. Sometimes she'll look and see that we had the wrong meal the wrong night and call me on it. Sometimes you have to adjust to your schedule, geesh! :)
I would recommend this to anyone that needs a little help in the cooking department. It really helps to have a visual somewhere where you have everything written down for the week. Before, I would write it down on a piece of paper and sometimes I would lose it. Its great to have it nice and big and where you can see it. If you don't have space on your wall, then one of those magnet dry erase boards on the fridge would work well too(my friend, Sarah, does that). So, anyways, just a tip from lil ole me. And I'm not saying we don't eat out or eat fast food-yeah right. I love eating out! But this has really helped me to limit how often we do.
So, happy cooking!
17 comments:
I love your chalkboard. I need to find one. Maybe it would inspire me to plan out my meals for the week. :)
Not too shabby an idea. Ba-da-ba-ba-ba, I'm lovin' it!
Great idea, I love to cook but I forget all the time what I had planned. I just might use this idea!
smart idea, chicky! i need to get more on the ball!
Great thought! I love it -- maybe it means we need a trip to IKEA sometime soon. I love that place -- and it would be fun to pick this up for a few$$.
Dude, you are a GENIUS!! I love this ida. I think it would actually help me want to cook for my family if I had one of these. What a great idea!!!
i can't take the credit for this idea! i stole it from a friend in my ward at church:)
great idea...have fun cooking away
Elders are coming on Sun...what should I fix?
I need one but don't have a wall big enough in the kitchen. Maybe I will try one on the fridge like Sarah. I definately need help in this department!!
I love it! I have a chalkboard and write our meals on it some weeks. It is nice to have things planned out, and then I erase when a meal is done. Don't you love Ikea?
Its such a good idea. I've got a dry erase board on the refrigerator door in which i do the same thing...along with the bills we have to pay that week, and i check them off one by one. Lol... it really has helped me though, because my husband will see it and remind me. :)
Your chalk board is so cute. I have a little chalk board in my kitchen as well. I just love it! MIne has a gingerbread lady hanging onto it, coz well, gingerbread people are my absolute favourite things!
Janet Mollat has one too and I think it's a great idea! I saw hers when I did the bread making class at her house.
yep, thats who i stole the idea from!
Couldn't agree with you more! I love having the weeks menu right in front of me ! :)
you always have such great 'mothering' ideas--you are an awesome Mom!!!
This is a great idea. I think it helps as well in the shopping department as you get just the ingredients you need for the meals you had planned. Awesome we should all be so organized.
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