Planning meals for you and your family can be challenging enough, but when you are trying to ensure that your family eat a healthy, balanced diet, while also sticking to a budget, it can start to feel impossible. But don’t worry! We have put together some of our top family meal planning hacks that will make planning the meals for your family much easier, cost you less money, and encourage your children to eat well and live healthier lives. Get the Whole Family Involved in Meal Planning As … [Read more...]
How to Start Meal Planning
This post contains affiliate links. Why should you start planning your meals? A few reasons are that it’s healthier, it’s easier, and it’s cheaper. Rather than asking everyone what they want each night and trying to figure out what you have and don’t have, simply plan your meals for the week or month. No more debating. Planning meals allows for less takeout food and more fruits and veggies. If you plan your meals you will know exactly what is needed at the grocery store each week so that you … [Read more...]
Mustard Glazed Salmon
It's time to start eating healthy! Check out this Mustard Glazed Salmon recipe from eMeals Heart Healthy Meal Plan. I love that they provide a weekly meal plan and shopping list. You don't have to think at all, just cook! Mustard-Glazed Salmon Ingredients: 6 (4-oz) salmon fillets ¼ tsp pepper 2 Tbsp whole-grain Dijon mustard 2 Tbsp honey 2 tsp chopped fresh or dried rosemary Directions: Preheat oven to 450°F. Place salmon, skin side down, on a foil-lined rimmed baking … [Read more...]
Quick and Easy Recipes & Freezer Meals
Now that you have learned How to Start a Meal Plan, Creating a Healthy Meal Plan and received Meal Planning Shopping tips, here are some recipes to add to your meal plan. Smoothies Smoothies are one of the fastest and healthiest meals that you can make and eat. They taste good, and they’re great for on the go families. Be sure to invest in a quality blender in order to create smooth “smoothies” rather than chunky ones. Quality blenders will extract all of those nutrients that your body … [Read more...]
Meal Planning Shopping Tips
Buy in bulk. Although you should not purchase perishable goods in bulk, and some things are more expensive in bulk, you should do your research and buy anything in bulk that you can that is less expensive when more than normal is bought at once. Often times you can find things like seeds and nuts, as well as oats and grains in bulk at a lower cost than purchasing them every shopping trip. Purchase large quantities of meat, especially through services like Zaycon, you can get a nice discount … [Read more...]
Creating a Healthy Meal Plan
We have previously talked about how to start meal planning. Now let's talk about making those meals healthy. After you have selected the food choices that you enjoy eating, go through to make sure that you don’t have too much of one thing over others. Color coding types of meals can help in doing this. If you have young children who are picky, finding healthy ways to eat the foods that they like is a beneficial option in the balancing phase of meal planning. Be sure to fit in 2-3 cups of … [Read more...]
New Year- New Meal Planning Printable!
Lets be honest- we all need a little help planning out meals and making sure we get everything we need when we go to the store. Well here it is! Your printable weekly meal plan with a cut off grocery list (nicely organized- I need that!) included! Start the year off right with a little more organization and a lot less stress! I can help you get started with your meal plan with my new meal planning series! Suggestions- Print one and laminate it- then its reusable! Maybe you take the whole … [Read more...]
Printable Weekly Meal Planner
This post contains affiliate links. As I was doing some blog hopping a few days ago I stumbled across this cute FREE PRINTABLE meal planner! It comes from The Executive Mom who has generously shared it on Tip Junkie! You can click the link and download it for free and print out as many copies as you want! Printable Weekly Meal Planner This is really going to help me with my goal of meal planning this year (which, by the way, is a struggle). This goes above and beyond my meal planning goals as … [Read more...]
