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Once you have written down the ingredients you need either make a grocery pick-up order (my favorite!) OR keep it in list form and take it shopping with you to the store.So usually the things on my list are fresh produce, meats, and canned ingredients. My kitchen is pretty well stocked with all the essentials for baking, spices, seasonings, etc. I go to each recipe I want to make and write down the things from that recipe that I need to buy.So here they are! New & improved and hopefully more helpful for you.
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But I as wrong! As soon as I deleted the weekly menu plans I got so many emails, comments and messages saying that you want them back.
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I have since gotten rid of them in order to clean up my site a bit and I never really got feedback on them so I assumed no one used them. I used to post these weekly menu plans when I first started this food blog of mine, back in 2015. But I don't always have the time for that, which never seems to stop me from doing it :), and I would imagine lots of people don't menu plan because of the time it takes to do it. I don't know about you but I love to menu plan! I am one of those weird people that love to scour the Internet, other food blogs, my own site, to find meals for my menu plan. Use this menu plan to help jump start you for your own planning or follow it day by day and have it all ready for you. Easy meal plans that are tried & true family favorite recipes and kid-friendly.