Menu Idea

I came up with this idea years ago and it really helps with managing dinners during the busy week. Every grocery day, I sit down and create a menu for the upcoming week with enough meals to go until Friday (cheat/eat out day). I don't label days because if I don't feel like something that night, we choose otherwise. I then sit down and make a list for the grocery store that has all of the ingredients to the meals, breakfasts, extras we need, etc. I then go through my cabinets and mark through the stuff we already have. This technique has allowed me to cut my shopping costs down dramatically.

All you need for this is:

a frame (I found this cool one at Hobby Lobby-it's for scrapbooking projects)
scrapbook paper for a background
letters to say what you want it to
dry erase markers


I write it out and when we're done with it, we erase and start over. It hangs on my wall in my kitchen so we can see it.