Saturday, October 5, 2013

FAMILY: How to make a 15-day Menu Planner


In this time that everything is in rush, a working mom (or dad) should maximize her/his time by planning most of what they will do. One of the most helpful thing I made on my busy day is making a menu plan. In this blog, i will share to you how to make a menu plan for a week, or a month. On my college years, (i was a Hotel & Restaurant Management graduate by the way) we are tasked to make a one-month menu! and not just a simple menu, it should have a breakfast, morning snack, lunch, afternoon snack and dinner - 2 to 3 variants per meal. And it didn't stop there, it should have a recipe that is handwritten and converted into servings of 10-20-50!

Anyways, what i will share to you is a simple menu planning.

You should start with writing down the date of the month with the day on the side in order to determine the weekends. (i will tell you later in this blog why you need to determine weekeneds.)

Then write down what meal are you planning to prepare for the family. Do you all eat breakfast, am&pm snacks, lunch, dinner?

In my menu below, I only made 2 columns for breakfast and dinner as we are only at our house during breakfast and dinner.

Next, write down what viands you want for this week or for the 15-day period or for 1-month period and categorize this to meat(pork/beef) , fish/seafood , chicken, & vegetables
     Example:
        











After you had written your preferred viands, you are now ready to make a menu.

Write one pork, chicken, seafood, & vegetable viand per week. Make sure that you are not writing pork on a monday and tuesday or 2 in one week, one pork viand per week only.

On breakfasts, alternately put rice and bread so as to minimize rice intake as well for a healthier body.

You have to take note also that if you have tocino for breakfast, do not put a pork on a dinner. Or if you put daing na bangus on breakfast, do not put sinigang na bangus or inihaw na bangus on dinner. You might get fed up.

On weekends, most of the time, we go out on a lunch that's why i did not put anything on lunch. . Earlier, I told you why i mark the weekends, this is so we can change the menu by trying some pasta or experiment on new dishes. We can make a special dinner on weekends as it is our family day

Below is the 15-day menu i made for this month.






















By planning a menu , you can save time, money and effort.
MONEY, because you will only buy what is on the menu.
TIME, you will do the grocery one time only because you already know what you will cook in the whole week.
EFFORT,you will not worry what you will cook at the end of the day or the next morning.

I hope that this menu planning will be helpful to you in any way. If you have questions or you need help in making one,  don't hesitate to contact me thru this blog.

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