Weekly Dinner Menu

by Jenny
(Columbus, OH, USA)

In our family, we always have a weekly dinner menu stuck to the fridge. I only grocery shop once a week. At the beginning of each week, I write up a dinner menu. Using the menu as a guide, I make a shopping list and only buy the food that we need for that week.

When making my menu I'll try to list meals for the week that use a lot of the same ingredients, so we don't end up wasting half a bag of celery or some other ingredient. If I put a few meals on the menu that require more expensive ingredients, I try to balance out the cost with a few cheaper meals. We have a rotating list of stock "cheap" meals like spaghetti or biscuits and gravy, and we try to incorporate one of them every week.

Doing it this way eliminates impulse buys, the need for extra trips to the store during the week, and going out to eat or ordering a pizza because you don't know what to make for dinner that night. I also find that in addition to saving us money, making dinner based on a menu spares me a lot of stress.
At dinnertime I just look at the menu and do whatever it says, knowing that I already have all the ingredients. I only have to think about dinners once a week, and that's that.

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