Meal Planning for you & your Family

Sometimes it can be hard to meal plan while being engulfed in mom life. Where I’ve found success in meal planning is working my meal plan with my dinner plans for the week. We have all been through the back and forth of “Whats for dinner?” and the reality that happens when we don’t have something planned.

I keep our family dinner plan on our command center board in our kitchen, it keeps me ready/prepared and lets the hubby and kids know what the plan is.

In my meal plan, my breakfast, lunch and snacks are planned standalone. Some lunches will play off of the night before dinner, but I make the jest of my plan first.

Then when planning my dinners and the families I cross mingle them. For example, the family dinner for Monday is breakfast for dinner. I’ll make them bacon, pancakes and eggs. For myself I’ll have a veggie omelet. We all have breakfast for dinner, but I have a healthier option. I hear a lot of people that will say they don’t’ eat healthier because they don’t want to make two separate meals for the family and then one for them. But if you plan it out that isn’t the case.

Tuesday the family will have Fajitas, I’ll take the meat and veggies from the fajitas and put them on a salad.

Wednesday the family and I will have pork loin and sweet potatoes and another veggie.

Thursday, I will make stuffed peppers for myself and the hubby, but for the kids I take the pepper filling and will make them quesadillas with it.

There will be nights that I have something completely different than them, but I use leftovers and meal prep from other days so I’m not cooking me a full separate meal, I’m just warming something up.

It becomes pretty easy once you’ve done it a few times and start thinking outside the box of how you can use the ingredients you are cooking more than one way.