Menu Plan Monday - and a free download!
My husband and I have been working on some new healthy eating habits, which for this month include a challenge to ourselves to NOT eat fast food or drink soda - not ONE TIME - this month of May. We are notorious for buying groceries and then still taking the quick and easy way out several times a week with McDonald’s and Burger King and all the rest. Our wallets are slim, and our waistlines are NOT. Thus, the challenge.
What does that have to do with digi-scrappin’? Not a whole lot, I realize. Unless you count the fact that I no longer have a big Route 44 Diet Coke from Sonic sitting next to me when I’m working on my computer. (And believe me, I am missing it!) Well, that and I decided to make our menu plan a little more exciting by digi-scrappin’ it each week. And I decided to share a blank version with anyone who visits my blog and wants it!
So, here is our menu for this week (started yesterday). Please bear in mind that for lunch, it’s just me and my 3 year old son… and my 1 year old daughter who is only just starting to actually eat “real” food… so the lunch menu is pretty boring. Interestingly enough, that’s just how I like it. Boring = easy, and that’s what I need these days! You can click on it to see it in better detail.
And you can click HERE to download a free BLANK version to use for yourself. The menu planner is in JPG format, and should fit nicely on an 8.5×11 sheet of paper. The papers I used for the planner are courtesy of Dani Mogstad of DesignByDani.com
If you are looking for help with your menu planning, you can check out a ton of other great menu plans for the week by visiting Organizing Junkie.
May 4th, 2008 at 9:37 pm
Welcome to MPM! It sure helps to help curb those drive-in and drive-up blues
Thanks for the menu plan digiscrap. Now to figure out how to post it on a stainless steel fridge.
May 4th, 2008 at 9:40 pm
Welcome to MPM, love your meal plan and your format rocks! We too are eating more healthy and sticking to the meal plan is seriously helping the budget. Good luck with your plan for May … great idea, might have to borrow it!
May 4th, 2008 at 9:44 pm
It’s me again Char.
I downloaded the file, now can you tell me how I can put my menu onto the jpg to print out?
May 5th, 2008 at 4:06 am
Hi Char! Just adding some confusion since I am also Char. I love the Menu Plan worksheet - too cute.
Have a great week.
May 5th, 2008 at 6:28 am
Prettiest menu plan I have seen. I have just stopped drinking diet coke too. I also miss it!
May 5th, 2008 at 7:29 am
The menu plan looks like a great idea - thanks for sharing!
May 5th, 2008 at 10:00 am
Great menu, everything looks yummy
Thank you for the download, I love it
Menu Plan
May 5th, 2008 at 1:25 pm
Great menu. Thanks for sharing.
May 5th, 2008 at 1:47 pm
Love the menu idea! Super
May 6th, 2008 at 6:51 am
What a wonderful idea. I will pass this on to my busy mom friends. They will love it. Actually, I think my hubby might like the idea of knowing what we will have everyday.
May 6th, 2008 at 9:07 pm
Cute menu banner, I’m not very technical so I had no idea either how to use it for my menu but I do think it’s very pretty
Have a great week!
May 7th, 2008 at 11:20 am
Someone at Digishoptalk.com posted your link in a thread looking for blogs to read. I clicked, and what’s almost the first thing I read? AAAAGGGHHHHH!!!! I MISS MY SONIC!!!!!!! A Route 44 Dr Pepper is crying out to me and I DON’T HAVE A SONIC!!!!!! Ok, hystrionics over.. maybe. I moved from Texas to IL three years ago. The closest Sonic to me now is over a two hour drive away in a city I’m not familiar with. Anyway, LOL.. nice blog, I added to favorites, so, bless your heart, you will now be subjected to my irrelevant and probably irreverent comments on a semi regular basis. Nice to meet you! (THIS is what happens when Zyrtec goes OTC. I’m usually not this obnoxious but allergy season has struck..me down)