once-a-month menu planning

Once-a-Month Menu Planning

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This month’s Eat Well, Spend Less theme is all about back-to-school, with plenty of menu planning tips, meal ideas and more.

As part of my commitment to simplifying for fall and putting some better routines and discipline in place for our family, I decided to go back to menu planning for a full month at a time rather than doing it weekly like I’ve done for the past year or so.

When I did this before, I was struck by how much easier it was to just plan for four weeks at a time and duplicate that plan from month to month, and I can’t honestly say why I stopped doing it!

How to Create a Monthly Menu Plan

With that in mind, I sat down last week and created a four-week menu plan for September, and — as I expected — it really didn’t take much longer than creating a meal plan for a single week.

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