I'm trying to get more organised with menu planning and shopping. I've set up an EXCEL spreadsheet with one tab for menus for each month and another tab with individual recipes. This has the key ingredients listed. Now, if you do Sains online, there is a facility to paste a shopping list in and it finds the ingredients. So you can take each of these recipes and get the items into your shopping basket that way. Very handy if, like me, you're prone to forget to buy the key ingredients! Might not plan ahead more than 2 weeks (and that includes freezer meals of larger portions) but because a record is being kept, over time I'll be able to come back and use the menus again.
We'll see how it goes but at least a start at getting organised and moving away from the default meal setting of pasta and red sauce with veg. There is a section called quick and easy (but please not beans on toast!) if you have any ideas to go in there.
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