Follow-up on Meal Calendars

A couple of you (of my wonderful six readers!) asked me for some more information regarding the earlier post about Groceries.  Below is a copy of both my February grocery list and calendar.  This calendar of meals is not my most creative or adventurous, but it is the one we have followed this month.  Because my grocery list is so long I have taken to putting it into an excel sheet as well, and organizing it loosely based on where I would find it in the store.  I have also added a coupon column to help me remember that I have one for specific items.  This is a work in progress, and I am making adjustments month to month where necessary.  For example, I realized this month that I did not plan for enough healthy snack options for an entire month, nor enough drink options.

Looking at the calendar there are many repeat meals.  This is mostly because the meals are only shared by two people at the moment, and one batch of soup or one casserole is definitely enough to last several days.  For a family of four I would assume that a standard casserole would be enough for one meal only (with perhaps some leftovers). And a batch of soup or stew would probably only last 2 nights instead of 3 (or 4 as sometimes happens for us).

I hope this is helpful and if anyone has questions or would like some easy recipes that I actually use pretty regularly, just let me know!