Meal Planning

Trying to eat healthy was turning out to be time consuming and expensive. Well at least the way we went about it when we first tried changing our eating habits.


We would go food shopping at Whole Foods and spend a million dollars.  During the week, things always came up and we didn't have the time to decide on, cook, and clean up dinner so we would eat pizza.  And at the end of the week would end up throwing out a lot of the food we bought from Whole Foods because we never cooked and it all went bad.


We needed to find a better way, and planning ahead (about a week) turned out to be the best way to eat healthy with a busy schedule. 


So, we put together a meal planning template in excel (because Melissa is a dork and everything has to be in an excel spreadsheet) and we fill it out every week.  It helps us come up with a food shopping list, talk about our schedules for the following week, and most importantly, really think about what we were going to be eating. 


We tried to make it as simple as possible so we would actually use it.  (We do, you can ask my brother because he teases us about it.)  We encourage you to take a look and try it out! Let us know how it works out for you and your families.


We were unable to attach the file on our blog, but if you would like for us to email it to you, please email us at melicipes@gmail.com. We'll work on seeing if there is a way to do this...