It was a very easy to plan the family meals for this week, as we head off for our Easter Holidays on Thursday morning, which left me only three meals for to cook this week at home:
Monday: Tacos
Tuesday: Vietnamese Beef with Noodles (Recipe attached)
Wednesday: Sausages and Salad
Baking: Chocolate Balls (Recipe attached)
Thursday: At my sisters!
Friday: Big Family Lunch - Dinner will be what is left over.
Saturday: Camping - BBQ
Sunday: Camping - BBQ
I received some fantastic feedback last week on how other people collated their shopping lists and plan their supermarket shopping. I have since then, started creating two basics list, one for the fortnightly shop and the other list for what I need to buy on a monthly basis. I will post these next week Monday when they are finished.
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I have attached our very small shopping list for this week. I have also copied the explanation from last week about what is the attached excel file below.
The file contains three separate spreadsheets. The first is named “Complete Shopping List’ and it lists by supermarket aisle all the ingredients that are needed to cook the family meals for this week.
The second spreadsheet is named “Ingredients By Meal’ and it lists the ingredients that are required for the family meals this week.
The third spreadsheet is named “Menu Plan” and is a modified version of the menu plan that I print and place on the fridge. I have a notes section, that I like to populate with any activities that are likely to impact the evening meal routine.
Happy Easter to those who celebrate this holiday.
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Great Menu!
Have a great trip.
I am addicted to spreadsheets and love my spreadsheet grocery list. It makes my menu planning and shopping so much easier.
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By Connie on 03.17.08 12:53 pm | Permalink
I love how you use spread sheets… it makes it so organized!
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By The Happy Housewife on 03.17.08 12:54 pm | Permalink
Sounds great, thank you for sharing….love the spreadsheet idea
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By Sandra on 03.17.08 1:13 pm | Permalink
i love how you plan and attach to the site
have a great week.. i’ll be back to visit more..
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By Michelle on 03.17.08 1:17 pm | Permalink
Very organized! Spreadsheets! Thank you for sharing!
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By Bobbie on 03.18.08 9:08 am | Permalink
Your menu sounds terrific. I’m going to try the Vietnamese beef and noodles, it sounds delicious. Your planning system is great. I have something similar, but it is not done in Excel. Excel scares me!
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By Kate on 03.18.08 11:19 am | Permalink
I am loving your spreadsheets! Thanks for sharing!
By Angela on 03.18.08 3:39 pm | Permalink
I love your ideal and would love to use it.
Is there anyway that I could get a list of what you use for the aisle & aislesub categories for the complete shopping list so that I can type them in?
Also is there anyway just to copy & paste the ingredients by meal into the shopping list. It seems redundant to retype them. I am so sorry if any of this isn’t making any sense. I’m very new to excel and don’t know my way around that well yet.
By Diana on 03.18.08 4:58 pm | Permalink
I love Excel!! Thank you so much for the spreadsheets. Oh, can I say it again, I love the excel spreadsheets. You are now my favorite person of the week!! Visit my blogs at
whenlifegivesyoulemons2.blogspot.com & kcscafe.blogspot.com
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