Menu Planner

Being a SAHM, I don't use this planner as often as I used to; however, I've volunteered (i call it begging, lol) to help my old work out for a little while!  Using this keeps me organized and my sanity at an average level so when I get home from the office I can snuggle with my daughter instead of worrying about what's for dinner!  Also it helps my husband, the lucky one who gets to stay home with Maddie, our daughter. Being very fortunate, we are self employed as crop farmers and my husband works only a good 4 months out of the year.  So in other words, we are very blessed we don't need to find a sitter when little things like this happens!

What you will need for the menu planner:

*Paper of your choice (of course, I used cupcakes)

*7 Clothespins

*Hot glue gun (to glue clothespins on)

*Laminated sheet for the base (optional)

*Magnet strips (for the back)

*Sharpie marker (or whatever you like)

I used a gift tag punch to make the dinner cards, and I used white cardstock paper.  On the back of each card is the items needed for that dinner.  That way, I don't have to brainstorm what I need--I can just write it down on my gerocery list! I also write everything in pencil just in case I want to change something :-).  It really makes it creative for dinners; I have about 100 dinner cards!