Organize Your Grocery Shopping

Lazy Meal Planner– Make a list of all your favorite recipes and their ingredients and keep it in your planner. Now you can make a meal plan and shopping list in your free time at work, in the car or even while you’re at the store. You’ll never again forget an essential ingredient for dinner.

This is something I read about 6 years ago when I first started getting organized but I never thought I needed to do it. After 6 years of forgetting things when I’m at the store I decided I did need it. It was really a very simple project because I already have all my recipes on the computer so I just printed out the Title and Ingredients list for all of them. I used a very small font so they fit on 2 pieces of paper. I keep this list in my car and I take it into the grocery store with me whenever I shop. Oh how I wish I had done this sooner!

I have tried and tried and failed at sticking with some kind of a meal plan. What I have discovered is that I just want to make my meal plan while I’m shopping. What looks good and what’s on sale, these are the things that help me decide what to make. Is there anything wrong with that? No. Does it mean I’m not organized? No. It just means I do what I like and what works for me.

There I go. Lying again. Maybe it means I’m a LITTLE bit unorganized and I like it that way. In my next life I will make meal plans and stick to them.