2021 Meal Plan


BLANK MEAL PLAN


2020 was a wild one, but I still cooked. I cooked even more than ever because half of my family grew into adults and we rarely, ate out so....... NO LEFTOVERS.  

So here is to all of us planners who are still trying to tame, control, and plan. If I am breathing, then I am cooking because no one else is going to feed this wild Meikle Muckle. XO

Weekly Family Schedule




I tend to be the family brain. The keeper of schedules, facts, appointments, medicince doses, shoe sizes, everyones likes, dislikes, and preferred foods, and the contents of every drawer and cupboard in my entire home.

Does that sound familiar to you?  I feel that the amount of knowledge required to be stored in my mind is immense. Whenever I go to the doctor and I am asked to relay the entire medical history of any given family member I just laugh. Why is it always up to me to know EVERYTHING?

One solution that has been very useful for me has been the weekly family calendar. Every Friday afternoon, or anytime that would work for you, I edit and print this weekly family calendar. I add all scheduled events and meals. I then print and tape this in the window right by my front door. This helps eliminated many questions about "who, what, where, when" and it allows the whole family to be prepared for their activities.

Here is a blank editable copy for your family.

Weekly Family Schedule 


2020 Meal Plan

Cooking and planning can be hard. I find my biggest challenge when trying to cook dinner is figuring out what to cook. A few years ago, I started planning for the year and it was very helpful for me. Yes, I make changes to this plan. Yes, we are flexible. But, I have found, the key for me is having a plan. 

On Fridays, I get off work at 12:45pm. My kids get home from school at 1:20pm, so I use this time to clean out my fridge, review our family calendar, meal pan for the upcoming week, and order my groceries to be delivered the next day.

 Click on the links below if you would like a copy of my annual plan, a blank plan for yourself, and/or my very basic cookbook. Let me know if you have any questions, or if you have tips of your own.

  2020 Meal Plan

  2020 Blank Meal Plan

  Lacy Egbert Cookbook

Read the LDS Standard Works in 365

A few years ago, a friend mention you could read the entire LDS standard works in 7 pages a day. I had remembered Dave did this while we were dating and I decided to begin the practice for myself. I have love it, and have made it a daily practice ever since.

I do a hybrid of reading and listening. I love to write down questions and research/discuss them with Dave and others. I keep a copy of this in my planner and I use Sunday as a "catch up day" if I missed a day(s) the previous week. Trust me, it will be the BEST 15-20 minutes of your day.

Click on the link below if you want to download your own copy. Feel free to make your own schedule if you prefer it "mix it up". Or if your personal preference is to incorporate the Book of Mormon daily too.

LDS Standard Works 365 PDF

2018 Meal Planning

I love to cook, I just do not always like cooking. Weeknights, sports, lessons, church, traffic, work, kids, tired, not creative, sick of my cooking, craziness, doctors visits that last all day. We all feel the same way.

Instead of resolutions at the New Year, I make challenges for myself. One of my challenges is to read the LDS Standard Works (post below). Another Challenge is to write something positive that happened down each and every day.

I have also challenged myself to cook at home 5-6 nights a week, ALL YEAR LONG. I do not cook on Friday's unless we are having a special family night, but I do count leftover nights as home cooking night because someone has to heat it all up in the microwave. I am boring, we eat tacos nearly every Wednesday night because of sports, scouts, church, meetings. I make pot roast every first Sunday of the month unless its Super Bowl. We are basic, not fancy, not fussy. I have added my 2018 meal plan below as well as my most tried and true recipes, and a few new ones, I may end up hating. I will totally adjust this as the year goes on, but this nice little game plan will be a nice start.

Tip: I clean out my fridge every Friday and make a meal plan and grocery list when I am not hungry. I stick to the week's meal plan pretty religiously because I hate wasting food.  When I make lasagna, enchiladas, spaghetti sauce, or anything else that freezes well, I usually double or quadruple my recipe and this saves me so much time and angst.

2018 Meal Plan

Cookbook

Blank Word Calendar Template