{"id":26874,"date":"2014-02-27T18:24:09","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T23:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/cooking\/?p=26874"},"modified":"2015-02-27T18:29:46","modified_gmt":"2015-02-27T23:29:46","slug":"this-months-dinner-meal-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/cooking\/this-months-dinner-meal-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"This Month\u2019s Dinner Meal Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/cooking\/files\/2012\/01\/color-months-dinner-plan.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-26875\" src=\"\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/cooking\/files\/2015\/02\/color-monthly-dinenr-plan.jpg\" alt=\"Free Printable: Monthly Dinner Plan from The Happy Housewife\" width=\"600\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/cooking\/files\/2015\/02\/color-monthly-dinenr-plan.jpg 800w, https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/cooking\/files\/2015\/02\/color-monthly-dinenr-plan-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/cooking\/files\/2015\/02\/color-monthly-dinenr-plan-600x464.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When I meal plan, I try to sketch out a month&#8217;s worth of dinners at a time to get an idea of the whole month at once.\u00a0 I can factor in any trips, school events, or sports that my family has scheduled for that month.\u00a0 Then each week, I detail the meal plan for that week (if it needs it) and create my weekly grocery shopping list.\u00a0 Although, if I&#8217;m warehouse shopping, then this monthly meal plan helps a lot, since I do not want to go BIG shopping more than once a month with all the kids!<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/cooking\/files\/2012\/01\/color-months-dinner-plan.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Print This Month\u2019s Dinner Meal Plan free printable here.<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n<p><a target = \"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thehappyhousewife.com\/cooking\/recipe-index\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25963\" src=\"\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/cooking\/files\/2010\/12\/recipe-index.png\" alt=\"recipe-index\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Don&#8217;t forget to take advantage of our giant <a target = \"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thehappyhousewife.com\/cooking\/recipe-index\/\" target=\"_blank\">Recipe Index<\/a> to find some new favorite family meals!<\/h3>\n<p><strong>You might also enjoy dozens of:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/cooking\/mops\/\" target=\"_blank\">Meal Planning Resources<\/a> &#8211; includes freezer meals, more free printables, kitchen organization and more!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I meal plan, I try to sketch out a month&#8217;s worth of dinners at a time to get an idea of the whole month at once.\u00a0 I can factor in any trips, school events, or sports that my family has scheduled for that month.\u00a0 Then each week, I detail the meal plan for that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26875,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2779],"tags":[2827],"class_list":{"0":"post-26874","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-menu-plan-food","8":"tag-meal-planning-free-printables","9":"entry"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v15.4 - 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