All freelancers, WAHMs, SAHMs and well let’s just say *people* in general can benefit from this basic, easy to use template.

Do you know how many people don’t bother to plan their dinners in advance?

I used to be one of them!

Without planning the following will always happen:

• You go grocery shopping and come back with nothing to eat
• You go grocery shopping, spend a fortune, and still don’t know what to cook
• You spend ages in front of an open fridge door wandering what to cook
• You waste even more time on the internet looking for recipes that require 1 egg, three slices of bread, chutney, suspect looking vegetables and half a slice of cheesecake.

Believe me, if you just take a couple of minutes out of your day on Sunday (I do this on Sunday for the week but honestly just do it before you have to go grocery shopping for the week) it will make all the difference in the world to your sanity!

By planning, you will:

• Save all that time formerly wasted on wandering what to cook
• It takes the brainwork out of figuring out if you have all the necessary ingredients
• Kids like to know ahead of time what they’re getting, and it generally changes their attitude to something if they can see okay, brocolli *today* but yummy sweet potato *tomorrow*.
• You save a bundle of money at the check out register, because you haven’t spent a fortune on buying bits and pieces that you may throw out later because it’s gone off before you used it.

If you’re a freelancer, or a work at home mom, you know *just* what a time saving lifesaver a simple menu plan can be, because when it’s just you against the clock, every second counts. Knowing that you can just leap into the kitchen at the right time, know that you’re whipping up spaghetti bolognese, you really can spend every last second finishing that first draft, polishing that website design and actually *focus* on the task at hand rather than worrying about what you’re making for dinner three hours from now.

Take! Download and print off to your hearts content!

Simply click to download the pdf file.

Happy Planning!