Scrappy Menu Planner

I'm Sunday Scrappin' two weeks in a row! I woke up feeling crafty again today so I altered a notebook for menu planning. This notebook came with two plastic dividers & a pocket but they weren't where I wanted them, so I took moved things around. I only used one of the dividers, putting a blank calendar behind it & am going to get an erasable pen so I can write out my meal plan each week, this way I can also try to avoid repeating dishes too often as I'll see what I made in the weeks before. I sectioned the notebook into seven sections; slow cooker, chicken, beef, pork, sides, desserts & misc. for breakfast dishes, salads, anything that won't fit into the main categories. In the back I used the plastic pocket page for notes, I want to keep grocery receipts as a way to track our grocery budget and can put a running shopping list in there also. Because I want to use this planner for as long as I can I don't want the shopping lists to tear out of the pages so I'll just use the pocket to hold it. My kitchen colors are green & orange so I looked through my supplies & found patterned paper that had those colors. The letters are from a stack of punch out letters, also using green & orange. I think this will be a fun way to track my menu & have my commonly used recipes handy.

Last week I didn't do a challenge but this week's challenge is to complete a gift - I'll definitely be working on gifts. I have handmade gifts that the kids will be helping to make as well as a list of scrappy gifts I'll be giving away. I'll have to be sneaky in my posting as the recipients read my blog. We'll be heading out to California in two weeks so I need to get busy on my gift making. Join in the fun & check out other scrappers by clicking the button above. Happy scrapping!