Meal planning is by far the easiest and most effective way to save money and reduce food waste. Tiny Adventures Journey’s method for meal planning is to plan ahead and make lists so as to better focus on simple living.
Meal planning is made efficient in our home by planning one month at a time, knowing that there will be changes along the way. From there, we take it one week at a time and make our lists.
We make three lists before we do any shopping.
We use a variety of printable sheets for our planning, including the ones listed below. To download your free copies, subscribe to the blog by clicking here.
You can also create a Simple Budget in combination with this plan to save more money and track your spendings.
It has been a crazy week here in Moncton! So many things have been going on, namely the heatwave that hit us hard. We had little to no motivation to cook food. But on the bright side we ended up having family visiting us all week so we got to spend lots of time with… Read More Weekly Meal Plan: July 8th-14th
Planning your meals isn’t always easy, especially in the summer time. But honestly that’s when you need to work at it the most. If you want to save money and eat well, meal planning is perfect for you. And I can show you how to do it! Some people like to plan ahead for a… Read More Weekly Meals: July 1st – 6th
Is it Saturday again already? Where does the time go! It feels like just yesterday I was typing up this week’s meal plan. But I suppose that’s just how it goes now that summer has begun. We had a bit of a hectic week again. We tried to transplant our tomatoes, we attend Ribfest as… Read More Weekly Meal Plan – June 24th-30th
Happy Saturday to all our readers out there! And thank you for checking out our weekly meal plan once again this week. We’ve got a few good recipes coming up this week as well as a restaurant outing. As usual, we did not end up making every meal last week. This was mostly due to… Read More Weekly Meal Plan: June 17th – 23rd
Time is flying by and we are not doing so good on the meal planning front. We ended up going to the restaurant 4 times last week. Well, one evening was take out, but it comes to the same thing. All of that to say that we are pushing even more recipe onto next week’s… Read More Weekly Meal Plan: June 10th-17th
It’s been a hectic week, and we’ll tell you all about it very soon – a video is being edited as we speak. In the meantime let’s talk about our weekly meal plan! We didn’t fully respect last week’s meal plan so we will reuse a recipe or two on this next week’s plan. We… Read More Weekly Meal Plan: June 3rd-9th
I’m sure you are all aware that Max and I are in super saving mode. This means that we aren’t planning any trips this summer. And we even got some part time jobs to try and save even more money. But we are managing to squeeze in two quick trips in the two coming weeks.… Read More Weekly Meal Plan: May 27th-June 2nd
Last week was absolutely amazing! We had not one, but two moms visit us in Moncton! Our meal plan didn’t exactly go accordingly but that’s OK. We will be using all our leftover ingredients for this week’s meal plan. For those who may be new to our weekly meal plan posts, I’ll quickly explain how… Read More Weekly Meal Plan: May 20th-26th
Tomorrow is Mother’s Day and although my mom isn’t in town yet, she will be visiting us for three days next week. This means that our meal plan will be a bit more up in the air than usual. But not to worry, we’re still going to plan it out and enjoy spending time with… Read More Weekly Meal Plan: May 13th-19th
Is it Saturday again already?? That means it’s time for another weekly meal plan. This week, we’ve got another new recipe that we’ll be trying out from Recipe Shorts, as well as a few family favourites. Oh! And we’re also planning a date night on Monday because we haven’t been out in forever! MEALS Stuffed… Read More Weekly Meal Plan: May 6th-12th