- Choose your favorite grocery store (Walmart, Safeway, Aldi, etc.–if you don’t see your grocery store listed, you can pick “any grocery store”)
- In Step 2, you choose from the Build A Menu recipes to create your menu. I usually pick from the Trim Healthy Mama recipes, but sometimes I’ll choose another category for my children. You can pick from several categories as you make your menu.
- In Step 3, you print your shopping list and recipes. Build A Menu does all the work of putting together the shopping list and compiling your recipes for you. They also calculate about how much your menu will cost!
Barbara MacKenzie-Murray says
I would love to try this Build A Menu because I too hate menu planning… not too crazy about cooking either… so it needs to be simple if I am going to get on the Trim Healthy Mama plan…. I’m afraid I’ll get overwhelmed with the constant cooking of real meals. the males in my family don’t like to try things but my daughter has been pleading with me to get us to eat more healthily. I was a picky eater as a child so food has never been important to me… hence the avoidance of cooking. HELP!
Joy Kincaid says
Barbara, I found the Build a Menu plan to be very helpful, especially where THM meals are concerned. They do all the work of planning meals for you! 🙂
Jeannette Mills says
Menu planning is SUCH a struggle for me. I dont really enjoy cooking to begin with, so finding recipes and planning ingredients is always a bit stressful. I would love to try this!
Becca says
I enjoy meal planning, and the only shopping I enjoy is grocery shopping, but planning a weekly menu takes more time than I really have to give. On top of that, I search out coupons at target.com, use their Cartwheel app, and also look for coupons at coupons.com. It takes a lot of time! I would love to have something that helps me get it done more quickly. Thanks for being the guinea pig, Joy! 🙂
Anonymous says
Menu planning is a bit of a struggle because I always over think it. I'm always looking at new recipes to try and it overwhelms me.
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Anonymous says
I seriously struggle with menu building! It's probably my most dreaded and hated task as a homemaker. We follow THM and I would love to win this!
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Schaefer Clan says
It's great when I do it, but I'm terrible at following thru!
Katrina says
I like the planning aspect – it's the implementation that gets me.
AND we now have some dietary restrictions, so that is making it quite a challenge.
Mrs. H says
Oops I didn't answer the question 🙁 I am terrible at menu planning … and I mean terrible. So this looks really helpful especially with the THM compatability!
Mrs. H says
Wow this looks really helpful!
Kayley says
It's a struggle for me because my tastes usually change day by day and I may no longer want the food I prepared the night before.
Carol B. says
This sounds like a really neat system to try. I like how it will calculate the quantities for you. Sometimes, when I shop I don't quite buy enough – even though I think I've figured it right.