Putting Together Your Home Organization Binder Step by Step - Home Menus

One of the most important sections in your home Home Organization binder will be your kitchen/ or menu planning section.

We all need to eat right? Whether you eat out or in the kitchen section of your home organization binder will hold the details of your family eating life so that figuring out what is for dinner will be a breeze.

Quick Go To Meals: These will be ones you can put on the table in 30 minutes or less. Keep this list handy as it will become stained with how many times you use it.

Favorite Family Meals: Grill your family and find out what meals they enjoy. These will be the ones you turn to time and time again. Keep that list at the front as it will help you at meal planning time.    

Meals from Leftovers: A list of meals you can make from leftovers. Ones you can make from veggie leftovers, meat dish leftovers and more.

Weekly Menu Plan: Yahoo! Your list of what’s on the menu for the coming week. It can be Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner or just Dinner. If you suddenly have to fly to Paris you family can take over and put dinner on the table from your wonderful list.

Grocery Shopping Master List: This will be your master list that you make your weekly grocery list from. Keep it behind a sheet protector so you can cross things off as needed, and the night before you go grocery shopping transfer the items to your grocery shopping list.

Pantry List: You don’t have to have a walk in temperature controlled room to have a pantry. Anywhere you keep your items that don’t need refrigeration is considered your pantry. Keep a list of your regulars and keep it stocked for go-to meals.

Freezer List: Even if all you have is the little freezer housed above your refrigerator you can still stock it with items packaged to help you put together a delicious dinner. Keep a list of those items so you will know when you are running low.

Breakfast Dishes:It's nice to have a list of the regular breakfast dishes your family eats. Some mornings I draw a blank and this is nice to reference.

After School Snacks: Have school aged children? Keep a list of items good for their snacks. Some of them could be things you make and stock in the freezer but the mind is a funny thing and sometimes we can forget when a hungry tween is whining for eats.

Take-Out: Sometimes you don’t want to cook. List the places and numbers for restaurants your family frequents here.