My family and I are like most Americans these days, low on money high on needs. Since I've joined Pinterest I've seen several posts on how women have kept their grocery budget very low $150 to $200 for a family of four. Well if they can do it so can I, or I can try to. One thing I noticed was similar with these women is that they planned out their menu and stocked up on other items. So when I found this menu board I knew how I was going to keep up with the menu.
Here's What You'll Need:
Picture frame - no glass required
scrapbook paper or wallpaper or wrapping paper or fabric
crayon box or similar sized box
Mod Podge (you can make your own its one part water to one part white glue)
7 clothes pins
Here's what you do
Take the back portion of the frame & cover it in the paper of your choosing and put the frame back together. Spread mod podge on the frame & lay down the paper. Spread a thin layer of mod podge over the top to seal it in.
Take the crayon box and cut it in half and cover it in the same or different paper of your choosing using the same method as the frame. I didn't use a crayon box I used a medicine container that was roughly the same size. Find what you have in the house its cheaper. You'll need both parts of the box. In the top box I keep the menu ideas we haven't made yet & in the bottom box are where we put the menu items we've already created, that way we don't eat the same thing over and over again.
Once the box & frame are dry use super glue to secure the box to the frame and the clothes pins to the edge of the frame. I left my clothes pins plain but you could paint them or cover the front of them in fabric or paper you can customize this any way you can imagine. You'll need to put something on top of the clothes pins to secure them while the glue is drying. I imagine you can hold them down but I don't have the time or patience for that.
Once that's complete you have a menu board ready to use.
Now for the menu portion.
I created my menu pieces on Microsoft Excel using 2 columns. The left column is for the front of the menu piece and the right the back side. I then print them out & glue them together. The front contains the name of the recipe and the cookbook it comes from with page number. No sense in know what you want to make and not being able to find the silly recipe to make it. This is where you picture me freaking out in my kitchen because I can't make things up as I go in the kitchen. No ma'am I do not have that ability. On the back of the piece of paper are the items needed to create the recipe. After I had them all made I had them laminated to protect them a little bit better because, lets face it, I'm accident prone.
I also color cordinated my pieces because we have designated night of the week to keep the variety alive.
For example one night is Mexican night (my favorite), one night is crockpot night (Monday since I'm still hating the day of work) and another night is Easy food night (ie Grilled Cheese, ect).
Here's What You'll Need:
Picture frame - no glass required
scrapbook paper or wallpaper or wrapping paper or fabric
crayon box or similar sized box
Mod Podge (you can make your own its one part water to one part white glue)
7 clothes pins
Here's what you do
Take the back portion of the frame & cover it in the paper of your choosing and put the frame back together. Spread mod podge on the frame & lay down the paper. Spread a thin layer of mod podge over the top to seal it in.
Take the crayon box and cut it in half and cover it in the same or different paper of your choosing using the same method as the frame. I didn't use a crayon box I used a medicine container that was roughly the same size. Find what you have in the house its cheaper. You'll need both parts of the box. In the top box I keep the menu ideas we haven't made yet & in the bottom box are where we put the menu items we've already created, that way we don't eat the same thing over and over again.
Once the box & frame are dry use super glue to secure the box to the frame and the clothes pins to the edge of the frame. I left my clothes pins plain but you could paint them or cover the front of them in fabric or paper you can customize this any way you can imagine. You'll need to put something on top of the clothes pins to secure them while the glue is drying. I imagine you can hold them down but I don't have the time or patience for that.
Once that's complete you have a menu board ready to use.
Now for the menu portion.
I created my menu pieces on Microsoft Excel using 2 columns. The left column is for the front of the menu piece and the right the back side. I then print them out & glue them together. The front contains the name of the recipe and the cookbook it comes from with page number. No sense in know what you want to make and not being able to find the silly recipe to make it. This is where you picture me freaking out in my kitchen because I can't make things up as I go in the kitchen. No ma'am I do not have that ability. On the back of the piece of paper are the items needed to create the recipe. After I had them all made I had them laminated to protect them a little bit better because, lets face it, I'm accident prone.
I also color cordinated my pieces because we have designated night of the week to keep the variety alive.
For example one night is Mexican night (my favorite), one night is crockpot night (Monday since I'm still hating the day of work) and another night is Easy food night (ie Grilled Cheese, ect).
Forgive the phone photo it was the only way I could get a good non-grainy photo of it before it's all cut up. :)
See color coded Purple is crockpot night; White is easy night; Orange/Yellow is Mexican night, ect.
See color coded Purple is crockpot night; White is easy night; Orange/Yellow is Mexican night, ect.
Enjoy....
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