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Meal Planning for Today’s Business Mom
One of the common nightmares business moms run into is the battle between business and family, especially when it comes to solving the age-old question – “Mom, what are we having for dinner?”
Too frequently the solution is a last minute run through the fast food take out line! The outcome is a bad case of “guilty mommy” because you aren’t able to provide nutritious family meals on a regular basis. There’s the purchasing, preparing,clean up and before you realize it, it’s time to begin again on the next meal.
Odds are as a “biz mom” you could be losing around $54k a year of income producing time fretting over what and how to feed your ravenous hoard without overlooking your business. The thing most working moms overlook is the fact that working from home is stressful without easy meal plans.
You will be astonished at how much more time you’ll have for your workday once you coordinate dinner ideas. You can also give up the family vs business guilt! Here’s a meal planning SMARTcut® :
- list out your best easy family menus
- use a flexible system to shift your menu planning for variety
- develop a master grocery list to shrink shopping time (maybe to as little as one hour a month!)
There are a number of benefits to menu planning. First -you will never have to have”I don’t know” for dinner again. Having your own set of healthy family meals will allow you to put simple meals on the table in 15 minutes or less. Your family will be in awe and delighted with your ability to prepare simple delicious meals.
(Don’t tell them how effortless it has become!)
Adjustable meal planning also means you can change out one meal for anOther if you have unexpected company or decide to go out for dinner as a family. Don’t kid yourself, life is always in flux for the busy mom!
You could even produce a cookbook compiling favorite family meals. This is a great technique for teaching your children simple meals recipes and getting them involved in planning and preparing them.
Putting together your reusable dinner menu system will involve a few hours up front. Wouldn’t it be worth a few hours one weekend to streamline this repetitive task and save you hours every day for your own use?
As you get quick simple meals set up and running, you’ll find you love the concept of a system that makes family meals easy to plan ahead or, rather, plan once, then keep reusing them. An amazingly great time saver!
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