The menu plays an important role in each family. The menu needs to be made so that it provided with necessary vitamins and mikroelemenatm of all family members. At the same time, the menu has to be rational. It to save money of the family budget. About how to make the useful and rational menu, I will tell in article.
Instruction
1. Take the sheet of paper, a pencil, and write down all dishes which you cook well and quickly, having divided them into categories for a breakfast, for a lunch, and for a dinner. Try that dishes of the menu didn't repeat more than two times a week. If it isn't possible, add several new dishes, not familiar to you.
2. Dishes for a breakfast plan lungs (both in preparation, and in comprehensibility): omelets, porridges, sandwiches. If you and your house have dinner in a workplace, try to cook for them dishes not only useful and nourishing, but also which are convenient for taking in a grocery container: krupyany porridges, mashed potatoes with sausage, or cutlet cream soup. For dinner make rice with chicken or pilaf, pasta with vegetables
3. In the summer include vegetable and fruit salads, cold soups, fruit drinks in the menu more often. It is necessary to include meat products, hot soups and broths, herbal teas and dried fruits compotes in a diet in the winter. At least once a week do pastries independently. So you will indulge the relatives with home-made tasty pastries and you will save money of the family budget.
4. For preparation of the new dishes which aren't mastered by you yet allocate 1-2 times a week. When drawing up the menu becomes a habit, you will be able to indulge the members of household novelties more often.
5. Choose a menu form, convenient for you. For example, it is convenient to do drawing up the menu in the editor of MS of Excel. You can download an example of the useful and economical family menu at the link below. It is also possible to make the menu in the editor of MS WORD. You can give vent to the imagination and make cards cribs. On each card place a photo and the recipe of a dish. Execute sorting according to categories (breakfast, a lunch, a dinner). Lay cards in a box. The menu is ready! Hang out on the fridge necessary cards per day (for a breakfast, a lunch and a dinner)
6. Make the approximate list of products necessary for you for preparation of the planned dishes.
7. The menu for a week it is ready. Now it is necessary to count the cost of products and time for preparation of dishes. Make the analysis. If something doesn't suit you (the cost of products is too high, or you doesn't keep within time frames of preparation of dishes), execute correction of the menu.
8. Make the list of products of two parts: products which need to be bought for a week (meat products, tea, grain, candies, an elbow products, eggs, etc.) and those which you will buy daily or every other day (dairy products, bread, fruit and vegetables). Visit shops with the made list. Don't deviate from it. It will help you to save money of the family budget.