I don't remember the first time I saw Pinterest. I want to say it was about 5 years ago. I don't even remember how I came to know of it. Just that somehow, this fantastical website arose when I was going through a rough spot in my life. And it shed some light through my little rain cloud and showed me all the possibilities of a life I could lead if I were the least bit talented. I started pinning right away. Recipes, crafts, pictures of tall ships. I could make a board for everything. Like dream boards. Only, instead of one corkboard you might hang on your wall and pin your dreams to, I have 84 virtual dream boards. And every so often, I look them over and decide to actually act on one of my "pins". Recipes are the easiest. I pin yummy looking recipes and try them out on my unsuspecting family. If it's good, I keep the pin. If it doesn't work out it is easily deleted.
Crafts are fun. There are so many DIYers out there. Some are truly talented and have such vision. (Who knew there were so many uses for those little beads in the Silica Gel packets?) I, myself, would never have thought to make a chandelier out of Mason jars. I tend to stick to the easier, do it in 5 minutes type of crafts. Like my $3 lazy susan I posted back on January 1, 2015.
Lately, my little family and I were getting way too lazy about our dinners. I was not planning out my shopping trips and it was so easy to just eat out since there was no real plan for dinner. Enter Pinterest. I was looking over my Crafts board and saw something I had pinned quite a while ago. It was a dry erase calendar of sorts. I thought it was so cute when I pinned it from http://ladies-trends.com/.
This is so super easy. I hustled over to Walmart and bought the frame. It wasn't very expensive. It was less than $10. We have so many calendars around the house that I didn't really want to use it for that. I wanted a menu board. Something that would answer that age old question, "What's for dinner?" On Sunday I sit down and figure out a menu for the week and make my shopping list. Then I use my white board markers to write out a meal for each day. It hangs in the kitchen and helps to remind me to take meat out of the freezer if need be. And as much as I love the colorfulness of the Pinterest version, I stayed pretty neutral, using only leftover craft paper I had on hand, making this a very cheap menu board. We use it every week and it really has come in handy.
So, for me, this is fab. I really do enjoy using this. It has helped us to stay on track for eating better. And if we need to rearrange a couple of nights, that's easy to do too.
Do any of you use a menu board? How do you plan your meals?
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