She Provides Food for Her Household

(Kitchen)

This section is accompanied by a picture of a vintage stove (from Antique Clipart), and the following verse:

“She is like the merchant ships, she brings her food from afar. She also rises while it is yet night, and provides food for her household and a portion for her maidservants.” – Prov. 31:14-15

The first page in this section is a weekly menu. It has a week of breakfasts and a week of lunches. I do not usually use them, but they are there as a backup if I completely draw a blank. 🙂 At the bottom of the page, it has a list of which categories of meals we eat each night of the week. (Again, I do not stick to this strictly. I usually use it when planning menus, to ensure that we aren’t eating all one thing, but I don’t stick strictly to my menus once they’re made.)

The next page is my main dish menu planner. It has six columns: soup, poultry, beef, fish/egg, beans, and other. In these columns I have listed all the meals I make. It is easy to select meals from this list for my menu planning.

The next page is one month’s menus. I eventually hope to have several of these and rotate them. This is followed by the grocery list which goes with it. The grocery list tells me what I need to make those specific meals. I’ve also made a note of how many meals require separate veggies, as well as which breads I need to make.

Following this is a page I call “Product Usage Information.” (It comes from Homemaker’s Helper, which is a list of printable planner pages I created on CD-ROM.) This allows me to keep track of how much an item cost, when I opened it and when I finished it off.

Next is a page protector with a piece of cardstock in it. I drop coupons into one side and rebate “pieces” into the other. (We don’t use very many coupons, so this one page is sufficient.)

My master grocery list is next, followed by a master copy of the “Product Usage Information” page.