Chronicles of a Momager: Meal Plan Week 5

This week I'm switching things up a bit.

I decided to do the e-meals again. So this week is a mix of some meals from that and a few others. I started by getting the low carb plan from Walmart. In the past they used to plan the meals around the weekly ad to help save money. However it doesn't appear to be that way anymore.

Like I have said before, I haven't made a bad meal from their menus. However I should also say that I have never actually made all the meals in a week before. I typically pick through what I think my kids might eat and what looks good to me. I know that if I won't eat it, my kids definitely aren't going to! Some of the meals this week looked good, but I wondered if there was a better plan for our family. I am always intrigued by the family friendly plan, but whenever I look at the sample menu it doesn't ever look like food my family would like. So next I looked at the quick and healthy plan and that looked really good. The beauty of e-meals is that you can swap your plans when you want. It use to be that you could only swap 1 or 2 times during your subscription, but I don't think that is the case now.

They also have the choice of family plan (feed up to 6) or 2 person plan. When the kids were little, I use to do the 2 person plan and that was more than enough food for all of us. I upped to the family plan this time. When my boys want to eat, they can eat and that's only going to get to be more and more. If I find that it is just too much food, I will switch down to the 2 person plan again.

So this week is a mix of 2 meal plans and a few others thrown in. With e-meals the grocery list is already made for you! Bonus! So all I have to do is go through and figure out what I need to buy. Each meal has a number so it's easy to cross out the items for the meals that I am not going to make. Or if I'm only making a meal or two from the list I highlight the items I need. On each list on the side is the pantry list. Items that are common to have on hand. Most of the time I have all of these items, but occasionally I don't have something, so it's always good to double check it!