Remember a while back, when I posted about the Mega Menu Mailer experiment? Well, we’ve used all but one of the meals we froze from volume 1, and we just finished putting together the meals from volume 2. (I spent an hour of prep time this afternoon, and Denis and I just spent 3 1/2 hours assembling the meals – so it was a bit faster this time around.)
I think it’s safe to say we like this type of meal planning. It saved us a little on groceries, but not a significant amount. Where it did save us a lot of money was on dining out. There was much less temptation to order a pizza or go out to eat because we didn’t have to think so much about what was for dinner. It was also flexible enough to be able to do spur of the moment types of things like go to someone’s house for dinner or invite people over, because anything we thawed was in the fridge and could be kept there until the next night if necessary.
The 24 meals lasted us 6 weeks; this time we put together 20 meals, so we should be set until the second week of November. Maybe we’ll try volume three then!