Plan a Month of Menus: Save Time and Money

Planning a Month of Menus can be a fun experiment for a busy family. You cook the food in bulk, freeze batch in containers or freezer bags, and warm up whatever it is you feel like eating the next day. A deep freezer would probably be a good thing to purchase to store freeze batched food along with other bulk items bought at Costco or Sam’s Club.

The Month of Menus.pdf is a tool to help families use groceries available from local food pantries to prepare nutritious meals.

Efforts have been made to plan for nutritional adequacy and variety, including menus with moderate amounts of fat and sodium. While daily menus could have been developed including low-fat, low-sodium foods, our experience indicates that those foods are not yet common in the local food pantry.