Refrigerator Magnet Menu Planner
Instead of meal planning charts and index cards and computer generated worksheets, etc. Try hanging meal magnets on your refrigerator! You can see all the meals we usually have at a glance and shift them around (hang high enough your toddler doesn’t mess up your week.)
Step 1: Make a list of main dinner meals and laminated it
Your meals won’t be the same so mine but maybe able to use some of them. Download the PDF files below. 
Step 2: Make a 7- day meal plan mat and laminated it.
This one matches my kitchen. Get creative, create something to match your kitchen decor.
Step 3: Add magnetic strips on the back of the mat and on the back of the meal “tags”
Get a roll of magnetic tape at any dollar store.
Plan your menu on the fridge!
Step 4: You now have a handy Meal Planner to put on the refrigerator.
I do not plan ahead a month of meals but here is a monthly planner if anyone can use it.
Download Printables
Check out these really cool FREE printables for Menu Planning Workbox Inspired Menu Planner : Robin’s Blog – http://shar.es/aFoVO
Absolutely super idea! Love it. Thanks.
Robin,
This is an excellent idea! Thank you for sharing it with us. This visual menu will be very helpful with my pre-reader & new reader children. Where did you find the pictures of all the different meal ideas? I think I’ll need to do this for breakfast and lunch too. Can you share the dimensions of the Menu Planner form layout? I’d like to make one that matches my home decor better.
Blessings,
Mrs. H
All the pages are 8.5 x 11 for the printer. The images are easy to find on Google image search or any recipe site.
RT @heartofwisdom: Dinner Tags Menu Planner- Make easy weekly plan by viewing all dinner meals at a glance on the fridge http://ow.ly/UWIr
Wow! so impressive! RT @heartofwisdom: @CoziFamily I use visual Menu Planner Dinner Tags on the fridge #fni http://ow.ly/XWPK
CUTE idea! RT @heartofwisdom: @CoziFamily I use visual Menu Planner Dinner Tags on the fridge #fni http://ow.ly/XWPK
Beautimous!!! Check out my (not so pretty) variation.
http://ginger-snap-shots.blogspot.com/2010/01/cotton-pickin-dinner-plans.html
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I love this idea! I am going to work on this over summer break.
.-= Amy´s last blog ..review – Time 4 Learning =-.
same as me
i love this idea too!
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I think your idea is great! I use a dinner planning website called Dinner Select and I love it but your ideas are great too!
What a super visual idea! It certainly helps to get the kids planning dinner. I use 200 Weeknight Dinners – it is 40 weeks organized and ready to print. I can’t wait to turn it into a chart that the kids can help with! I’ll add the link if you are interested.
http://www.menuinabox.com/blog/2009/e-book/menu-in-a-box-200-weeknight-dinners-2/
What a clever idea!! I love it!
Sounds super. Thanks.
[...] This one is kind of neat because it has pictures on it – helpful for involving a pre-reading kid on the meal planning action [...]
thank you for sharing this great and useful post. i’ll soon write a blog and i would love to include your ideas with a link back to you. Hope it would be okey. Thanks!
These are really great!! They are like the picture cards we have for our oldest to reminder how to do things independently.
I absolutly love this idea and can not wait to try it out. My only problem is that I do only plan for a week at a time usually and I wanted to download the “Weekly Menue” and I did not see where I could do that. Please let me know if there is somewhere I can. Happy Planning!