Explain the various factors or criteria for menu planning?

Answer 1

First you need to know what you and your like to eat daily. To do this, you need to make note of what you cook each day eat for at least 2 weeks up to a month, and also note what you use for cooking those meals. Next, you organize your pantry and stock those items you know you will need for the month. Then, you organize the recipes you like to eat, and make sure you have what you need to cook them for a month. Example, take three cans of something from your pantry and ask yourself what you and your family like to eat that uses those ingredients, then organize all your recipes, according to what you have. What you don't have purchase those items and stock them in your pantry. Next, take a common calendar and and write down in sticky notes, the names of the recipes you will be cooking for the next month, or two or three months. Stick each sticky note in each day of the month. When you cook that recipe, take that sticky note and paste it a the end of the last sticky note on the calendar. This will assure that you will not eat the same meal for three months, and that you will know three months ahead what is for dinner every day in your home. Lastly, as you use those ingredients to cook daily recipes, add those items to your shopping list, which you will type in your computer and save. Next time you go shopping, you print that list and shop for those items. Or print a bunch of copies of the list, and take one with you when you go shopping, so you can replenish your food storage in your pantry and always have what you need for cooking delicious healthy healthy meals for your family. You can learn this process much better, then what I am explaining by watching Anitra Kerr's videos at Simply Living Smart. Good luck to you.