We should all have our menus, Dinner Menu A, Dinner Menu B, Breakfast and Lunch. Now, depending on how many meals you have will depend on how much you're going to need.
For now, start with a clean sheet of paper and take each Meal and list all the major ingredients in that meal. For instance, my spaghetti dinner with veggies would be:
Spaghetti with Veggies
1 jar Spaghetti sauce
1 lb. Spaghetti noodles (LTS)
2 cans green beans
The LTS stands for "Long Term Storage". This is an item that I purchase from the cannery. If I didn't, I'd need to write "1 box noodles" so I could grab them at the grocery store.
Here's another example:
4 cups Oatmeal Crunch Cereal
Milk (LTS)
I poured my cereal the other day to see how much I normally eat, and how much the hubby does, as I don't eat it every day. I eat 1 cup of my flakes and he eats 1 1/2 cups of Cheerios. So 4 cups is a rough estimate of how much our family of 4 would eat (1 cup for me, 1 1/2 cups for the hubby, 3/4 for each kid). When I store it, I'll plan on eating cereal twice in a week so it will probably total out to a box, but I still need to see how many cups are in a box.
This is going to take a little bit longer to do today, but it's going to give you a really good idea exactly how much food you'll need. Let's just say that when I was "ball parking" my figures, I was WAY UNDER!
Make sure not to throw out any of the papers you're writing on. We'll need them later so keep them altogether.
Ok, good luck. Shoot a comment if you have any problems. Otherwise I'll meet you back here tomorrow to compile the finished shopping list and to tell you a great way to store it all!
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