At first, making a meal plan for your family might seem like a huge project! But it really is not hard at all. Once you get used to it, making a meal plan every week will seem easy. It will also make life easier for you!

Planning meals will help you to:

• decide what foods to buy
• include foods from all of the food groups for greater variety
• improve your eating habits
• help you to save money and keep to a budget
• look ahead so that you can use up your leftovers and decrease food waste and spoilage