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MEAL SETUP is useful for meals where you always group recipes and sides together. This makes for onestep entry on your menu. (See example on the menu below for supper on Friday.) You can include multiple recipes and items.The MEAL option could also be useful for cooking your traditional Thanksgiving Dinner. Once the MEAL is set up just add that MEAL to your menu and with one click all your Thanksgiving recipes are added to the menu and your ingredients will be added to the shopping list!

You can create MEALS for eating out or Pizza Night.

We all know how important it is to plan to eat our leftovers. If we don’t plan to eat them, they usually start growing our next science experiment in the back of the fridge. In the MEALS and on the MENU, you will see CORD – Clean Out Refrigerator Day! This tells my family to eat the leftovers!!!

GRAB-IT - This meal means that everything is up for grabs whether it is leftovers in the fridge or the last frozen pizza/bagel bites or whatever they can grab. I often use this meal to clean out the freezer as well as the fridge and to give the kids a choice in what they want to eat. Makes them feel in control. ? At breakfast, they can grab Poptarts, cereal, make toast, …

For our large family, I will often double a recipe but not double the meat especially in a casserole. I will use the MEAL option to customize a recipe to my family leaving the original recipe as is in case I want to share the recipe with someone else.