27 March Challenge: Project "Household Binder" {Let's Eat!}

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When I started this whole Household Binder project, I had decided that one binder may not be enough.  My brain had so many categories and ideas, that I ended up with four binders that I would eventually fill up.

And that I have been doing!  My Household Binder is now packed with goodies, and nearing completion!  Oh the joy my happy heart is feeling!

So while I continue to fill up the main Household Binder, I realized there were a couple of items that actually belonged their own separate binders.  Today, I am focusing on all things FOOD!

That's right.  Food is such an important part of our lives that I think it's definitely deserving of it's own little binder tribute!

I actually had a binder for all of my recipes that I had put together a long while ago and shared with you here.  Those got moved to the "new matching binder", tabs and all!

Then, I added a stack of my personalized shopping lists to the front tab.

This way, the lists are accessible in the same binder that I use to pick recipes and meal plan!  Then, I just tucked my coupon envelopes in the pocket on the other side {you can see I updated my coupon envelope system to use larger sized envelopes}:

 
The next page includes a laminated Meal Planning Calendar, which we can reuse from week to week as we go through our meal planning process:

The next tab is a new tab for me and something I have been wanting to add for awhile.  A freezer inventory list!  I never know what is stock piled in our freezer, and then I tend to over buy since digging in two separate freezers before my weekly shopping trip isn't really my idea of a good time! 

I laminated this pretty new friend of mine, in hopes to keep it in an up-datable/reusable format!  Now, I can just list meals and frozen items that we keep chilly in the freezer, along with the date it entered, how many we have and check it off when we run out!

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I am certain that there are some great benefits to doing this!  Now I can meal plan based off of current inventory.  And I can easily add items we have run out of, to my shopping list.  And it's super easy to use, so I fully anticipate the hubs can manage this right along with me!  {Oh, and if you are wondering, you can see how we organize our freezer here in this post.}

The next tab in my binder is for take out menus, which can either slide in the divider pocket or be punched and placed behind!

The rest is just pages and pages of recipe clippings in page protectors, which rounds out the rest of the binder!  

Again, these binders are such life changers!  Keeping everything together saves us SO much time!  I can't boast enough about how much I just adore this month's challenge!  Why did I wait so long?!

So who's with me on this one?  How do you organize all those recipes?  And manage your meal plans?  And shopping trips?  Any tips and tricks that work wonderful for you that any of us can snag up?  Is there a limit to how many binders one can/should have, because I may become a binder making addict after this!

I decided a little challenge would be fun! This month we are creating a Home Management Binder!  Wanna Join in?  Take photos and blog about your awesomeness as you go!  I am hoping to do a giant, "We did it!" celebratory post where we can all link up our binder creating success stories at the end of the month!