Let's Craft Something!

Happy August, everyone!

Alright, guys and girls, I mentioned on Wednesday that I was trying to start meal planning for myself.  I say myself because I'm a vegetarian and I would honestly never have a clue how many to cook for if I even did plan something that I could omit the meat.  That's neither here nor there, though.

I'm starting meal planning (or hopefully starting it) to help myself lose weight.  Like Zach pointed out, the less time I spend dwelling over what's for dinner, the less time I would think about food, so the less hungry I would be throughout the day.

Meal planning is also a great way to budget if you're trying to watch your spending.  It's also great for families with children so you don't have to hear that infamous "What's for dinner?"  Whatever your reason for meal planning, I'm sure it was difficult to begin with, but has made life easier.

I admit, I'm a fan of hand-writing things.  I know it's easier to type it -- at least for me -- but I remember more if I write it by hand.  When I ran across printable meal planners, I was happy.  (Because, of course I also like things to be cute.  Duh.)

Of course, if you want to be fancy, you can always make a pretty little display.  I like this one with chalkboard paint because it's reusable.  Although, why is Sunday missing?  Maybe that's a fend-for-yourself day.


Me? I had just planned on doing something simple like this planner from Grace Got Healthy for right now.  At least for while I'm just planning for myself.  I've found that I don't need a snack between breakfast and lunch, nor after dinner.  If I do grant myself a dessert, it's just a fruit, though.

You can find plenty of printable meal planners and how people use them on Pinterest.

I also found that there were a few on Microsoft.  I was looking for "planner" because I doubted they had meal planner templates.  I was wrong, though!  If you don't find one you like on Pinterest or through Google, you can always make your own by tweaking the templates in Word.

Do you guys meal plan?  What method do you use?

Remember how I said I was making a blog planner that I could use?  Well, I got it pretty much finished.  I say "pretty much" because I feel like it's something I'll always be tweaking to some extent.  Seeing as I don't have sponsors, I don't have the need right now for a sponsors and expenses page as many blogging planners featured.




This is a 12 page download including a title page, table of contents, blog ideas page, blog to-do page, blog improvement page, monthly calendars, weekly planners, post planners, and blog stats. More may be added later. This file is in a Word document so that you can easily edit its contents to match your needs and likes.

Feel free to download it and edit as you see fit.  I just wanted one that fit my style a little more and included a few things.  If you improve upon it and don't mind sharing it with me, please do.  Mine was just made in Word (again, for right now).

If you want to download it, here is the link.  Enjoy your blog planning!

 
For my first Freebie Friday, I'm happy to link Kevin and Amanda's free fonts.  This happens to be where I got all of the fonts for Let's Craft Something! and I absolutely adore them.  They're easy to read, cute without being too girly, and I don't feel like they're really kiddish.  Not to mention that they have a ton of them; I think I was still going through them after about an hour.

Their website is very easy to use and you get a full range of letters to preview.  They even include some cute little doodles in some of the fonts.  For example, the owl in my signature was included in one of their fonts.

I'm sorry my first Freebie Friday wasn't something more original than a link to free fonts, but I'm just starting out, after all.  If you have some requests for what you would like to see hosted on a Freebie Friday, leave me a comment and I'll see what I can find.

See you Monday!