Menu Plan in Action

I finally have this up and running and thought I'd share!!  It turned out pretty good, although I don't think I'd print double ideas again.  It just makes too many magnets to find storage space for.  There are a couple that I would do twice, the ones that I know we eat often -- Hannah's cheesy rice being one!!  That child would eat cheesy rice everyday if I would let her :-)

After I came up with the list, I put it on a Word table and then printed it out on magnets sheets.  I have never done that before and when I went to get the magnet sheets, I got the thinner ones that say you can print pictures on them -- I think next time, I'll get the normal thicker sheets.  Anyway, learned a little bit, mainly, leave the paper on the bottom as you run it through the printer and help it along a little bit so it uses the whole sheet.  The first sheet I did I could only use part of it because it printed weird.  Oh well, lessons learned.

Once they were printed, I used highlighters and colored the categories I had decided on.  Then cut them out.  It took a little bit of time, but I was in a church board meeting, so had time to spare!!

Found some pretty paper tape at Target, it even matched my kitchen!!  Had to experiment a couple of times to get the dimensions right, but that wasn't too hard, just ended up cutting one of the tapes in half. 

All in all, this turned out to be a super easy and mostly inexpensive project.  I think it cost less then $15, and I have lots of tape left over and a bunch of highlighters!!

So here's the finished result!!