Saturday, September 3, 2011

Custom Menu Board

So I am terrible at putting a family menu together for the week and then going grocery shopping. I usually don't really know what I should make that week and when I do actually shop for groceries I end up buying random stuff and then I never know whats for dinner each day and then just do some last minuet thing. So It's been a big problem for a while.
I found this and thought it was a brilliant idea I could actually do.
Since it was not something I could just buy I made one up and did a few things differently.


  • I picked out a few scrapbooking papers that went well together.
  • Got some cute snowflake stickers to match and accent with (My kitchen is blue with s snowflake theme)
  • Made a template with our favorite side and main dishes that I could coordinate-you might want to do some blank ones to write in as you try new things, also I did a leftovers one and a take out one and breakfast.
  • Picked up some ModPodge 
  • Got a pre-cut sheet of steel at Lowes (in the nuts and bolts isle) mine is 8x18. I didn't clean or smooth the edges at all
  • Got some cheap magnets, and cut decorative magnets, and 1 clip magnet, and 4 heavy duty rectangle magnets at loses (next to the metal sheet)
  • Got some metal bottle caps in the jewelry making section at Joanns
  • Found small cute envelops at Michael's
Pretty easy, just ModPodge all my backgrounds on, and also the envelopes at the bottom.
I didn't glue the plain magnets onto the bottle caps-they stick by themselves. Put a 3x5 card on the shopping list clip and them stuck the heavy duty magnets onto the back and then the fridge-and it's done.
BTW it have been working great, and the kids love to help pick out the meals we will be having for the week.

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