Menu planning is essential for keeping your pantry stocked and budget in check. I don’t know about you guys but with the kids out for Summer, they are eating EVERYTHING in sight which means I’m spending more on food. I’m terrible at menu planning and prefer to fly by the seat of my pants when grocery shopping or have a menu plan made for me.
This is where Kraft & Sam’s Club come into play. Both companies have partnered together to bring you a 2-Week Meal Planner. Their goal is to get you to the store once and have meals to last 2 whole weeks, saving you money on frivolous grocery spending and gas to go back and forth! As an added bonus for Sam’s Club members, you can create a personalized cookbook! If you’re not a member, you should be. You can find a location near you with your zip code. We love shopping at ours and it’s very handy for us to buy in bulk since we live out in the boonies so to speak.
Back to the meal planner. I have downloaded it and already begun to make the recipes included in it. They are very easy and have been very good! I love that I have the meals all planned out for me but most of all, I love that they are easy to make.
Our first night of cooking with the meal planner was actually quite surprising. We chose to make the Di Giorno Pizza with BLT Topping. We never buy just a cheese pizza, we always buy one with tons of toppings but this recipe called for the Rising Crust-Four Cheese. It never occurred to us to add fresh toppings like the recipe called for which was a great way to add a little coolness during the hot day, not to mention the addition of veges. My husband insisted that we start making our pizzas this way instead of buying one that’s loaded with other toppings. WHOA! I think he must have fell in love with the bacon and ranch, don’t you?
Di Giorno Pizza with BLT Topping
INGREDIENTS
- 1 Di Giorno Rising Crust Pizza-Four Cheese
- 1⁄2 cup shredded lettuce
- 1⁄4 cup chopped tomatoes
- 4 slices Oscar May er Bacon, cooked, crumbled
- 2 Tbsp. ranch dressing
DIRECTIONS
Heat oven to 400°F. Bake pizza as directed on package. Serve topped with remaining ingredients.
I’ll be sharing more of the recipes over the next couple of weeks but I hope that you’ll go and download the 2-week meal planner yourself so we can try them together!! How fun would that be. Then when I talk about one of the recipes, you can tell me if you’ve tried it and how you liked it!
OVER TO YOU
Are you a meal planner? If not, do you think having a meal plan at your fingertips would make a difference, cooking & budgeting wise? I love that it gives me new creative meal ideas for the future because I’m always running out of ideas on what to cook. I’d love to hear your thoughts!
Disclaimer “I was one of five bloggers selected by Kraft Foods to work on the Kraft Foods and Sam’s Club Two Week Dinner Planner program. I have been compensated for my time commitment to the program which includes my trip to Sam’s Club, my interactions/experience with the two week dinner planner and my posts about my experience. I have also been compensated for the food purchased for the two week dinner planner. However, my opinions are entirely my own and I have not been paid to publish positive comments.”Comments
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I mentioned this to my husband and he liked the idea too…it’s like a pizza/salad in one. I don’t buy frozen pizzas anymore since there so easy to make and quick on my own, but I’m def. going to try making a BLT one next time.
Off to check the sams/kraft planner.Thanks for the idea!!
That pizza looks delish! I never thought of doing that either! Thanks for sharing the sams/2 week meal planner with us! I checked it out, and they have some great ideas! I am not normally a planner- This looks easy!
What a great resource! Looking forward to hearing your opinions on future dinner ideas.
Oh by the way, I had to add “www.” to your link to get to the page.
I am a meal planner on a weekly basis. When the store ads come I look to see what is on sale – especially meat – and plan my menu and my shopping list.
Does Kraft/Sam’s have other 2 week meal plans?
I was doing a search for the 2 week meal planner offered by Sam’s last summer and ran across your post. I had the menu saved to my computer, but lost it due to a hard drive crash. Do you have a copy of the planner you could email to me? I clicked on the link in your article above, but it took me to a new promotion from Kraft & Sam’s. My family loved many of the meals in the planner and we used them every other week or so throughout the past 10 months.
Many thanks in advance!!!
Jennifer