A Guide to Better Meal Planning

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A Guide to Better Meal Planning
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Planning Meals

• Improve nutrition
• Increase appeal
• Include variety
• Reduce waste
• Save money
• Enjoy family time

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Planning Tips
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Menu
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• Begin
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• Include
• Select
• Finish

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Meal Planning and Preparation Tips for Pleasing a
Family

• Texture
• Color
• Flavor
• Shapes
• Temperature

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..more tips..

• Number
• Balance
• Variety
• Setting

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even MORE Tips!
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Food Safety
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Adapted from NEP-208FG, A Guide to Better Meal
Planning

• Prepared by Sarah Ball Brandl
• University of Kentucky
• Extension Associate for Nutrition Education
  Programs
• Revised by Jackie R. Walters, MBA, RD, LD
• University of Kentucky
• Extension Associate for Nutrition Education
  Programs
• May 2006
• Educational programs of Kentucky Cooperative
  Extension serve all people regardless of race,
  color, age, sex, religion, disability, or
• national origin.