I make dinner menus and shop once a week. I post the menu on the fridge each week, and used to just toss out each menu at the end of the week. Just recently, though, I started keeping track of what we actually ended up eating each week, as even with a weekly menu, things tend to change. I write it on a monthly calendar, and keep the calendars in my menu planning binder. I have found this helps us eat out less (not that you would know it from the sample calendar), because I am planning dinners better, and it also is a very useful tool when one of my kids (or my hubby) says, "not that again!" I can whip out my back calendars and say "for your information, we haven't had that in five weeks!"
