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23rd August 2020
09:00am BST

She DIY-ed a board, painted it and added screws and string, which would allow her to easily hang it to her kitchen wall. Next, Yeoman stuck a sclip beside each day, and wrote a selection of all her family's favourite meals on some wooden lollipop sticks.
Then, the crafty mum explains, each week she simply picks out seven sticks at random and clips them onto the board. The rule is that whatever the sticks says goes and she can go out and buy all the ingredients. Options include chicken orzo, crispy chilli beef, fajita, pasta bake, rogan josh, nachos, spag bol and campfire stew.
Clever? I know.
Yeoman herself runs a business printing vinyl stickers, so finding stickers for her board was not an issue – but you can also probably stencil on something similar, or head over to Pinterest, where you'll find lots of free printables you can download and print at home on your own printer.
After posting her DIY project online, plenty other parents were quick to comment on how clever the idea was, and how they had been inspired to create their own versions.
‘This has made life so much easier," one person wrote. "No thinking what to make every day pick a stick and that’s what we are having.’