Ask:
I read how you all eat more cheaply by meal planning and sticking to it. I am terrible at this!
Could some of you post your meal plans? Weekly or bi-weekly would be great! I feel like we eat the same things all the time and still have waste.
What kinds of things do you cut out all together to save money? PLUS, I find it really hard to eat healthy AND cheap.
TIA!
Answer:
Here is the link for the March Menu in the cooking forums.
We do not necessarily eat healthy all of the time but I do plan our meals every month. I go with a shopping list for that weeks menu items and only buy that plus the staples like fresh veggies and fruit, milk and bread. I am home all day so I also pick up simple things for breakfast and lunch. Sandwich meat, mac n cheese, waffles, eggs and cereal. I also buy limited snacks for the kids and instead of giving them juice all day like I used to they love having their own water bottle to carry around and drink from whenever they want. This has saved us a lot of money and I am hoping that March is going to save us even more than February did!
Hope this helps!
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Here is a site with lots of frugal recipes.
Just about any vegetarian meal - try going meatless a day a week
Answer:
Might sound like cheating but we use last months scholl calender for lunches a lot. Normally we use 3 of the 5 days of their menus for ideas and since they have a well balanced menu plan it makes my life a little easier
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I was having a hard time with this too, but what I did was have everyone list 4-5 of their favorite meals for breakfast lunch and dinner and spread them out over 2 wks because I shop every 2 wks. We haven't had any of the same meals. I made a 2 wk calender and listed every meal for the plan on it and posted it on the refrigerator. This step alone has helped tremendously cause each night while I am cleaning up I will look at the menu for the next day and make sure and get the stuff out for it, instead of it sitting on the desk and I just pull something from the freezer cause I wasn't all the way sure what was planned.