Here we are another week. Have you planned your menu yet? This will save your sanity and some money in your bank account. If you just take a few minutes at the beginning of every week to plan your meals and what you need to buy at the store you will be saving your family …
Every Sunday I take about 10-15 minutes to get a dinner menu written down for the week. I try to buy meats every other week.
It’s been a wild ride with grocery prices lately. I’ve been wondering how realistic it is to keep to my $65- $100 a week budget. I’ve had to let go of what is realistic and adjust my food budget accordingly. If you are struggling with rising food prices, know that there are STILL deals to …
Whether you have been meal planning for years or started last week, it can be exhausting. One of the first ways many of us will quit is when we have a busy week coming up. When the kids have soccer, baseball, etc., and you have extra work to catch up on, cooking at home goes …
Wondering how we keep a low grocery budget? Thanks to pantry cooking we can use what we have and fill in each week. This week I went to our local grocery store Tops and BJ’s Wholesale club. I find amazing deals at both of these stores. If you need a BJ’s membership for only $25 …
Hey everyone! It’s time to bring back some meal planning tips. Meal planning is one of my favorite ways to save my family tons of cash. If you are new around here feel free to take a minute and peek at my Frugal Meal Planning Pinterest board, or at least follow it. I did a …
I’m back sharing my third consecutive week of grocery shopping and meal planning. I’ve done random meal menus and grocery trips in the past. Yet, it’s been years since I’ve done them consecutively. This week I went slightly over my $60 goal. I knew this would probably happen because I got a few snack items …
How often have you left the grocery store saying, “The price of food continues to rise?” Or what I used to say all the time, “How did it come to that much? I hardly got any food.” Today I want to share how you can make a grocery list full of food to eat for …
Is the thought of providing dinner again for your family making you cringe? Maybe you don’t mind making meals for the family once or twice a week, BUT you just can’t handle the bill every time you go out to eat or pick up some quick meals. The cost is going to kill your finances …
It’s Friday. Friday already. The time change, this cold, moving, selling our house, the blogs are …kicking my butt. To be completely honest I am exhausted. When you are exhausted couponing is harder. But living within your means should always be second nature. I have my cheap genes to thank for that. Yet if you …