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MAY 22, 2016

Day 22 of 31 Days to Slash your Grocery Spending: Plan this week’s meals and shopping trip. Meal planning is really the cornerstone of smart grocery spending. You will plan for breakfasts, lunches, dinners, snacks, and beverages and while you’re planning your meals, you will also be making your grocery list.

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Grocery Spending Meals Groceries Grocery 100

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MAY 5, 2016

31 Days to Slash your Grocery Spending. Some of my back up meal ideas: Breakfast for dinner. Also bookmark the 31 Days to Slash Your Grocery Spending category page so you can check in daily. The post Day 5 of 31 Days to Slash your Grocery Spending: Create back up meals appeared first on Family Balance Sheet.

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Grocery Spending Meals Groceries Grocery 100

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MAY 10, 2016

BUT, I had doubled and tripled most of the recipes and ended up with 13 freezer bags, 18 turkey burgers, 10 enchiladas, and 10 breakfast burritos. Those several hours in the kitchen rewarded me with 19 dinners, plus breakfast for 2 mornings. You don’t need to tackle all 8 recipes at once.

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OCTOBER 23, 2011

Some of my recent posts at Money Crashers: "You have five minutes before you need to head out the door to make it to work on time, and you haven’t eaten anything for breakfast. Do you skip breakfast altogether, visit a drive-thru, or stop by the vending machine in your company’s break room?

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Menu Planning Menu Plans Breakfast Real Estate 127

The Frugal Girl

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

I can only be pressed about so many things at one time, and right now, my grocery spending is not it. Thursday Breakfast for dinner: blueberry pancakes and orange juice. Which is a little high, but I don’t care. My main goal is to mostly cook at home, and other than that, I’m not stressing for now.

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Press Leftovers Dinner Fry's 205

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MAY 28, 2016

This Week’s Breakfasts, Lunches & Snacks: For breakfast, we ate cereal, eggs & bagels, waffles. Also bookmark the 31 Days to Slash Your Grocery Spending category page so you can check in daily. The post This Week’s Grocery Recap 05.28.16 Saturday: We will be dining out with friends.

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Groceries Grocery Grocery Spending Lunch 100

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OCTOBER 20, 2017

Grocery spending can get out of hand quickly, so I post our weekly menu to ensure that I am planning it weekly. Our monthly grocery budget for my family of 4 is $500. My husband and I had leftovers, one daughter had breakfast-for-dinner, and the other daughter had a can of soup. garden salad.

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Budgeting Budget Leftovers Daughter 100

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MAY 29, 2015

This series helps me stay on top of our grocery spending and currently our monthly budget is $500 for my family of 4. We ate breakfast at the hotel in Corning, and we had dinner on the patio of the Top of the Falls restaurant. This Week’s Breakfasts, Lunches & Snacks: Breakfast was eggs & toast and cereal.

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Budgeting Budget Hotel Freezers 100

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MAY 1, 2016

Do you feel like your grocery spending is out of control? I am hosting a 31 Days to Slash Your Grocery Spending challenge. I am hosting a 31 Days to Slash Your Grocery Spending challenge. Every day this month, I will post one simple challenge to help you get control of your grocery spending.

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Grocery Spending Groceries Grocery Budgeting 100

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OCTOBER 13, 2017

Grocery spending can get out of hand quickly, so I post our weekly menu to ensure that I am planning it weekly. Our monthly grocery budget for my family of 4 is $500. This week’s Breakfasts, Lunches, and Snacks: Breakfasts included cereal, eggs & toast.

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Budgeting Budget Leftovers Financial Goals 100

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MAY 24, 2016

Day 24 of 31 Days to Slash your Grocery Spending: Save on Organic. We eat eggs almost everyday for breakfast and I put the yogurt sticks in the freezer. When it comes to organic food , everyone’s line in the sand is different. We fall somewhere in between. Visit the websites of companies that you enjoy.

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Organic Organization Food Saving 113

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JANUARY 9, 2015

If you followed along last year’s Grocery Budget Challenge , you’ll know that my grocery spending ranged from $425 – $500 throughout the year. Selfishly, the reason for this weekly posting is because I tend to stick to a grocery budget when I know I’m going to write about it.

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Leftovers Budgeting Budget Lunch 100

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FEBRUARY 6, 2015

My intent is twofold: to hold me accountable with our grocery spending and to give some ideas and insight into how we eat on a budget. This Week’s Breakfasts, Lunches & Snacks: Breakfasts included eggs & toast, oatmeal, and green smoothies. Are you enjoying these “what we ate on a budget” posts?

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Budgeting Budget Homemade Kids and Family 100

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APRIL 1, 2021

2 – Reduce your grocery spending without sacrificing quality. Do you know how much you spend on groceries each month? Groceries is the easiest budget category to overspend. It’s also very easy to reduce your grocery spending just by planning your meals. 5 – Brown bag your lunch.

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Emergency Fund Money Finds Friends And Family Sale 130

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FEBRUARY 16, 2016

2 – Reduce your grocery spending without sacrificing quality. Can you answer this question, how much do you spend on groceries each month? If you do not know the answer, then there is a good chance you are over spending. The easiest way to reduce your grocery spending is to plan your meals.

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Emergency Fund Money Finds Friends And Family Sale 100

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JANUARY 28, 2022

Also, I plan for everything–breakfasts, lunches, snacks, and dinners. I’ve added the below Weekly Menu & Grocery List to my Freebie page for email subscribers. I do this often with grilled chicken, ground meats, waffles, pancakes, soups, and breakfast burritos. Here are my favorite 8 Freezer Meals.

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Saving Money Groceries Grocery Money 130

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JANUARY 8, 2014

Over the holidays, I wasn’t as diligent with my meal planning and our grocery bill went over what I budget for food. Not only do I need to get control of our grocery spending again, but I also am challenging myself with a new budget for January. Plan for Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner and Snacks.

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Meals Simple Menu Planning Menu Plans 186

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MARCH 2, 2011

The weeks that I take the time to plan the menu are the weeks that I have control over our spending. The weeks were I don’t menu plan are the weeks that I’m at the grocery store multiple times or we get take out multiple times, leading to an out of control grocery spending. Plan for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

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Menu Planning Menu Plans Economical Kitchen 138

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FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Also, I plan for everything–breakfasts, lunches, snacks, and dinners. I do this often with grilled chicken, ground meats, waffles, pancakes, soups, and breakfast burritos. The good news is that coupons are very easy to find and you don’t need to spend loads of time clipping them to slash your grocery spending.

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Saving Money Groceries Grocery Money 113

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OCTOBER 6, 2017

Grocery spending can get out of hand quickly, so I post our weekly menu to ensure that I am planning it weekly. Our monthly grocery budget for my family of 4 is $500. This Week’s Dinners: Sunday: Breakfast for Dinner! This week’s breakfasts, lunches, and snacks: Breakfasts included cereal, eggs & toast.

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Budgeting Budget Financial Goals Freezers 100

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OCTOBER 31, 2013

Day 14: Reduce Your Grocery Spending without Sacrificing Quality. Day 15: Skip the AM Drive-Thru and Eat Breakfast at Home. Day 10: Sell Your Gold Jewelry for Cash. Day 11: Cancel Your Cable TV. Day 12: How to Get a FREE Gym Membership. Day 13: Update #2. Day 16: Shop Thrift or Consignment Stores.

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Finds October Bank of America Friends And Family Sale 258

Saving In Akron

OCTOBER 1, 2011

Earn $3 in bonus fuel rewards when you spend $20 in the dairy department. :: GROCERY. Spend $20 on any Smucker's brand foods. Carnation Breakfast Essentials, $3.99. $1/2 1/2 Carnation Breakfast Essentials printable. $1/1 1/1 Carnation Breakfast Essentials Product, exp. –Folgers Coffee (10.3-11

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Hamburger Helper Toll House Tuna helper Uncle Bens 140

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JULY 9, 2015

She also stopped going to the local coffee shop each day and dropping close to $6 for a coffee and breakfast sandwich. Instead she started making her own coffee and ate breakfast at home. Tracy used cash for her spending categories. When her grocery envelop was empty, it was empty until pay day.

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Debt Free Debt Budgeting Budget 100