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Valentine’s Day Menu Planning Tips & Recipe Ideas

Family Balance Sheet

Heading out for Valentine’s Day dinner sounds lovely, but long lines, high prices, and the cost of a babysitter, can keep many of us in for the holiday. Sure, we’d love to eat out and have someone else prepare and serve our food, but that would involve a babysitter and a food tab. Unplug from the Outside World.

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WIS, WWA | all Safeway

The Frugal Girl

This is better than endless nights of eating out, but definitely not as frugal as an organized trip to Aldi. I spent $63 at Safeway, spread out between an embarrassing number of trips. Anyway, we ate Chick-fil-A while we watched. And I spent $20 at Chick Fil A for our final Pride and Prejudice viewing night. ?

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Gwyneth Paltrow’s $29 Food Stamp Budget – I pay $30 a week no food stamps

Coupons Do Work

watch my video below: When I was growing up, my grandmother would make two-three meals a week and the rest of the week? I do the same thing AND my kids eat healthy! This is what I do: Step 1 : make a monthly menu plan and stick it on the fridge or the wall. Note: to see my example of a monthly menu plan, click here.

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