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Day 10 of 31 Days to Slash your Grocery Spending: Plan a Freezer Cooking Session

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How Freezer Cooking Save you Money and Time: There is some time involved upfront with grocery shopping and prepping the meals for the freezer, but it saves considerable time when you are planning your weekly menu and the night that you are serving the freezer meal. Check out my Favorite 8 Freezer Meal Ideas.

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Our 2023 Financial Goals

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My husband and I discussed some ideas over our holiday break. I cried for days and we celebrated the occasion with a family cruise a few months later. Also that year, I wanted to create an In Case of Emergency (ICE) binder for my family. I did achieve this goal and ended up calling it our Family Vital Information Binder.

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Grocery Budget Challenge | February Meeting

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The Goal of the Grocery Budget Challenge is to be creative with our meal planning and grocery shopping so that we do not over-spend. We don’t want to make our families miserable with bland meals, boring snacks, and not enough food in the house, but we must stay on budget. March’s Assignments.

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31 Days to Slash Your Grocery Spending: Day 1

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Do you feel like your grocery spending is out of control? Do you constantly struggle at dinner time trying to figure out what to feed your family? I am hosting a 31 Days to Slash Your Grocery Spending challenge. I am hosting a 31 Days to Slash Your Grocery Spending challenge.

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How to Save Money on Groceries

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If you are struggling with the rising grocery prices or maybe you need to make room for your family’s growing appetites, take a look at the following list and see what changes you can make to cut your grocery bill…and still eat really well! It’s those impulsive, last-minute trips that seem to wreak havoc on spending.

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Eleven Tips for Easier Menu Planning | Kitchen Economics Link-Up

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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. Get the family involved.

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How to Save Money on Groceries

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Personally, if I don’t make a shopping list and plan my meals, my grocery budget is toast. It’s those impulsive, last minute trips that seem to wreck havoc on spending. of Agriculture, a US family of 4 discards around $1500 a year on food waste. I average about $5 in coupons on a typical trip to the grocery store.