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Day 5 of 31 Days to Slash your Grocery Spending: Create back up meals

Family Balance Sheet

31 Days to Slash your Grocery Spending. When I get in this lazy …let’s go with exhausted…mood, I have been known to call for take out, or pick up a pizza, or make an impulsive trip to the grocery store. Frozen pizza. Today is Day 5 and your assignment: Create back up meals.

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Day 14 of 31 Days to Slash your Grocery Spending: Weekly Recap

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This Week’s Dinners: Sunday: We went to our favorite local pizza/sub shop for lunch with my parents and grandmother. I’m using a portion to make nachos for dinner, along with watermelon. Also bookmark the 31 Days to Slash Your Grocery Spending category page so you can check in daily.

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WIS, WWA | all Safeway

The Frugal Girl

What I Spent So I went to pull together my grocery spending for the week and I realized that it’s all quick trips to Safeway. I never had room for a toaster oven at my other house, but I do really like having one here, especially for reheating things or making two-person servings of food.

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What We Ate this Week on our Budget 05.29.15

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This series helps me stay on top of our grocery spending and currently our monthly budget is $500 for my family of 4. We dined on pizza, carrots and dip, and Girl Scout cookies for dessert. When I have more time for dinner prep, I like to make my own BBQ sauce. Friday: We’re going out for pizza.

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How to Save Money on Groceries

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However, groceries is also an easy budget category to control, but it takes some planning, skill, and organization. Personally, if I don’t make a shopping list and plan my meals, my grocery budget is toast. When I plan a menu, my spending is generally under control. That is a lot of money, so I plan our meals.