Tuesday, October 8, 2013

I try my best to feed our family in a healthy way, but I also try my best to stick to a budget for our family. Those two priorities don't often line up...it seems like to eat healthy, you also have to spend a lot of money! I do the best I can and prioritize what we can afford to eat and what we just can't make happen. We don't eat much processed food (rarely do we have hamburger helper, kraft mac and cheese, etc) and majority of our dinners are made with chicken. We do all organic milk and I buy some organic fruits. We do use Advocare vitamins and supplements and we are at the highest discount membership level to help us save money and still afford the top nutritional products. Since we do eat SO much chicken, we buy the cheap cheap stuff. We get these bag of pre-frozen breasts from Walmart for like $8-$10 a bag for 3-4lbs of meat. I defrost them as we need them and just try not to think about how much junk is probably in them to allow them to be so affordable. A...

Spending Smart: Groceries Once A Month!

Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Labels: grocery shopping / spending smart

I know some of yall have been waiting on this post for awhile! Years ago I read somewhere that it's best for your budget to only grocery shop once a month. I guess you're less likely to do impulse buying? For whatever the reason, I decided to try to grocery shop for our family one time a month. For years I've been doing this but just recently I got serious about it. In the past I would do one BIG trip a month but then Zach or I would still run out to get more of the fresh stuff like milk, fruit, etc. Now that we are very focused on spending smart , I've gotten a solid routine down and truly do only do one grocery shopping trip each month! Being able to do one big grocery trip takes a bit of planning. I like to do my shopping around the first of each month. Since I am such a planner I typically already know of special things we will need...food to take to events, meals we plan to cook for others, times we will be traveling, etc. This allows me to do meal plann...

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