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Meal Planning & Grocery Budget

47 Essential Foods for a Cheap, Healthy Grocery List

Today, I’m going to tell you exactly what you need to make a cheap grocery list that your family will love. And yes – healthy options are included! If you’re tight on funds and trying to save money on your grocery bill, I can totally relate. I also know personally …

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Categories Budgeting, Meal Planning & Grocery Budget

The Ultimate Guide to Simple Monthly Meal Planning (Even if You Hate It!)

In this post, I’ll show you exactly how to meal plan for a whole month (even if you hate meal planning). With 4 small children running around, I don’t want to spend a lot of time meal planning. So, I set up a system where I can now plan breakfasts, …

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Categories Meal Planning & Grocery Budget, Recipes, Rhythms For Less Stress
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12 Simple Meal Prep Ideas for Cooking Dinner in the Morning

In this post, you will learn 12 simple tips for cooking dinner in the morning, 15 recipes for make-ahead dinner ideas and 10 quick & easy recipes you can pull together in less than 15 minutes. Cooking dinner in the morning has been the best meal prep tip the last …

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How Much Should I Spend on Groceries? Use These 5 Simple Questions

I hear people bemoaning the darn grocery budget all the time! It’s so hard to know how much groceries “should” be costing. In fact, one of the most frequently asked questions I get is, “how much do you spend on groceries?” or “What should your grocery bill be?” In the last couple years that …

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How to Track Your Grocery Spending | 2 Methods That Work Every Time

4 Easy Ways to Track Your Grocery Spending [SPREADSHEET]

Whether your food budget is $100 per month or $1,000 per month, if you want to stick to the food budget you’ve decided on, you have to know how to track your grocery spending. After all, if you have a budget, but don’t know how much you’re spending, then do …

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Categories Meal Planning & Grocery Budget, Organize & Simplify, Rhythms For Less Stress

70 Aldi Products, Features, Warnings & Hacks: A Complete Aldi Review

Confession: I’ve use to think Aldi was gross. I thought that you would only shop at Aldi if you had to. And if you could possibly afford to shop anywhere else, you obviously would, because ew, Aldi. I don’t know why I thought that, and seeing as how I’ve done …

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This post has principles and practical tips to help you simplify your life - ways, simplify your life as a stay at home mom, tips for minimal living.

Simplify Your Life: 9 Tips for Eliminating Errands, Notifications, Clutter and More!

I googled “simplify your life mom” as I was writing this, and got over a million results. So why one more post about simplifying life? Because, I read a few, and they weren’t simple! The top result had 72 tips to simplify your life… 72! 72 isn’t simple. Here’s the …

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Wondering how to cut your grocery bill? This process is simple and it really works. You just have to stick with it and be diligent! Here's what to do.

How to Cut Your Grocery Bill

It seems like everyone wants to know how to cut your grocery bill down these days. Whether you’re trying to stop overspending on credit cards or want to spend less on groceries so you can hit a savings goal, this grocery-bill-cutting process works. If you stick to this system, I promise …

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November monthly menu plan. Every month I post my dinner monthly menu plan with links to all the recipes. The meals are mostly kid friendly, quick, easy, & healthy. Enjoy!

Monthly Menu Plan: November 2016

Now that we (kinda sorta) have our heads above water with the whole 3 kids 3 and under thing, I’m back to planning meals monthly. I used to shop monthly too, although I haven’t done much monthly grocery shopping lately because it doesn’t really fit into our life right now. …

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8 reasons to try Walmart pickup grocery app and a $10 off discount code for you. You will save time and money with walmart grocery app. Life hack for productivity | grocery shopping hacks

Walmart Pickup Review | Spoiler Alert: It’s AWESOME!

Oh. Em. Gee. I recently tried the new-ish Walmart Grocery Online Order & Pickup Service and it’s a grocery shopping game changer, y’all. Especially if you have little kids, or are pressed for time. I love it. I almost gave the Walmart lady a hug while she was loading groceries into my …

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Ugh I'm terrible at meal planning!! This free course helped me finally figure out how to meal plan. tons of great meal planning tips for beginners.

The Simplest Monthly Printable Meal Plan Template [Free PDF]

Meal planning is by far the number one way to save money on groceries. Surely you’ve heard that before… You plan for what you eat and buy what you NEED based on the plan. In turn, you waste less food (and less money). Meal planning also makes it easier to avoid …

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Categories Meal Planning & Grocery Budget, Organize & Simplify, Rhythms For Less Stress
Here are 10 simple tips for how to save money on groceries without using coupons. I do most of these each month and we spend less than $400 per month for our family of 4.

How To Save Money on Groceries: 10 Simple Ideas & NO Coupons

I recently wrote about how I got sloppy at budgeting towards the end of my pregnancy with our 3rd baby. Especially with our grocery budget! Oddly enough, even with 3 kiddos under 3.5, I have way more energy and mental stamina to think about budgeting (and blogging) again now that I’m …

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Categories Budgeting, Meal Planning & Grocery Budget, Rhythms For Less Stress
Each month I share my whole-month menu plan with links, recipes, meal planning tips, and a free monthly meal planning calendar. This month there's a bonus download with all the recipes in one spot :)

Monthly Menu Plan: March

I’m trying something a little different with my monthly menu plan for March: freezer cooking & cooking for more leftovers. I’ve been planning & shopping for monthly meals instead of weekly for a while, and I’m still loving it. (Read more about why I love monthly meal planning and how I plan …

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February's Monthly Meal Plan: recipes with links & a free printable calendar for monthly meal planning.

February Monthly Menu Plan

I’ve been planning dinners at the beginning of the month and really love it! Even though I don’t mind grocery shopping, meal planning, or cooking, I’ve grown to really like doing it all less often. I used to do it every week, and it just felt like I was always …

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January Monthly Menu Plan – Cheap & Easy Meals

We’re going to be gone a lot of January, and we have a few extra out-of-normal-budget things we need to buy that we’ve been planning for. (Such as a bed for our almost 3 year old, who is still happily in a crib.) So, I figured it’d be a good month …

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How I meal plan and grocery shop once a month! (a complete how-to guide with a free menu planner)

How to Meal Plan & Grocery Shop Once a Month

I mentioned in a recent post that I’ve grown to love meal planning and grocery shopping for the whole month at once… and while that might seem overwhelming to some of you, today, I’d like to share a few tips for those of you interested in giving it a try! …

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Categories Budgeting, Meal Planning & Grocery Budget, Recipes, Rhythms For Less Stress
How to grocery shop once a month!

Why I Love Grocery Shopping Once a Month

Let’s talk grocery shopping. Granted, not the most exciting of topics, but something we do a lot. So, worth talking about how to make it easier… I have tried every single possible grocery planning method over the past 7 years that I’ve been in charge of feeding myself (and anyone else …

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the #1 way I've been saving money on groceries (and it's so easy)!

Save Money on Groceries with Walmart Price Match

I don’t know what it is about the darn grocery budget, but it seems like something everyone wants to spend less on. If you have little kids, meal planning and grocery shopping might sound about as fun as repeatedly poking your eyes with dull colored pencils. But, this process can become …

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Wondering how to cook brown rice? This simple, easy method will blow your mind! I never knew you could cook brown rice like pasta and it totally makes for the best brown rice ever. #cookingtips #weeknightdinners #dinnerprep #sidedish

How to Cook Brown Rice Like a Boss

Ok. This information changed my life. I am not being dramatic.  That is only slightly dramatic. I have NEVER been able to cook brown rice well. Even when we had a rice maker, I always ruined it. In a fit of rage, I threw out that pointless appliance (that I’ve since learned …

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Categories Meal Planning & Grocery Budget, Recipes

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The Internet’s Simplest Baby Sleep Book

All 4 of our kids were sleeping 8 hours through the night by 8-12 weeks and 12 hours by 12-16 weeks.

So I wrote a simple guide about our method.

This short & simple ebook style guide is meant to help you get your baby on a healthy eating & sleeping routine ASAP!!

There are tons and tons of practical tips in here for everything related to those first several months of having a newborn… Check it out here!

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