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 you really have a budget?…
Meal Planning & Grocery Budget
57 (ish) 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 most of my grocery shopping…
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 hard truth. You might have…
How to Cut Your Grocery Bill
It seems like everyone and their mom wants to know how to cut your grocery bill down. 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, you will learn how to cut your grocery…
#1 Meal Prep Tip: Make Dinner in the Morning To Save Stress and Money
Ever feel guilty that you order too much last minute takeout? You’re just tired by the end of the day… it’s understandable. Or maybe you have every intention of making dinner tonight, but then the baby doesn’t nap well and needs to be held, and you can chop veggies very well while holding a 1…
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 we’ve been paying off our…
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. (Why’s that? you ask.) Well……
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 car. Too far? Update 2019:…
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 not pregnant. That 3rd one…
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 and shop for a month…
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 sitting down to think about…
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 to go crazy cheap on…
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! How I handle fresh produce:…
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 who came along and depends…
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 relatively simple if you try…
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 is actually very useful… woops.)…