Everything in Brown is made from Venison. My goal is to link the recipe to each of the meals, along with the cost. I am also going to log what we spend on groceries each month, and a record of all the coupons we use. Ultimately we are trying to keep from giving the pizza guy(whom we love dearly) all our money, and our actual eating out for special occasions. We are serious about getting out of debt and by blogging all of this I hope that it will help us stay on task as a family.
January meals
1.Salisbury steak- Instant taters Green beans homemade bread
2. Lasagna and homemade bread x2
3. Ham and beans Fried taters corn bread
4. Beef (hamburger) stroganoff
5. Sausage gravy, biscuits and peas
6. chipped beef gravy biscuits and peas
7. Roast homemade bread and mac and cheese
8. Hamburger helper and veggie
9. chicken helper
10. chicken casserole and corn casserole
11. Roasted turkey, instant sweet taters, stove-top and green bean casserole
12. Turkey soup x 2
13. pork burgers baked beans and french fries
14. pork loin cabbage baked beans pasta salad
15 mac and cheese and ham casserole
16 turkey sandwiches and pasta salad
17 chili soup x2
18 swiss steak mashed taters and green beans
19 Turkey pot pie
20 pancakes and bacon
21 French toast bacon
22 Veggie soup x2
eat supper at church 4 times
that comes to 30 meals (we vegged out new years on leftover appetizers.)
Snacks
make jello
make pudding
make cookies
make brownies
make cake
make jerky
make summer sausage
make fruit roll ups
- think about all the stuff that goes with each day. For example we drink sweet tea about a gallon a day. You have to include tea and sugar on your grocery list and knowing how much or how often you use it will make this style of meal planning and shopping much easier long term.
- make sure you also account for seasonings you might use during the month.....nothing worse than having tacos on you list and all of the ingredients to make them except the taco season. A trip to the store for a 50 cent pkg of taco season steals $$ from the Gas envelope/budget.
- my kids are in school so the only lunch menu I plan is for me and the hubby. Generally our lunches are leftovers from the night before (we don't eat most of them past that next day) or PB&J, if I get them cheap I will buy frozen veggies for myself since I am generally home.
- For Saturday and Sunday when we are all home for lunch and supper I plan for us to eat bigger meals for lunch and eat the left overs for supper. For example a pan of lasagna will feed us for Supper one night and lunch the next day and usually leave enough for hubby and I to have lunch again(we do eat lasagna more than a day old)
- Plan your breakfast out before you go grocery shopping if your kids are big cereal eaters like mine....know how much they are eating and buy enough different kinds and boxes to get them through the month. we use about 2 boxes a week....depending on the garbage disposal aka Taylor.
- Plan ahead for those nights that you are busy, forgot to thaw out your meat, or are just to darn tired to cook much. We always try to have 5 easy meals...on hand for those nights. By easy I mean hamburger/chicken helper, pot pie, frozen pizza, corn dogs, chicken nuggets. Something that you can make in 20 minutes or less that is cheaper than calling the pizza guy.
- Plan for snacks....we all have days where we get hungry for something sweet or salty you know the danger foods. One way to keep you from wanting them is when you have to make them to eat them, sometimes I don't want it bad enough to make it.
- don't forget condiments
How do you manage your spending on groceries, eating out, and the pizza guy?
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