Budget Dinner Prep Week #1
Hi friends! I've received an overwhelming amount of messages thanking me for opening up and talking about our debt-free journey! I'm so glad it resonates with many of you because it was outside my comfort zone to start talking about. I decided one day it would be a positive topic to shed light on this page because its something I could have used when we started on this journey two years ago. We started to get serious about becoming debt-free when we welcomed our twins earth side! Honestly, we just want to give them and our family a good life and a big part of that is having financial freedom. It's not about being the wealthiest humans on the planet but rather be responsible and to know where the heck our money is even going! I look back on how we use to spend money and holy cow we just guessed as we went. Once we started tracking our monthly expenses in the Every Dollar App I knew one specific area I could significantly improve in was groceries. I use to go to the store and blindly buy items, things that looked good at the moment. I never went in with a plan or ideas for dinners every single day of the week, For the past 7 months, I have been planning our dinners for the week out every Saturday and then ordering our groceries online using Kroger pickup. I decided to start ordering groceries because it helped with my impulsive picking out/spending. You can read more about that and Kroger pickup right here! I simply sit down with my notepad and pen and plan dinners for the week. Once it's written out I start picking out what I will need on Kroger pickup. I pick meals that are healthy (ish) but also budget-friendly. I go carb-heavy on some of the dinners because it's cheaper and I have more mouths to feed than just my own! However, I try to keep it balanced and throw in vegetables and complex carbs whenever I can! I will start documenting more of my recipes on here but a lot of you have been asking for me to just simply show my plans for the week right here on the blog. So that I will do! For now, I'm giving you my plan for the week but no worries I'll start adding recipe links shortly [...]
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