Menu Planning Tips: Save Time And Cash Through Weekly Menu Planning

I'm a numbers person, so I seriously consider my family's budget. Typically, we're quite a simple family, but the one spending category that really disturbs me is how much we spend on food. And I don't indicate eating at restaurants... I'm referring to how much we spend on groceries every week. For a small family, our grocery budget is out of control.

Therefore when I learned about weekly menu planning, I was thrilled. Especially when I realized how much menu planning can help reduce our grocery budget.

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There are lots of advantages to weekly meal planning, but the greatest help to my family is how much cash we save on groceries. By planning our meals in advance (I generally plan our meals one week at a time), I know exactly what I have to buy at the shop, and I refrain from purchasing food that we won't eat that full week. Before I started planning our meals, we wasted a lot of food since it spoiled before I got around to preparing it. Meal planning also minimizes the number of times I visit the supermarket (I used to go nearly every day!), which means fewer impulse purchases. I don't know about yo