According to the article, you save three hours, fifty dollars, unlimited stress and net seven healthy dinners instead of 1-2.
It is true that having a plan and hitting your two grocery stores a week diligently, can save running to the store for everything that you might be out of or forgot. The least amount of things that you HAVE to have for meals, the less stress you are going to have. Trying to remember and do meal plans on the fly is stressful.
- Check the ads or favado for a loss leader protein. Take a quick look at your meat stash and see what will fill on your inexpensive protein.
- Using the protein sources you have on hand, jot down seven dinner plans. Use a matrix or a theme based matrix to make things, easy.
- Check the vegetable bin and note what needs to be used up. Make stock! Blanch and freeze! Incorporate into your meals.
- Add perishables you will need to finish the meals to your list.
- Check for good prices on stock items and then check your quantities. Add to your list of necessary.
You are done.
I have a form...fill in the blanks . Note which store has which items on a good sale.
A little planning saves a lot of time and money.
This week, I would have purchased two chickens from Safeways and eggs from Fred Meyers.
Strawberries are 1.28 at Winco.
Note six English muffins are two dollars . Twelve are 1.67 at Fred Meyers. That is less than 1/ 2 price.
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