Recently I decided I needed to get serious about giving ourselves a grocery budget. I was trying to look up online what a good budget would be for a 2 Adult family. While searching I came upon Money Saving Mom - 31 Days to a better Grocery Budget. Not only did I find excellent advice on lowering our budget, but a lot of other types of advice such as Couponing, and so much more! I spent days reading through her blog.
In her blog she mentioned shopping with cash instead of taking a credit or debit card. So this last week I did just that. I decided on a hundred dollar budget for a week to start out with. I'll adjust it later once I know how much of a budget we actually need. She also said to start Menu Planning, so I gave that a try last week too.
To sum up last week, I took a hundred in cash, plus my list for all the dinners I planned for this week and the result was great! We only got 1 thing that wasn't on our list and that was because hubby found something he was wanting. In the end we spent $49.00! So I now have fifty left over for anything else I might need during the week. I can also use what's left to stock up on some other stuff using coupons, or put it back into savings.
Overall I am very happy with this new way of shopping and I hope to keep up with it! I highly recommend checking out her blog if you are in need of excellent tips and information!
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