Objects in the Mirror May be Closer Than You Think – A Rant
July 9, 2009 at 7:49 am Leave a comment
Watching where you’ve been not where you are going can be hazardous to your health. The same principle applies to trying to stay within your family meal budget. In the past you went to the grocery store and bought whatever caught your eye, planning what to feed your family on the fly. Not only was this not cost effective but it caused the time consuming practice of repeated visits back to the store to pick up this and that to round out the meals during the week.
We live in a DIY, do it yourself, society. There are numerous shows on TV showing us how easy it is to make this and fix that. There are Do It Home Centers designed to provide all the materials we need to change that bathroom, paint that house or build that deck. How many of us jumped in with both feet only to find out we didn’t have the full range of abilities to complete the job. Heck, they even have a TV show that goes in after the homeowner messes up the job and fixes it.
The same problems arise when we are forced by budgets to cut expenses and now find we are eating more times at home and enjoying it less. We start off by “planning” a week’s meals in our heads, you know, hot dogs on Monday, Wednesday is tuna night, Friday fishsticks, etc. On or about the 3rd week we are bored with what we are cooking and the family is beginning to grumble. So we start to sit down and try to write out a menu for the week but we again run out of ideas. Surfing the Internet will provide some recipes but there is the time needed to surf, to create a list of recipes we think we ( the kids) will like and then manage to cobble together some sort of shopping list. Off to the store and then we find ourselves back in the same old grind again.
Why not make your life a little easier and your family a little happier and turn to a meal planning source. For very little money, money you will see in savings each trip to the grocery, you will be provided recipe ideas, meal plans and shopping lists to make it all work. Choose a service that works for you. We shamelessly suggest ours (www.emealsforyou.com) but you really should try to get a better handle on meal planning and budgeting, and sooner rather than later.
Entry filed under: Rants, Semi-Rants and Non-Rants. Tags: budgeting, DIY meal planning, food budgets, food savings, food shopping, Meal Planning.
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