Don't you HATE when you come home from a looooong day at work and have to slave over a stove cooking for a few hours?! Even though I don't work, I do go to school full time and by the time my husband and I are home the LAST thing either one of us wants to do is slave over a hot stove cooking! BLAH! I HATE it! I absolutely HATE cooking unless its SWEETS! ;) We usually bust out the "menu basket" and search for some sort of take out we could pick up in a hurry, no matter the cost! After you do this a few times, it REALLY does put a strain on your wallet! At one point, I added up the take out bills for a month total and it was wayyyyy over $300.00! WOW! That could have been a car payment!
After doing some research, I discovered Once A Month Cooking about a year ago! So what is Once A Month Cooking, you ask!? It is a method of cooking at which you pick ONE day out of the month and cook/prepare ALL of the meals for a month! You freeze ALL these meals that you prepare and then just pull it out on which ever day you have decided to cook it!
Even though you will spend more at the grocery store ONCE... you WILL save money! By using coupons and organizing my Once A Month Cooking shopping list, I was able to cut my grocery bill down from about $500.00 a month to around $175.00! So thats only $43.75 a WEEK I spend on groceries!
After doing some research, I discovered Once A Month Cooking about a year ago! So what is Once A Month Cooking, you ask!? It is a method of cooking at which you pick ONE day out of the month and cook/prepare ALL of the meals for a month! You freeze ALL these meals that you prepare and then just pull it out on which ever day you have decided to cook it!
Even though you will spend more at the grocery store ONCE... you WILL save money! By using coupons and organizing my Once A Month Cooking shopping list, I was able to cut my grocery bill down from about $500.00 a month to around $175.00! So thats only $43.75 a WEEK I spend on groceries!
**Note this does NOT include diapers nor fresh fruit or fresh veggies other than potatoes! I RARELY buy fresh fruit as I think frozen is just as good.. some studies even show its better! So this DOES include Frozen fruit and veggies, but NOT FRESH, like grapes, bananas and oranges!...BUT it DOES include paper and cleaning products!** During the month I do have to go buy those fresh fruits I listed because well..I've got a growing 2 year old!
