Friday, August 3, 2012

5 Things I Did That Were Frugal This Week

1. Cleaned my refrigerator and deep freezer. Inventoried what food I had on hand.

2. Made a meal plan for the whole month of August.

3. Went grocery shopping with a list and shopped more then one store

4. Used my rain barrel to water all my potted plants

5. Shopped Goodwill and a few yard sales for clothes for Kid #5  who has grown two sizes over the summer.

2 comments:

  1. Well done!! Question... when you make an entire months meal plan, do you shop for the entire month at once? Or base it on what is already in the house? I have a hard enough time planning for a week.. haha!!

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  2. I based the meal plan on a majority of what I had already in the house. I had 12 dinners that I could make already in the house and the rest I was only missing one or to ingredients for each meal. I then went and did a big shop. I will still have to shop again probably later in the month to replenish our meal and some produce. This is the first time I have tried planning for the whole month. I will be writing some posts about it as the month progresses to see how it works for us :)

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