My husband and I spent a great deal of the day doing (a long overdue) analysis of how our spending is measuring up to our budget. We were shocked to see how many of our hard-earned dollars have been contributed to the restaurant industry over the last several months.
Therefore, we've set a BIG, HAIRY, AUDACIOUS GOAL for ourselves for August!
Our goal is to eat in for the entire month!
That's right - 31 days of brown-bagging it to the office and spending our evenings at our own dining room table rather than one we have to tip for.
Easy recipes are always appreciated!
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I'm proud of you guys. We have a similar circumstance where we were once on a strict but comfortable budget and then inherited two wonderful additions. Since then we are getting back onto the budget (thanks to Financial Peace University) and are looking forward to being responsible and solvent again. If you guys haven't checked out FPU before, you might want to look into it.
ReplyDeleteWe have the same problem . . . I have good friends who are successful at sticking to this type of "budget eating" . . . one of their best tools is a calendar with menus for each week. That way, they have a grocery list AND they never have to ask "What are we having for dinner?" I'll try to dig you up some recipes. :D Good luck!
ReplyDeleteEasy Recipe #1: Take out the peanut butter, some bread and jelly; apply peanut butter and jelly to one slice of bread each; put the jelly bread on the peanut butter bread, jelly facing peanut butter; eat.
ReplyDeleteNow that I've passed on my genius. I feel your pain, and hope you're more successful at this venture than we've been. I've been telling Keri how much of a financial drain eating out is and that we need to cut it out. Then she comes home the next day and throws away a fast-food bag, like that's not so bad.
So then I order pizza (you know how I like pizza!)