{"id":5477,"date":"2017-09-23T10:24:25","date_gmt":"2017-09-23T14:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coffeefreakdesigns.com\/teenstotsandeverythinginbetween\/?p=5477"},"modified":"2017-09-23T10:24:25","modified_gmt":"2017-09-23T14:24:25","slug":"saving-on-saturday-9232017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teenstotsandeverythinginbetween.com\/?p=5477","title":{"rendered":"Saving on Saturday 9\/23\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The first way I am saving is the easiest and I have blogged about it several times. I am staying at home. Even if I decide to run out just to grab one item, I am 100 times more likely to spend money than if I simply stay at home.\u00a0 I should also add that I am avoiding online shopping as well. Unless I find a deal that is below stock up price I simply do not shop.<\/p>\n

I am saving time and money both my cooking ahead. This morning, since we are at home. I made a batch of Breakfast Burrito bowls<\/a>. Totally cost for at least 3 mornings of breakfast for all of us $4. I was able to use green pepper from the garden which helped reduce the cost. The kids love\u00a0Banana Chip Bites<\/em>. These are basically milk and bananas blend and frozen in muffin tins. They also add chocolate chips to make them special. My using bananas that were previously frozen, this makes a really cheap breakfast or desert. Some of our other favorite for cooking ahead right now are meatloaf muffins and chicken enchiladas.<\/p>\n

The final way I am saving money this Saturday is by shopping my pantry and freezers. I am trying to dramatically reduce our grocery budget over the last several month of this year. In order to accomplish this I am trying to make sure I use what is in our freezers and pantry. I headed out to the building this morning to bring up stew beef, cubed steak, roast, ground beef, chicken and chicken fried rice.\u00a0 We have a menu plan but I usually don’t plan ahead for weekends or Thursdays. This gives us a chance to eat up leftovers or be a little bit more creative, the only problem is that I forget what we actually have in\u00a0 the freezers. This morning I brought up several items that are not on the plan but that I can use to create a meal. I also made sure to restock our snack drawers and found three additional boxes of pasta that can be used over the next several months. I know myself well enough to realize that if my freezer’s are full than I won’t “think” I need to go shopping even if that is really not the case. At least for the next week or so, I know we have plenty of food so I will continue to try and use what we have to make meals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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