Thanks for all the great suggestions
Where are you shopping and what are you eating now?
Great tag line, by the way.
I shop at a combination of Aldi, Kroger, and Giant Eagle.
For breakfast they usually have bagels, or homemade pancakes/waffles. I tried to get them to eat some protein with breakfast, but so far no go. Especially since they are trying to get out the door. DH and I have steel cut oats and scrambled eggs each morning (love Aldi steel cut oats)
They pack their lunches and usually pack a whole wheat sandwhich (I do buy deli turkey for convenience) or they use peanut butter, fruit, cheese stick, whatever dessert I made for the week (cookies, muffins)
After school snacks are things like cheese quesadillas, pretzels, air popped popcorm with butter and salt, fruit and veggies sticks.
Dinner is usually has meat with it (I have to admit that we only eat beans and rice once every couple of weeks. I could definitely work on that. And the meat we buy is usually organic.
Fortunately friends don't hang out at the house to eat and if they go out they pay for it on their own.
I did discover how much money I was spending on convenience salad (aka bagged salad). We were going through 2 bags with dinner 5 nights a week and at $2-3/ bag that's $20-30 a week on salad. I asked my parents for a salad spinner for Christmas and am working on taking the time to shred and clean the lettuce (it's anywhere from .99-1.19 a pound)
I'll start it on the 15th and try out some of everyone's suggestions and report back on how things are going.
And So Close....I started using that tag line with the athletes I coach and decided that it is applicable for everything in life. How else can we be Mustachians :-)