Goal: bring my lunch every day, no more breakfast out, cut the dinners out by 1/2 for savings of $360. DH says that lunch out is the only way he makes it through the work-day. I'm the one who loves to go out for breakfast, so that plus taking my lunch is a good start.
Have you talked with your hubby to find out what it is about eating lunch out that helps him make it through the work day? Is it the social interactions? The Variety? The excuse to get out of the office? All of these things can be solved without having to "go out" for lunch if you are creative. It might be worth asking about and seeing if you can come up with another option to try out.
As far as breakfasts go, I totally get it it is my favorite meal of the day, mostly because I have such awesome memories of big fancy weekend breakfasts with the whole family. Maybe it would be a good chance to teach your kids to cook and get them in the kitchen helping? Or maybe your hubby has a specialty he can make sometimes?
The "Christmas Morning Breakfast Strudels" recipe of mine that is linked in the "Recipe Index" is an awesome way of getting a lot of fancy breakfasts that go from freezer to stove with no dishes once they are made up. My mo, sister and I got together and made 96 of em this year so we are set for a while :) With a little fresh fruit or hashbrowns they are an awesome meal!
I'm in too! Our grocery spending last year averaged 388.00 a month for two. This was while living in Northern-ish BC with very limited options and everything expensive. We have just moved so hoping it will be less - but we are out of most of our staples that we buy in bulk and also have plans on ordering a locally raised lamb and 1/4 a cow. The bright side is we have access to fresh veggies again! and will be ale to grow a bunch of our own food and take advantage of my mom's awesome garden :)
Goals:
- 350.00 month averaged spending
- Grow as much as possible and store for winter
- Forage for "free" food as much as we can - huckleberries, elderberries, fiddle heads, nettle, false solomon's seal, wild onion, crab apples, plums....
- Have a monthly "Date" with mom and sister to batch cook something for the freezer. Share the work and the cost and have fun. Projects planned so far: ravioli, pirogi, manti.