It's time to begin the Eating From the Pantry and Freezer Challenge. I'm excited to get going and I hope you are, too! I promised to share my own plan and goals with you, so here's what I'm planning to do: My financial goal is to save $300 (our regular monthly budget is $450). I plan to do this by saving $150 out of my May budget, and $150 out of June. It's important to decide how much you will allow yourself to spend. Don't [...]
May 9, 2012
Let’s Save Some Money: The Eat from the Pantry and Freezer Challenge!
Would you like to join me in saving literally hundreds of dollars on your grocery bill over the next month? It's time to eat from our freezers and pantries! The impetus for this challenge was the fact that each summer I save up extra cash for purchasing fresh, seasonal fruit and vegetables for preserving. And maybe also the fact that my pantry and freezer are both in need of a good cleaning. An actual scrub down, yes, but also cleaning out foods that we have [...]
January 23, 2012
What I Would Feed my Family on a Monthly Budget of $250
*After you read this post, be sure to read the second post in this series, with thoughts on how I would improve upon this budget.* I had way too much fun writing this post. I hinted on Facebook last week that I was working on a post detailing what I would buy if I could only spend $250 a month for our family of 5 (we currently spend $450, although that does include some household goods/toiletries, which my $250 budget doesn't). My goal? To [...]
January 12, 2012
My New eBook- Plan It, Don’t Panic: Everything You Need to Successfully Create and Use a Meal Plan
Announcing my newest eBook... Plan It, Don't Panic: How to Successfully Create and Use a Meal Plan! What if you could learn to meal plan in a way that helped you to eat better, while saving you money, time and stress? After the huge success of the Plan It, Don't Panic Meal Planning Challenge that I ran on my blog this past fall, I realized that there was a definite desire for women to learn how to meal plan more effectively and to start doing [...]
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December 27, 2011
11 Ways to Save on Your Grocery Bill
As 2011 comes to an end, we’re sharing helpful lists to help you save money, stay healthy, get organized, creatively repurpose, frugally gift-give, intentionally celebrate and more in our “11 Things for 2011” series throughout these holiday months. By Contributing Writer Brandy Ferguson As a busy wife and mother of almost eight boys, it's been necessary through the years, to find more and more ways to save on our growing family's grocery bill. The list could be endless, of course, including practical tips like [...]
November 7, 2011
Plan It- Don’t Panic: Last Week of the Meal Planning Challenge
We're on week 6 of the meal planning challenge (well, 7 for some of us). So many of you have participated so faithfully and consistently, and I have loved doing this alongside of you! It has challenged and spurred me on to get back on track with my planning. This may be the last week of the challenge, but I truly hope and pray that it has become a habitual effort. That's the whole point. As we keep doing this, week after week, and reap [...]
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October 31, 2011
Plan It- Don’t Panic Meal Planning Challenge (and Simplifying Menu Planning for Busy Times)
Snow is lovely. Except when it delays my flight home from Pennsylvania by 24 hours, keeping me from my family. These things just happen, though, and so here I sit in the Harrisburg Sheraton hotel, attempting to come up with a suitable meal plan filled with simple meals for a week of transitioning back to regular life and coming home to an empty fridge! Unexpected circumstances and hectic times don't have to mean that we can't still meal plan effectively. By definition, the whole purpose [...]
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October 24, 2011
Plan It- Don’t Panic Meal Planning Challenge Week 5 (And 7 Ways to Use Those Leftovers)
Can you believe we've been consistently meal planning together for over an entire month now? I don't know about you, but after a summer of inconsistency, in both my planning and in the meals I was serving, it feels good. Really good. We're eating better, saving money, and there are certainly less panicked dinner hours because I have a plan and I use it. It also enables me to take advantage more often of one of my favorite meal-making techniques... leftovers! Leftovers are a busy [...]
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