In my last few blogs on this topic, we talked about how to analyze your grocery bill and I presented a plan to reduce the overall size of my bill. Our plan was to give our kids a certain amount of money that they had to budget and keep track of and use to buy their own breakfast cereal and snacks. Did Putting Our Kids in Charge Work? Our initial results with putting our kids in charge were rather successful. Because fruits and vegetables were free, they started eating a lot more of those for snacks rather than hitting Dunkin’ … Continue reading →

In case this is the first blog you’re reading about this I’ll just give a brief synopsis: Kids eat lots of food. Kids grow–want more food. Parents trying to control budget. Think of brilliant idea. Parents give kids money to buy their own food. Twins don’t count. Four year old only buys snacks. Dinners, fruits and vegetables are free. Does mom lose hair or are kids happily budgeting? And the question everyone is dying to know is did it save any money? We presented our idea to the kids. They were all for it. To them, it’s free money that … Continue reading →

In my last blog I shared my very large grocery bill but I didn’t tell you what my strategies were to help whittle that down to less money. That’s because I didn’t know. I am convinced that my best ideas come when it is most inconvenient to write them down. That way, I have to mull on them long enough to ensure that eventually I’ll think of it again. I did share how to analyze your grocery bill to help see where you spend the most money on a daily basis. I was (and still am) determined to whittle category … Continue reading →