Wondering how to save money? Start with your shopping habits. Here are our top tips for grocery shopping on a budget and still eating super well. Looking for ways to improve your cooking sills? Check out this video:
Hi i’m chelsea and i’m lauren and we are the financial diet and today we’re going to be talking about something that takes up one of the biggest things in our monthly budgets and that is food what you choose to eat and how you choose to buy that food can make or break a budget two people who earn the same thing could find themselves with like totally different
Numbers at the end of the month because one person has like mastered shopping smart at the grocery store and cooking at home and the other person has not and that’s one of the biggest things that we advocate for here on tfd and that’s home cooking and you should check out one of our earlier videos where we did 19 essentials that every home cook should have in
Their kitchen well link that in the description but becoming a really prolific home cook is only one part of the battle the other part is really mastering the grocery store so we came up with some guidelines and strategies that we believe that tfd really help anyone become a super grocery shopper and we really think that this process is twofold the first part is
Understanding what you’re doing wrong currently and the second part is understanding how you can change moving forward so these are just some of our signs that you may have a grocery shopping problem you may not be doing all of these today but there are probably at least a few that you could improve on you constantly have things going bad in your fridge you buy
Overpriced salad dressings because of the fancy well-designed label you justify expensive gluten-free or vegan organic baked goods because you simply want to try them you buy both fancy granola and sometimes fancy ingredients for granola because both of them tempt you in their own way you eat meat with most home-cooked meals as if it weren’t expensive and or bad
For the environment you shop for the cook that you want to be instead of the cook that you are and end up with a lot of ambitious ingredients that you don’t know what to do with you’ll justify any seasonal food purchase for the fall you’re a sucker for anything that comes in bulk form with a scoop coffee olives nuts whatever you show up at the grocery store after
Work with the intention of buying ingredients for dinner but instead you pick up stuff from the prepared food section because you’re too hungry to wait you buy the supplies for and prepare batches of baked goods for like 20 people when you’re only one to two people eating them so you end up with like a comical amount of muffins to voiced on people at work or in
Your social life you become obsessed with one pinterest recipe and you go out and buy ingredients for just that one meal rather than ingredients that you could use all week long so here are some of our ways that you can help combat this plan ahead with both your shopping and your meals which means that when you go to the store you make a big list of everything
That you want for the week when you make meals you make them in big batches and you freeze half of everything when you’re buying items that are priced per item make sure that you’re getting the biggest one anecdote today i was getting my flowers because i have company coming over and they have roses that are by the dozen $9.99 and someone messed up when making my
Bouquet and they put like 30 roses in it and it was still $9.99 so do that but also with like broccoli and stuff when going to the store always make sure to map out at least two recipes you want to be making so that you’re not shopping blind focus on things that you buy once to make many meals from things like curry paste basic grains and frozen vegetables always
Have a small snack about an hour before you go to the grocery store because nothing ends in more regret than going grocery shopping hungry or drunk or drunk grocery tipsy or even tip grocery shopping after brunch is a nightmare if you’re splitting groceries with a roommate or significant other make sure that you have a system and a plan in place for how you split
It if it’s in your budget and ethics and sustainability is important to you when it comes to food consider finding things like a local butcher or farmers market where you can start getting things like meat and produce when you find more luxury items like high quality protein on sale make sure that you buy in bulk and then freeze it look into items that you’ll
Always buy especially things like toiletries cleaning products etc and just have them automatically delivered by ordering them online this will save you some of your grocery store trips and therefore more temptation find starches that can serve as the base for all of your extraneous ingredients in your fridge things like pizza crusts and risotto rice can serve as
The perfect excuse to get rid of that leftover chicken see also quiche essentially anything can go into a quiche and trust us we have tried so those are some of our warning signs and strategies for grocery store mastery but there are plenty of good tips we probably haven’t even thought of yet so if you have something you absolutely remember to do when going to
The grocery store please leave it in the comments below so as always thank you for watching and don’t forget to hit the subscribe button and go to the financial icom for more by
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TFD's Rules For Mastering The Grocery Store | The Financial Diet By The Financial Diet
