Flexibility?
Posted in Cutting Back and Saving, Family, Saving At Home on 12. Aug, 2010
The general frugal advice (and it’s the truth) is that you need to cook at home to save the big bucks. However, the planning system will also work if you aren’t entirely ready to live without convenience foods and restaurant meals. Take advantage of sales on frozen or prepared items if you have a coupon and can get that item for VERY reasonable. Note restaurant specials and clip fast food coupons wherever you see them. Just incorporate the restaurant meals or convenience foods into your meal plan. The point is to save money no matter how and where you choose to eat. We eat out maybe once a month if that and always have a coupon or discount of some kind. If we are traveling, I pack a picnic lunch and eat when we arrive, or snack on something on the way home.
“The point is to save money no matter how and where you choose to eat.”<— I think the exception to this is when it leads to cheap and unhealthy food… For instance, the family in the movie Food Inc. that could eat junk for cheap at a McDonald's but could not afford fresh vegetables….but then many of them were also on expensive prescription drugs with health problems that could have been caused by a poor diet…