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Budget Food Meal Planning Monday

Top 5 Favorite Cookbooks

If you read my post last week about us doing a No-Spend Month, you saw one of our biggest goals was to decrease our takeout/delivery spending. My first trimester, I was significantly more tired than I was used to, and while I still get tired more easily, it’s not to the degree that it was …

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Lunch Prep For This Week

As I’ve mentioned before, I like lunches that I can prep an entire weeks worth of on Sunday’s because doing it throughout the week becomes annoying and sometimes forgotten.  I also don’t like the thought of buying lunch everyday because that gets ridiculously expensive really quickly. It’s also why, most of the time, if you …

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Menu Plan Monday….Tuesday #9

So, I haven’t done one of these in a LONG while. Partially because Summer makes my schedule completely different than it is during the school year, so meals don’t have to be planned out so intricately. Partially also because I really didn’t eat normally for like….a month and a half.  Once I had that root canal and …

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Meal Plan Monday #6

I managed to go to the grocery store!  YAY!  We have food again in our house! When I say we were out of everything, I mean we were literally out of EVERYTHING.  We didn’t even have any milk or eggs in the house.  It was bad.  It was almost like we were back in college, …

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Meal Plan Monday #5

So, this is one of those weeks where I’m sort of completely off on everything.  Between Mother’s Day, Captain America (which we’ll talk about later), going into the second week of three weeks of testing at school, the weather, etc…etc…etc…. My life is just kind of….off.  So, meal planning did not really happen for this …

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Meal Plan Monday #4

I don’t know what it’s like in all parts of the world, but here in the Baltimore area, its been pretty dreary for about a week now.  And it’s supposed to continue the trend for most of this week.  We were having this really nice, warm/hot, spring-like weather and suddenly April Showers decided to go …

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Meal Plan Monday #3

Adding in a deliberate take out night to my meal plan last week made me feel a bit better about ordering in from our favorite Italian place Tuesday night.  Not that I felt horrible eating delicious baked pasta goodness, but it kept me to the plan I made.  And it gave me another night of leftovers because …

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