Frugal Food Saving
June 23rd, 2008 | 
Author: Plan Your Lunches – Daily
By packing your lunches every day, a family of three can save about forty-five dollars a week or around $2,340 a year. This is based on a nutritious lunch that includes sandwich, water, fruit, carrot or celery sticks and yogurt. You will not only find yourself saving money, but feeling healthier and fuller.
Plan Your Home Cooked Meals – Weekly
Home cooked meals are great, and cooking them does not have to be an unpleasant task. One method is taking two hours on a Saturday or Sunday, cooking three main dishes and three vegetables. Then section the food into different microwavable containers to make separate meals. It’s usually enough to last three days. In the evenings instead of cooking or eating out, put a container in the microwave and within seconds you have a home cooked meal. You end up cooking about two or three time per week. You save time, money, and get variety.
Plan Your Road Trip Snacks
When you go to the park, visit friends, the movies or just away from home -bring our own snacks. It saves an average of twenty to thirty dollars a week or $1,300 a year. Also, when visiting family and friends you don’t inconvenience them by having them feel like they need to feed you, and you know your food was prepared with clean hands in a clean place.
Plan Your Dining Out
When you do eat out, plan and budget for those occasions. By planning ahead and allowing for the cost of the meal, you find yourself able to enjoy it more and not worry. Do try to limit these outings to once a month as they can add up quickly. One dinner for four could easily cover a week’s food budget for the same family.
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This is good information.
Thanks
I have to say that those homemade lunches go a long way. I never calculated the annual total because of course it depends on what the alternative options cost. But I do know that homemade lunches are also faster to eat (no to/fro to restaurant/cafe) so that it allows my hubby to go for a walk after lunch… The bit of fresh air is a welcome bonus…
A very good piece of advice, as these expenses can add up, as you already calculated.
good tips
Cooking the food for the week ahead is a good idea but it would have to be more carefully decided since the food must not get spoilt
Packing a lunch is the bomb. It is especially great if somebody else packs it for you. After a few months of packing, I notice the money piling up in my account.
It’s the little savings you make every day that always make the difference.
Packing lunch can save you $$$ daily. I always wonder when people at work buy their lunch, they do tend to be younger than me though, probably less responsibilities….
congratulations on a great blog with useful tips. I am all thumbs up with your content but find your theme a little groomy. Any plans to change it?
congratulations on a great blog with useful tips. I am all thumbs up with your content but find your theme a little groomy. Any plans to change it to pink?
i’ve wasted $$$$ not packing my lunch i find myself buying a subway everyday or so. i could save so much
I so need to plan my lunches more. I tend to buy lots of food at the weekend, but then get up too late to actually prepare anything, and I’m too tired in the evenings to do it then. Thanks for the encouragement.
Look after the cents and the dollars look after themselves.
True, very true
in these times save whatever you can. Thanks for this nice article.
What with food prices the way they are right now it is a very good idea to try to save on groceries.
Thoughtful planning can help to save a descent sum of money.
pretty good stuff, but i wonder why nowadays there has been no activity at brigidsblog??
Tanks you
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Really Good work, will browse your blog regularly
Preparing a week menu helps you budget your meals. There’s a lot of great tips here.
Home cooking always saves money. Especially in the pace of take-aways or eating out.
yeah, planning is very important
everything need plan
Very true indeed – little by little everything adds up heh
You really can save a lot by bringing food to work and not eating out… Raw foods such as vegetables and fruits lose over half of their vitamin and enzymatic content during the course of two days…
Making your lunch and eating at home saves tons of money. It may increase you food bill, but over all it will save you money. Nice Post!
Up until now, I always ordered lunch. But you’re right – lots of money are spent uselessly, when you already have some leftovers home.
Nice tips, thanks
You gotta save money where you can nowadays
these are some great tips. thanks for sharing this!
We are definatly in the do the cooking at the weekend camp. We both work so its great to just be able to cook rice or pasta and heat up what you made at the weekend wether its a bolognase sauce or chicken and vegetables in a white wine sauce.
You have to save money.
I am doing some preparations to my kids already and it works well. It saves time,energy and with these new ideas you have, maybe it can add to my old ways. Try this one.:)
I try to only spend $5 a day on lunch… but hey I am helping the economy right!
Willis, thanks for posting the data. The correlation between dO18 and HadCRUT is -0.1, not significant. Is that a surprise?
Great Advice – Planning is definitely key to saving money. Keeping it up is the real trick
good nice blog
that the roof has a road painted on it, should kind of give it away that this is real.
Well written and informative; thanks a lot
Yes! Your tips can be easily implemented in real life. Home food management is crucial for happy family.
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I eat out every meal.. If I could start saving I could invest that money into something I want to do with my life. I really should start doing this.
yes…I agree with you…budgeting and planning is the best to see where your money goes…and I do the plan for my lunch daily…nothing is better than a home-made foods.
It’s crazy how much extra food can cost if you don’t plan. I save about $50 dollars a week bringing my sandwich to work. Good tips though.
Really good tips. I think by preparing our own foods would have save a lot.
Really great tips. I can make four meals for $10 just sauteing zuccini, carrots, and bean sprouts from albertsons.
Hey, great post, very well written. You should write more about this.
Planning is the key. A weekly trip to Costco helps us save a bundle as well!
Nice post.
Planning is definitely the key to saving money. Great post.
in relating to the health,.
don’t forget to stay up,..
thank you,..