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 You need to feed yourself and your family at home, take something for lunch with you, give your children to school, or eat in a cafeteria, cafe, and you also want to sit in a restaurant, at least occasionally, and there are still holidays, family events - food takes a significant place in your life and in the family budget.
How to meet your home budget, how to save money, and, moreover, eat hearty and full-fledged meals?
The biggest thought in saving the family's food budget is that you must know exactly what you need to buy in the store. Not something vague that you liked in the store and what will fill your refrigerator, but it should be a list of specific products.
To do this, you need to plan a daily home menu, including Sunday family meals, anticipated holidays, family events with a feast.
To do this, you need to make a menu for a week, roughly estimate what you will (plan) cook on these days, for example: on Monday cheesecakes for breakfast, cabbage soup with sauerkraut on beef brisket and chicken cutlets with potatoes for lunch, dinner - vegetable salad, baked fish. In addition, you need to take into account afternoon snacks, children's snacks, tea, coffee, a daily set of fruits, bread and other dishes.
It is advisable that all members of your family take part in drawing up the menu, which is very important, then what you put in the home menu will be guaranteed to be eaten. Moreover, in such a menu, you can take into account the dishes that can be prepared from the leftovers from yesterday, for example, the leftovers of several boiled potatoes can be used in a morning salad or in an omelet.
Thus, a menu is drawn up for the entire current week, and a selection (list) of products that you will need for a week is made, including products that you need to buy every day (bread, milk, cottage cheese etc.), and products that can be bought for the whole week (potatoes, onions, meat, etc.). In some cases, it is possible to purchase products at once in large quantities (in bulk), for example flour, sugar, cereals, those products that you use constantly and in large quantities. In these cases, some discounts on food are possible, which is very important if the family is large.
Now you go to the store with a list of products in your hands for the next 2-3 days, and buy only those products that are indicated there, and do not type everything in a row, although the temptation is certainly great. Everything in the store is so colorful, everything is so tasty, and I want to buy both that and that, imagining at this time what you would like to cook from them, but these products no longer fit into your menu, and may turn out to be superfluous, unused in the refrigerator and at the same time the intended menu will break. Therefore, you must be decisive and strictly follow the list. This will allow you to significantly save your family budget.
It is advisable to choose such methods of making a menu, a list of groceries, and delivering groceries home that will suit your family and will not be burdensome in terms of money, time, but on the contrary will save you money, time, energy, and over time you will acquire a good habit of healthy and proper nutrition.
Perhaps, in your menu for a week and then there will be not so many dishes, sometimes your own imagination is not enough to come up with new dishes.
Our forum will help you with this, which contains a huge number of dishes, including soups, meat, vegetables, festive, prepared both in the traditional way and using various household appliances, multicooker, pressure cookers.Moreover, you can pick up dishes, both complex and requiring some preparation and time, and very simple, from the products that are always at hand in the refrigerator, and which really fit into your budget. If you're preparing a new recipe for your family, try to prepare a minimum portion first so that everyone in the family can taste and appreciate the dish. If the new dish is not to your taste, then you do not have to look for ways to eliminate it, and feel sorry for the spent products, time and emotions of your family.
Any method of planning the menu will be good, if it is convenient for you to work with it, all family members will accept it, you will receive support from your family, real help.
At first, you will think that it is difficult, unnecessary, time-consuming and so on ... But it is worth trying ... and over time you will feel that this method of meal planning really helps you save money on nutrition for your family, and some amount will be freed up. to make your dreams come true.
Good luck saving your family budget, along with proper and healthy nutrition!
Article author Admin
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