Eating Cheap and still Eating Well

My family of four spends only $500 a month on all kinds of food put together. And that includes eating out. How much does that work out to, you ask? That's just $125 a month to a person or slightly more than a dollar a meal a person. No, we don't spend our lives scrounging for coupons, and were not practically starving. We aren't even constantly thinking about money and counting how many spoonfuls of spaghetti each person can have. You just have to follow a few common sense rules.

For some reason, eating out is a huge part of most people's budgets. Eating out easily cost 10 times what the same thing would cost you at home. This doesn't mean you can never get to have a little fun time dining out. It just can't be more than once a month, is all. All you need to do is to polish up your cooking skills. There are plenty of websites out there that try to help you re-create restaurant meals from famous restaurants all around the country right at home. All you need to do is to get with that. And when you do have to go eat out, make sure that you do it with a Groupon coupon.

So that takes care of some of the waste. There is more that you need to take care of. A lot of waste in the home comes from not planning things out correctly. When you go to the supermarket for your weekly shopping, you need first of all to have planned out every meal you make the following week. If you don't do this, you'll find that there will be stuff that you have bought in the fridge, that's just getting old at some point. You can never allow foods that you bought and put in the fridge to go to waste because you just made whatever seemed like a good idea at the moment at each mealtime.

Planning every meal out before you head for the grocery store brings you another huge advantage you can look at all the grocery store flyers that have arrived, and decide where to go. Also, if you have the flyers on hand before you go, you can even decide to make meals following week with the kind of thing great use they have on sale. You could design your menu around what happens to be on promotion that week. Planning is great in one other way too. It helps you stay clear of impulse purchases.

We often wonder about how people can manage in the Third World countries, to make do on just five dollars a day or so for a whole family. Well, one secret to this is that they don't even have processed foods. They head to the market, and there maybe two brands of ketchup, frozen foods are unheard of, and processed foods just don't exist. When you stay away from processed foods, you can just cut down on your food bills like crazy. There's another little trick that they have in the Third World countries.

India for instance, is vegetarian in large part. Even people who do eat meat save it for special occasions. Eat vegetable-based meals for the most part, and you'll find that eating cheap is no trouble at all. Not to mention, everyone's going to be healthy.

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