How I Meal Plan/Grocery Shop/Save a lil Money

When I plan our menu for the week I sit down with a pen and paper old school style and decide which meals I want to cook. I’ll come up with about 5-6 meals. I’ve found that if I buy too much produce it will end up going bad before I can cook it so I like to shop for about 6 nights worth at the most.  The first thing I do is scroll Pinterest. I'll search healthy air fryer recipes, easy healthy meals, maybe a meal with a specific protein or previous meals I've cooked under the Healthy album. I finally made a binder and started printing my recipes. It makes it so much easier!

 Once I decide what I’m going to cook, I make a Menu. This isn’t the exact order I will cook these meals. I like to have a different protein each night to mix it up a bit. If there is a ton of leftovers I might skip a night of cooking.

When I make my grocery list I make different categories:

-Frozen/Cold/Pantry/Produce/Misc to try to make my trip a little easier.

Being a stay at home mom, I try to find different ways  to make a little extra spending money when I can. Nowadays there are many apps that offer cash back or giftcards. My favorite apps to use are Ibotta and Fetch. I've received around $500 from Ibotta and just recently started using Fetch but have already received an amazon giftcard. 

https://ibotta.com/r/asjkkls Here is the Ibotta link

Fetch: Enter my referral code, N7PUW at the sign-up screen and you'll get 2,000 Fetch Points ($2.00 in points!) when you complete one receipt. Download here https://bit.ly/2Ay6caM


Next I'll search my apps to see which items I can get money back on. For Ibotta you can select your store, search the items and add which items you want to shop for. With Fetch you can just search the items to add to your list but you don't have to. You can just upload your recipt after shopping and it adds the points for you.

 I love grocery pickup, but I like to grocery shop when my  husband is home with the kids. It's my escape. I don't get out much, can you tell?!? I typically shop at Walmart or HEB. I think HEBs food is better quality but I got to Walmart a lot because I usually need like 294849374 extra non grocery items.

Lately I’ve been trying to cook high protein, low carb and low sugar. It’s just how I typically eat. Mainly a Keto diet but I do eat carbs I just try to limit them.

Happy Shopping!!