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Welcome to Radical Personal Finance, the show dedicated to providing you with the knowledge, skills, insight, and encouragement you need to live a rich and meaningful life now, while building a plan for financial freedom in 10 years or less.

My guest today is Katura Free. Katura is a personal finance

blogger and she's a wife and mother. And today she's here to share some of her experience

and some of her knowledge and insight into how you can save money by learning to more effectively cook at home.

Katerra, welcome to Radical Personal Finance.

Thank you. Thanks for having me.

So I've invited you on a secret society of Radical Personal Finance guests

to talk today about meal preparation.

I know this is something that you care a lot about, you write a lot about on your website,

free to cook.com, and I'd love for you to start though by simply sharing your story. What's your personal story as it relates to money?

Our personal story is I am a mother of four. My husband and I, a handful of years ago, we were kind of doing the what we like to call hot bunking where my

a military term I like it.

Yes, yes.

My husband worked nights and I worked during the day so our bed was constantly hot from someone being in there.

You know that that made it very difficult for us to have good quality family time. So a lot of times you know we would just kind of do whatever but the days that he was off it was

really important for us to have family mealtime a while back we had read some stuff from a therapist that had

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