How Can Meal Planning Help My Budget?
Didn't I Just Feed You
Stacie Billis and Meghan Splawn
4.8 • 611 Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Want to know how to meal plan (well enough) to save money on groceries? We talk through the meal planning tips and tools that go the furthest to maximize your grocery budget.
Looking to reduce the overwhelm of feeding your family? Want to save time and money too? Then it’s time to get serious about meal planning. Yes, even if you’ve tried before, and especially if you’re thinking, “But I’m not a planner.” Meal planning is the #1 most reliable way to reduce stress and save time and money, so we’ve made it possible for anyone to become a meal planner on their own terms with our Meal Planning for Everyone audio course. Crack your meal planning code: learn more today.
LINKS
- Meal Planning for Everyone audio course
- Our episode, How to Make a Meal Plan Template (requires a subscription/membership)
- Our episode, Meal Planning on a Budget
- Our episode, Meal Planning Isn’t Magic But You Should Do It Anyway
- Our episode, How to Grocery Shop Without a Meal Plan
- Our episode, Reverse Meal Planning
- Global Food Prices Index
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| 0:00.0 | You just don't make up a number. I wasn't like, oh, we're going to only spend $250 a week. |
| 0:09.0 | I looked at what we previously spent. I looked at the individual prices of the things that we |
| 0:15.9 | regularly buy and then started to make plans around those things. |
| 0:22.6 | Welcome to Didn't I Just Feed You, a weekly podcast about feeding families. |
| 0:27.5 | Hey, I'm Megan. |
| 0:29.1 | And I'm Stacy. |
| 0:30.9 | Today we are going to be talking about how meal planning can help your budget. |
| 0:35.9 | We have covered this topic before in an episode called |
| 0:38.6 | meal planning on a budget, but so much has changed since we've recorded that back in, |
| 0:43.8 | what, Megan, it was like February 2021, I think, right? Yes. Yeah. It's a while ago. So we're going to |
| 0:50.4 | talk about inflation. I'm sure you all feel like it has definitely impacted your |
| 0:54.5 | budget. We're also going to talk about ways that maybe it isn't affecting your budget, even though you |
| 1:00.8 | feel like it is, and how we think that meal planning can help save you money in all different |
| 1:07.3 | ways, regardless of inflation. Yes, worth mentioning before we get into that, we recently launched an audio course |
| 1:15.4 | all about meal planning called meal planning for everyone. |
| 1:19.1 | Not only does it include 12 classes with us, there are also four bonus classes with |
| 1:24.3 | contributors like Justing of Cooksmarts and Kelsey Nixon of recipe club. |
| 1:28.8 | And there's also a new community exclusively for meal planners. |
| 1:33.3 | Check it out by visiting didn't I just feed you.com backslash meal planning for everyone. |
| 1:38.3 | Stacey. |
| 1:39.2 | Let's get right into it. |
| 1:41.2 | I'm laughing a little bit because I kind of know the answer already. But how is your |
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