I haven’t posted one of there in quite a while. Mostly because that I haven’t been so disciplined with the meal plans causing them to be very on and off lately. What I have been and continue to be strict with, is our food budget. As I have written about before, we have a weekly […]
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Lack of planning can cost us a lot of money! Let me explain what I mean with that: When evening comes and we are all more or less, tired hungry and grumpy (I am especially grumpy when I am hungry…), and suddenly no one knows what to cook for dinner or what we even have […]
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Planning what to eat makes every-day easier. Period. It saves time and it saves money. Does that mean that I make a meal plan for every week of the year? No! But, the weeks that I do it, I see that I use much less time figuring out what to cook and much less money […]
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Have you heard of Meatless Mondays? Meatless Mondays is an international campaign that encourages people not to eat meat on Mondays in order to improve their health and that of the climate by eating and producing less meat. In the past months I have tried to incorporate meatless Mondays in our weekly meal plan (and […]
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First week of school is behind us and it went very well. It was all new and a bit overwhelming but in the end the little boy was a hero and proved that he is definitely not a baby anymore! Before us is a new week that needs new planning. This new school year we […]
Save Something for a Rainy Day
I worry too much. Give me something that I know will happen in the near future – projects, events, what to do with the kids during the looong school holidays, etc. – and I directly start to worry and plan around it. Dear Husband says it is annoying and unnecessary but I think he loves […]
Saving in Ikea
Today Dear Husband and I went to Ikea to get a frame for a new poster. You may not know this about me, but I LOVE Ikea. I think it is something about childhood memories and the fact that it looks exactly the same everywhere so that you can play pretend for a few hours […]