I am taking the budgeting seriously this month. I want to come up with a concrete budget monthly plan. And to get that, I need numbers as proof. So what I have been doing since the first of the month was log all expenses. I also have been refraining from spending anything else from what [...]
It’s the first week of the month and most of us are busy planning out our monthly household budgets. If there is one thing families almost always overspend on, that would be food. While my father taught me that good food has no price tag, we all should learn to be smart and learn to [...]
I’m getting better at it – grocery shopping and meal planning that is. Before I used to forget a lot of stuff we need and it is always a pain to run out of something here in the neck of the woods where we live. I also tend to either overybuy stuff or underbuy it. [...]
Ever since vacation started I have been trying to be creative with my menu planning and make allowance for a lot of healthy snacks since I have two kids with me the whole day. I really want to fatten them up in preparation for the next schoolyear. It’s hard, given that I really don’t like [...]
We are now trying to be more prudent in our spending (the operative word is try) and one of the things I try to be consistent with is listing our weekly grocery expenses and market expenses. This includes the necessities we buy on the grocery and the fresh produce we get from the market that [...]
It’s going to be all about veggies this week. We were very blessed to have half a sack full of vegetables from Baguio so we are going to put them all to good use (Dad came from Lucena with one box of bulalo too!)
So here is the menu for the week: Monday: [...]
Im trying to limit our intake of pork to once a week (or twice) – usually when Edil is here. The kids don’t like pork too much and well, it would not do me any good if I *ate* pork. So I bought around 3kilos of chicken last Saturday to be made into different meals [...]
Im in a bind. I never knew meal planning for THREE people will be this hard. Take note the three people consists of one adult (ME), a grade schooler (age 7 – Matthew) and a toddler (age 2 – Martha). Clearly, we require very different calorie intake and food types.
My kids are not really big [...]