In my Steps to Success post I wrote about Step #4 – The List. You can click over there for more info. Today I want to talk about the perpetual grocery list. I’m still trying to come up with a better name than “perpetual”, but “items you buy every week” is just too long!
I don’t know why it took me so long to create a weekly grocery list. I used to have a grocery list of everything that I bought at the store….not the items that I needed to buy weekly. The list of everything was sooooo overwhelming.
I find that if I focus on one week at a time
I do much better and don’t get overwhelmed quite as much.
Listed below are the items I buy weekly {click image to enlarge}:
You can read about my $100 {ish} budget on my post “Step 2: The Budget”. On this perpetual grocery list are the foods that I want to buy and serve my family every week. $77 of my $100 is already allocated.
Here are the results of this weeks’ shopping trip {click on image to enlarge}:
Want to know why we eat so much meat? My post over at Hummingbird Homemaking will explain a few things.
Having a grocery list definitely saves you money AND time. Check out other frugal tips at Life as Mom.
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GroceryCartChallenge
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2 comments
Erika
December 8, 2011 at 10:57 AM (UTC -6) Link to this comment
Lists are so important! I decided last week I wasn’t in the mood to plan or write a list and my spending was almost tripled! I am sure the combination of no list and being hungry when I went shopping is what sunk me last week
Johnlyn
December 11, 2011 at 11:56 AM (UTC -6) Link to this comment
Erika – I hate it when that happens, it’s happened to me more times than I want to count. It’s my rebellious nature I guess!