Out of Money for the week & Grocery Shopping?

mablesyrup

How do you plan for your meals? As far as grocery shopping goes. Do you allot so much to go once a week and stock up on fresh fruits and veggies? I've consumed all of the fresh fruits and veggies in the house for the week- and have to wait until Monday to get a paycheck. Last night I just ate canned green beans. (yuck- i hate canned food). I do have lots of frozen veggies in can steam today. No big deal there.

So when you've planned poorly for a week- and run out of fresh fruits and veggies/ anything healthy in general- what do YOU do?

girlpersons

I do just what you are doing. with my fresh, i stock up on frozen. once out of one, i hit the other. I have to get creative with the frozen, lots of spices.

oEmmao

i always have a stock of frozen veggies and use them when i run out :flowerforyou:

Chenoachem

I go every couple days to a farmers market. It is cheap and I can get a loaf of fresh bread for $0.99 and some lettace, tomatoes, carrots, celery all for $5 or so and it is all fresh and yummy.

vhuber

If you have canned fruit, rinse the sugar off and you should be ok!

amandajo122

Also eggs are very inexpensive and if you make egg whites and add a little cheese/veggies in, you can make it a dinner besides a breakfast meal.

kbglazier

Also eggs are very inexpensive and if you make egg whites and add a little cheese/veggies in, you can make it a dinner besides a breakfast meal.

I agree. I love 2 egg-egg salad. Put it on a piece of wheat toast or even some wheat thins (which I always keep in stock). As far as veggies go, since I am not a lover of frozen or canned, I usually supplement a multi-vitamin anyway, so when I run out of fresh veggies, I just skip them until I can get to the store.