Budget
Jon had a wellness check yesterday. It revealed that his cholesterol is borderline to being bad. Soรย he needs to get it down in the good area. (His family has a history of heart disease, so we’re taking this kinda seriously.) With that they gave him a list of foods to avoid and foods to eat. This now just puts more pressure on me to do a weekly menu, so I’m giving him the foods he needs, and it puts more strain on the food budget. We were soo not following the food budget before and I was trying to follow it this month but we’ve gone overรย because of a Costco trip. (How do you factor in a years worth of Britta water filters?) Anyways. We’re needing to redo the food budget so we can get more of the fresh foods he needs and the higher costing butter or egg substitutes. Ah, more money to find in the budget to spend. Oh how everything costs so much.
May 24th, 2007 at 9:59 pm
Costco blows the budget every time. I’ve been trying really really hard to only go to costco every other week- and then another store the weeks in between. So if I only go to a store once a week I naturally spend less money. That’s my big tip. I’m not always great at it. But I’m trying. I’ve cut the money that I spend by 2/3 since we’ve moved here. Mostly it’s by just not going to the store (or anywhere else).