We started e-mealz!

One of the things I have always struggled with is meal planning and grocery shopping. If you know me at all, you know I'm not much of a cook. Since we started our budget in November, trying to be creative with meal planning has been even MORE difficult. So, we are trying something new. This month we signed up for e-mealz. It is a website suggested by Dave Ramsey, that plans your meals and grocery shopping for you on a weekly basis. You can check it out by clicking the banners on my blog. It was only $15 for 3 months. You pick a grocery store and a meal plan. We chose Wal-mart for 2 people (since Cooper just eats off our plates anyway).

On the Menu for this week is:
Honey Pecan Chicken
Grilled Mexican Burgers
Cajun Red Beans and Rice
So-Good Chicken Enchiladas
Breakfast Dinner Pizza

The website chooses the menu items based on what is on sale at the store you chose, so the ingredients for some of these foods should be on sale at Wal-mart. According to this week, the total cost for this weeks meals should be only $43.33 at Wal-mart. Since we usually have a budget of $300 a month for groceries...if we can spend about $40 a week on groceries, we should save OVER $100 this month on groceries!!

I'll keep you updated on how things go. Planning on going shopping tomorrow for the week!