Success!

So... because you are dying to know how our meal-planning and budgeting is going, let me give you an update. Since I bought Quicken, it's been doing my budgeting for me (well, categorizing items and then compiling it so I can see what we are spending). It downloaded from our bank website December's info, so I can compare last month's spending to this month. Can I just say how amazed I am at how much money we have saved??? We cut our overall food (including eating out and groceries) budget in HALF! Wow. It makes me realize how much convenience really costs.

Tonight I went grocery shopping after Wyatt went to bed and I stuck to my list for our meals and such for this week. It really makes shopping so much more rewarding to know that what I'm buying is going to get eaten! I'm not a big coupon cutter, but I'm fairly happy with my cereal deal I got tonight. General Mills cereals were on sale at Hyvee, I had a Hyvee coupon and two General Mills coupons, so I ended up with three boxes for $5.53. Not too shabby. Now, I know there are some ridiculous coupon blogs out there where the store basically pays them to buy food - I will never have the patience for that. I'm happy with my semi-cheap cereal purchase. :)

I'm hoping we don't get too much of a blizzard these next few days, but I'm happy to have my cupboards and fridge stocked. :) Hope you are all staying warm and safe!