New year - new goals! We are really trying to tighten the buckles on finances right now and Mark has already been successfully using cash only for his purchases - I plan to start that after
the new year as well. I am also excited to join
Money Saving Mom in her
Eat From The Pantry Challenge -The plan is simple - eat from your pantry ! We all have frozen foods and cans of veggies tucked in the back of the pantry that we never use and the point of this challenge is to save money and eat food you already have. I will be stealing menu ideas from the
Prudent Homemaker who has easy meals planned out for months!
Here are my goals which will be tricky since Sam is dairy free - he wont be able to eat what we eat and I may end up spending more money on his "special" foods but I will do my best!
1) To be realistic I am giving myself 2 weeks to do this - if i can manage longer - great!
2) Spend no more than $30 per week on food
3) No eating out
simple right?
I will try to post some of our meals and how we are doing on the blog as well! Wish us luck!
the new year as well. I am also excited to join Money Saving Mom in her Eat From The Pantry Challenge -The plan is simple - eat from your pantry ! We all have frozen foods and cans of veggies tucked in the back of the pantry that we never use and the point of this challenge is to save money and eat food you already have. I will be stealing menu ideas from the Prudent Homemaker who has easy meals planned out for months!
Sam gave us a great Christmas present... he slept in until 7:30! That never happens, so thank you Sammy!! I set the tree on the floor for some good photo ops and of course Sam was thrilled that he finally had access to all the ornaments! He could care less about his gifts - he just wanted those ornaments! He pulled the tree down 3 times in the short 10 mins we sat there opening gifts - just glad we decided against the BIG tree this year - that would have been a disaster! 
We had a nice breakfast and then spent the rest of the morning packing and getting ready to head to MD to see my side of the family. We left around 11am and got there at 2pm - no traffic at all =) Michelle and her family and Jeff and his family were all there - Granny was there as well. We had a great dinner and then headed downstairs for pictures and presents! Once again Sam was more interested in other things... beth's dress, justin's DSi, and of course the ornaments on the tree =) 
