Something that I'm trying to do a better job of these days is meal planning. I grew up doing meal plans for my family so naturally, when I got married, it carried over. I slacked off on it when my daughter was born though and have had a tough time getting back into it. Now that she's 16 months old, I feel like she can no longer be my excuse! What I have been doing is buying the same old stuff and figuring out our meals when I go to make dinner each evening. Sounds good, but in reality it wasn't. More often than not, I would discover the chicken wasn't thawed, or I didn't have an important ingredient, or not enough time to make the dish, or we would just eat out. But finally, I'd had enough, it was high time to get back into planning out my meals and start doing a little bit of couponing to save my family some money. So that's where I am today.
