Weekly Meal Planning + Groceries for a Family of 4 | $125 Per Week
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- čas přidán 15. 06. 2024
- With the price of groceries increasing like crazy, this was a video that came highly requested! Sharing my current meal planning process for our family of 4 as well as how I stick to a budget of $125 per week on groceries. Do I always get it perfectly right? No! But most weeks I do, and having this plan in place is what allows our family to stay on track both in terms of budget eating healthy, home-cooked meals.
Do you have any go-to recipes or meal planning tips that your family loves? Feel free to share them below!
TIMESTAMPS
00:00 - Intro?
01:45 - Why Meal Plan?
04:11 - Our Budget for Groceries
05:11 - Budget Exceptions
05:40 - How We Achieve This Budget
07:43 - How I Meal Plan
11:35 - Our Family Recipe Bank
13:44 - Where I Grocery Shop
17:14 - Our Meal Schedule
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Now I want to hear about your meal planning process (if you have one)! ☺ How often do you guys grocery shop? Do you have a budget for groceries? If so, what do you do to stay on track? If you have any great family friendly meal ideas/recipes, feel free to share them below!
I LOVE using the Walmart app even if I am going into store I will put everything into my cart previously to stay in budget then I’ll delete the items as I put them into cart. It’s helped me so much to stay in budget.
Ok this is actually a great idea! That way you can be the one to pick the items, I feel like I would pick better bananas or berries than when I get a pick up order
I would love to see a what my toddler eats in a day video and how you budget for snacks and lunches. I have a toddler as well and he eats a ton of snacks.
I’ve thought about filming this but my toddler eats more at meal times than a typical toddler her age so I didn’t know if it would even be helpful to see - I know picky eating can be such a struggle so I haven’t wanted to add to any comparison around that... 😭 but for lunches, she (and my 8 month old) always eat either leftovers from dinner the previous night or a toddler “charcuterie” which usually includes crackers, cheese, cucumbers or baby carrots, fruit, and some sort of meat for protein! For snacks we do lots of fruit, veggies, cheese, nuts, raisins and I also do homemade trail mixes and homemade granola bars. We do also buy goldfish (I love goldfish lol), cheerios and apple sauce!
Recipe for homemade trail mix (toddler friendly edition!) and homemade granola bar recipe please !!!!
Same. I've been working on bringing in more defined snack times for this reason and so were only ever eating at the table. Helps keep the snack foods down a bit. Breakfast 7am, Morning Tea 10am, Lunch Time 12pm, Afternoon Tea 3pm, Dinner Time 6pm. Snack times are often homemade sourdough (very cheap to produce) and fruit or yoghurt so nothing overly packaged. You really do pay for the packaging! Homemade granola bars or oat cookies are another great option that are filling but a bit sweet.
Would love to see a week of family meals. Nothing fancy, just realistic for inspiration!
Hey girl hey!! I am currently 10 weeks pregnant with my first baby, and your channel literally feels God-sent to me. Thank you so much for everything you're doing to help us expecting mommas out, Beth!! God bless you and your growing family, always. 💓🙏 If you happen to see this, I am wondering if you'd be comfortable sharing your experiences with how to budget for a newborn. I know every baby is different, but it would be super helpful getting an idea, especially living in Canada! Lol I'm from Alberta and although I am grateful that taxes aren't as bad, everything just feels so expensive. 😭
can you do a part 2 video including how you plan the week with kids breakfast snacks and lunches and also sharing quick easy dinner recipe ideas or a week with how you practically do use your grocerys each night with the different ingredients you have now that you have explained it in this video?
Love this!! Really helps and encourages us to meal plan!
Love this Beth! Thank you so much for sharing. It's been such a daunting task for me to get back to...cooking healthier meals. Didn't know where to start really. I really love how you laid it all out step by step. Thank you so much ❤
Love this video Beth! Thank you for sharing 😊 Here in NB, things are getting way more expensive as well, but finding new recipes on a budget and good deals for our little family is really enjoyable! I also do online grocery these days and it's definitely so good!!
God bless!
Love the video! I’d love to see a full budget video of how you budget and what the budget looks like!
It's actually crazy how similar our meal planning is! We even have an excel sheet too haha! I need to try ordering my stuff though, I'm one of those people that gets stuck in the way I've always done things and doesn't want to change. But I feel like I could def get our groceries cheaper after watching this.
You’re awesome! Love this.
The spreadsheet is genius. Can’t believe I haven’t thought of it
Thanks for the tips❤
Impressive! Thanks for sharing
Loved your tips and examples! Mine are limiting convenience items. Shopping generic brands. Shopping from my house first so i am supplementing what we already have to work with so meals are planned accordingly. Choosing in season produce. Buy sales, clearance/markdowns. Use cuts of meat that arent the most expensive and find unique and tasty ways to use them
Loved this video! So helpful. I would love to see how you budget for snacks and which ones you find to be budget-friendly/healthy!
Make your own!
Hi Grace, love your channel!!!
I just wanted to share my ultimate meal prep recipe that I do for my husband every week, its within a cheap budget and high in protein, if any fellow ladies are also meal prepping for their husbands work 🤍
Save the bacon and sausage drippings!!! I save EVERY drop and cook up a pound of ground beef in it. Total game changer for flavor. Then I sautee one or two potatoes in home rendered ghee (super easy & cheap) and like 8 eggs and maybe some rice. Freeze all your leftover cooked bacon - it thaws perfectly in this recipe. Keeps perfect in the fridge for five days easy.
That amount for US is probably in cities or for those who aren’t trying to budget at all. We spend around 750/month for a family of 7 and we eat whole, natural foods, mainly avoid processed (my kids occasionally do have Annie’s Mac & cheese, so not 100%) but we mainly eat produce, meat, fish, seeds, beans, brown rice, quinoa, oats, nuts (real nuts like macadamia nuts, almonds, cashews, Brazil nuts, not peanuts, which are much cheaper, but legumes). Most of what we buy is organic. We make a lot from scratch. I have even found it literally only takes 15 mins of hands on time to make our sandwich bread from scratch. We live in the Midwest now so groceries aren’t as high as out east, though it is more expensive than when we lived out West. It can vary so much from area to area. We also buyer cheaper cuts instead of things like steak. I dislike steak anyways, but my husband loves it. Since our family knows we don’t buy it, when his family visits, they will get him steak at restaurant as a fun treat, make it when we visit (very infrequent since they live across the country), and my dad will bring some for holidays. They don’t have to, but it is super thoughtful and makes it more fun and special than if he had it all of the time. Otherwise we mainly do organic ground beef, routisserie chicken, and pork butt. Ham and turkey seasonally, when on sale. And the kids and I love salmon burgers, tuna, and sardines. Our kids have their daddy’s insanely fast metabolism too so they eat more than most adults. So the sheer quantity we go through is a lot and I usually have to double or quadruple recipes I find. 🫣 Thanks for sharing your tips and ideas! 🥰
We've been trying to be more conscious lately of grocery cost but oh my goodness are groceries expensive. We meal plan but have a lot of dietary restrictions right now so its still pricey, but shopping at Aldi for some stuff helps! I would love to see a week of dinners (with cost included of each meal) and more grocery/cooking videos.
This is how I generally meal plan too! Learning to cook from scratch is definitely a game changer. A tip I have is knowing what meals you can make with specific ingredients to make sure you use them up. For example, if I get plain Greek yogurt I know I’m going to make Greek food (use the yogurt for a marinade and the tzatziki) butter chicken (marinade and naan bread) and some overnight oats for breakfast. Long gone are the days are letting ingredients go bad in the fridge!!
If you have any left over yogurt you can also use it to bake banana bread, muffins or pancakes, which you can then also freeze to have some easy to grab foods for a later date
You’re so organised beth! Goals!!! 👏🏼
Can I ask what that recipe is with the “cheesy sauce” on top of the chicken breast (+ potatoes & asparagus). Do you have a link?! Looks soooo good 🤤
Mayo parmesan chicken - so good! I make the topping up as I go now with whatever herbs we have on hand but it's always a variation of this recipe here! 4sonrus.com/mayo-parmesan-chicken/
I too have Walmart + for the sake of saving my precious time and spending it on more meaningful things. I also find that I ALWAYS overspend and buy things I never intended on purchasing if I go in store. Especially with 3 little one s
Meal plan on Sundays and buy the groceries on Monday. Grocery shop once a week. I generally do pick up which allows me to see an exact total for budget purposes. I LOVE meal planning. My favorite planner is by a local printing company called Ramona and Ruth
I also buy a good amount of food from 2-3 local farmers markets
We buy meats in bulk from a local organic free range farm. From there we make sure we have our staples and weekly we will get fresh produce! We probably spend like $350-400/mo USD. Thats with a few convenience items as we are surviving 2u2 😅
I also want to add in we have a decent garden so thats saving us a bit currentky!
We meal plan and cook mostly from scratch, but groceries are insanely expensive here in New Zealand. We pay about $1500 NZD per month for three adults and one toddler (about $1000 USD). That does include food, cleaning products, baby supplies, and toiletries though.
Australian here, We budget $200-250 AUD ($175-220 CAD) per week on groceries. EEK.
This video came in clutch for me. We are a family of two with one on the way and I find that we spend around $200/week on groceries. It’s actually ridiculous. 😅. My hubs is a protein freak. He eats so much protein (beef and chicken) during the week that makes meal planning more expensive. I will be using the tips in this video
Through 2020/2021 I wasn't really keeping track of how much we were spending on groceries. When I finally realized how much we were spending on food I needed to start meal planning. we are still spending a bit more than I would like however the progress we have made is hopeful. Groceries are expensive here in Canada I will say.
In California and there’s no way we can have such a small weekly budget for our family! 😭 but that’s bc of the recession we are currently experiencing
I love the mean planner calendar you are using! Do you have a link?
Thank you for this beautiful video, Beth! For our family of three with one on the way I try to stick to £50 per week for food shopping, I love to meal plan and we mostly shop at Lidl here in the UK x
This is definitely my goal, I just don't know where to begin with the "how to cook". I will find a recipe that sounds good and then go to the grocery store for the ingredients and what do you know, 3 planned meals comes out to $200 USD. And then with cooking it I take so long and am glued to the recipe on my phone like google maps in a new area. Then, good luck getting the side done at the same time as the entree. I'm a mess in the kitchen.
Try to find some recipes with ingredients that overlap, I find that's always helpful for cutting costs! For example, you could plan to do burritos and chilli in one week and a lot of those ingredients would overlap which cuts back on cost... and when it comes to easy recipes, searching for things that are quick and don't have a ton of ingredients on Pinterest could be helpful as well - start with low maintenance and work up from there! Try looking up "simple sheet pan dinners" and see if anything catches your eye!
Thanks for this video!! My 21 month old daughter doesn’t like leftovers lol 😩
I plan a whole month of meals on a large calendar😅. And since meat is expensive I bulk buy and freeze. We also do eat some vegetarian/vegan meals to cut costs. Also coupons!!
A month - this is impressive 🤯
Would you ever share your family recipe bank? I would love that!
I've been trying to figure out if there's a way!! I need to bite the bullet and create a website I could host it on haha!
We budget about $100 a week USD so that tracks similar to ours!
Thank you for sharing! Do you freeze your meat? I have a hard time remembering to take it out of the freezer or it goes bad in the fridge bc we end up eating out or something. Thanks!
I also use Walmart delivery! Do you buy anything in bulk?
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Question; I’ve always been good with our family dinners, but heavily struggle with lunch (and making sure kids get a balanced lunch). What does that look like for you?
Lunch is leftovers for our family 90% of the time! Otherwise we often do "snack" lunches which are basically like cheap charcuterie haha with crackers, some sort of protein, fruits and veggies!
Groceries arre difficult right now. We are a family of 4. Also in Canada, ans now that i have one teen and one growing five year old, I had to up the budget to $600/month.. $125/week is GREAT! Thats exactly what i did with little kids, we sre vegetarian and i actually find that easier... Beans are cheap! Mine inckudes toilet paper cleaning etc but not pets. Dumbest idea we wver had was the 4 pets we have lol! Love them but... on our income we really shouldn't have... We could use that money. Oh well, lesson learned. Well enjoy them while we can! Because of how much the teen is eating i ahop at costco now which is very challenging onnthis budget but basically we just dont get any cool stuff
I meal prep, as in make a list before I shop of meals for the week but girllllll groceries are SO expensive. It’s ridiculous we just spent $260 😑
Difficult times for young and old like me 78 widow. Sad lonely and so worried for the short future for me. Financial worries and fear daily.
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Love these tips & I have that notebook too! I swear by the cook 4x with 2 leftover nights per week rule. Saves both time & money for my family🩷👨👩👧