Eating Healthy Without Breaking the Bank

As I'm thinking about making my grocery list for the next week, I thought I'd share some of my favorite money-saving tips to eating healthy.

This Week's Plan

So, in the future I hope to gets these meals plans out early in the week and and I can do more posts highlighting the individual recipes and what-not.  The plans will always end at Saturday morning because after breakfast is when we head out to the farmers' market and do our grocery shopping.  Here is our plan for this week:

What we ate last week

Last week was the first week in a while that we made a meal plan for the week and got all of our shopping done in one day.  We are really going to make a good effort to stick to doing this each weekend as it relieves so much stress during the week to already have everything planned out.  I actually look forward to our shopping day. We go to the farmers' market which I'm really getting excited about because I find our kids get more interested in different things.  The first time my daughter every tried grapes was when a lady at the farmers' market gave her a bunch to try.

Changing Our Diet / The New Blog Plan

Well, I know I've given this a try again before but I'm really going to give it another go. We've had a lot of changes in the past 5 months in the way we eat.  Many we're brought on by a trip to the doctor that forced me to change many things in the way that I eat.  I don't necessarily thinking we we're eating very badly before but we didn't exactly pay attention to everything we put in .our mouths.

The changes in our family since changing the way we eat have been amazing.  I've had some changes in my health (which I'm sill working on) including losing more than 10% of my body weight.  And I really feel that my skin, hair, and nails have really made a change for the better.  My husband and my teenage son have both lost weight.  In fact, we need to buy them new clothes!  We've all had an increase in energy too.

Starting Again; This Week's Plan

One of my goals lately has been  to get back into writing this blog.  When I was doing it I really enjoyed  taking pictures and writing about my cooking.  I might do things a little differently this time around and I might not do an article every day or each one have a recipe.  Even when I haven't been writing I still find myself coming back hear to get dinner ideas based on the things I have tried and really liked.