Click To Recipe – Big Mac Sloppy Joes
Every week I sit down and plan out the following week typically by Wednesday. I ask everyone “what do you want for dinner next week” and then go from there. I know I mentioned that my happy place is lists and organization and I meant that. I also hate grocery shopping, that is NOT my happy place. I don’t think I have stepped foot in a grocery store and done an actual full shopping trip in almost a year and a half.
I live by Instacart and Walmart Grocery Pick up. For those of you that have not yet done either of these you are wasting your precious time (unless that is your happy place, then shop away), I have found that I not only save time I save a crap ton of money. Gone are the days of impulse buying and now I only shop for what we actually need. My grocery bill went from about $120 a week to $80 for my family of 4 (plus Sunday Dinner), and I have the groceries come to me. Actually if you want to know, this week I spent a whopping $57 for our weekly groceries.
Seriously try it out, use these links to save some money on your first go. Thank me later
As you can see, my menu is fancy. We are routine and don’t derive from it often. Every single Thursday everyone knows its a leftover/fend-for-yourself day. I know this week I don’t have any Instant Pot recipes listed but I am a huge advocate of that bad boy.
Sometimes I plan weeks out, it’s fantastic. I feel like I really have my life together when I do that. This is just an example of how I do it, but really I recommend it to everyone. You won’t shop aimlessly and buy things that don’t actually made any real food (really what were you going to do with chocolate chips, a rack of ribs and Fritos?) and your family won’t ask you 800 times what dinner is.
I mentioned that i’m a from scratch kind of cook correct? Most of my recipes won’t include those “homemade from a box” ingredients. Get ya flour, get out ya yeast, make it happen. Unless it’s pasta or french fries, I don’t have time for that 🙂
I know this is supposed to be a simple ‘click to recipe’ blog and you shouldn’t have to read through all my nonsense about shopping online and saving money …so if you missed it at the top, scroll back up. Go ahead and click on that little link that says Click To Recipe – Big Mac Sloppy Joes for Mondays dinner and thanks for reading my babbling.
I have a whole lot of nothing going on this weekend, my list of things to do include nearly all cooking: make sandwich bread, raviolis, tomato sauce, ketchup etc. I’ll be sure to snap a few Instagram worthy photos for you all 🙂
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