Budget Meal Planning - Mastering The Daily Reinvetion

Mastering Food Reinvention By Planning Meals Once A Week

But for those of us whose concern is not blowing our frugal grocery budget, avoiding an extra trip to the grocery store, even with coupons requires a little reinventing when you write your weekly grocery list.

When you've mastered the basics of writing a frugal grocery list and couponing, those bare cupboard days won't be as challenging because you will have a stockpile of your basic kitchen staples, to use for experimental meals:)

For me, when the cupboards are bare, it's time for devising a new comfort food.

Many of my ideas for "what's for dinner", start with some basic items that I always have on hand in my kitchen.

Canola oil, flour and a cupboard with my favorite spices for healthy flavor mix well with the leftovers that are always a part of my meal planning.

I get upset when food goes to waste, so when writing a grocery list for the weekly meal plan, I'm already conceiving new ideas to reinvent a meal we had the night before or from something I have frozen for future use.

It is the basic stockpiled ingredients found in my kitchen that have provided and yielded some of the tastiest and most frugal recipes on the fly, I've ever come up with.

Whether the idea starts with a foundation for a sauce or a soup. It's easy, to reinvent a meal from the past into something new.

Imagination and fearlessness after all, are the mothers of reinvention and sticking to a budget.

If you don't care to be a great cook, no problem.

Learning a few basic skills and techniques, like how to change the consistency of a basic sauce are not hard to learn and will soon have you imagining more than sauces and soups.

You'll begin imagining fillings, toppings and more!

Basic ingredients can be the foundation of what will satisfy the biggest or the pickiest appetites of your family.

Pastas, rice, potatoes, day old or stale bread shouldn't go to waste because when mingled with leftover ingredients, you can save a ton of money and your imaginative reinvention will shine and become a comfort food for your family.

Family dinner time is more than just a time to feed. It's a time to create family memories some of which will last a lifetime and bring laughter about even a failed reinvention:)

Here's to being imaginative, resourceful, and fearless when meal planning.

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