Meal Plan With Me - April 2019 Back To Monthly Shopping!

by This Mum At Home April 12, 2019

I'm back to monthly meal planning and shopping!!!!!! I cant express how excited I am about this lol lol lol Although you have probably already seen on the grocery haul just how excited I am :) I love grocery shopping, I really do. However with my lifestyle at the moment balancing working from home, family time and house needs, doing the shopping weekly and filming around 3 videos every week was a struggle I'm not going to lie! It unfortunately effected my work as I had to prioritize my family and home first before doing any extra work on teh VIP Lounge and This Mum At Home blog in general. It was really disappointing to me to not get out new blog posts and videos on any of teh This Mum At Home platforms. Time is one of the big reasons I now shop monthly (since being able to stay on a monthly grocery budget even as weekly). I hated not having that extra time .... not to worry I'm back to monthly and this month is already looking positive to getting back on track with things!

With some new VIP members I've decided to go through some of the printable's I use for meal planning in a little more detail. Normally I show a few but show and talk more about what foods I have left in my fridge, freezer and pantry. SO you will see its a little different in this months video, but I think you will enjoy seeing what I'm up to with my planning :)

So for April I have a set budget of $400 for this months big grocery shop plus my usual $50 per week extras budget (usually adds up to $150 by the end of the month). So that would be a total of $550 for the entire month and just around $137 per week on average for our family of 4.

Tools I used to do my meal planning were:

(VIP's use the shop code found on the private Facebook Group to download FREE)

So that is where I'm at this week. Be sure to check out the matching grocery haul vlog if you want to see what I got and how I went with staying within my budget.

Stay tuned here on the VIP lounge to see future 'Meal Plan With Me' vlogs along with other ways to simplify a busy mummas life!

Print out the new updated design of the Monthly Meal Planning 4pk using the VIP shop code found on the Facebook Group!