Meal Plan With Me End Of April 2022 - VIP ONLY VLOG

by Kristie Cirak May 04, 2022

There was no 'Meal Plan With Me' video last fortnight because we went away!!!! It was nice to have the break :) If you would like to see our trip pop on over to the Travel Vlog playlist on the main YouTube channel!

This fortnight was all about avoiding wastage in my emergency stockpile, so as I was sorting that area out I came across some meal bases (quiet a lot) that either had just gone past their best before date or were about to expire. You can checkout my find on this Stockpile Update here. So full focus this fortnight has been on cooking those up and putting most of it into the meal plan for this fortnight.

My rule for setting a grocery budget is $70 per adult (persons aged 14yrs+ because we all know that teenagers eat as much as adults at this point!) and $50 per child (under 14yrs) in the household is the main grocery shop budget for a fortnight. I feel no matter where you are living in Australia - city, country or coastal states - it's a fair $ goal for your budget. For us that is $240 for the main shop in the first week. I then have a flat $70 for the top up shop in the second week of the fortnight. I base that off what ever I set per adult. So in total that is NORMALLY $310 for the fortnight for my family of 4.

So be sure to watch the matching grocery haul to see if I stay under budget !

Some tools I used to do my meal planning were:

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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.

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