Financial Update

Our new financial plan of "cash only" has been working great so far. Our first Sunday of trying this, we went to the bank and withdrew a specified amount of money that was supposed to last us a week. It ended up lasting us two weeks!!!!!

We made a grocery list and dinner menu the day before (Saturday) to last us two weeks. I like to only go to the grocery store once every other week of possible. Every now and then we do have to make a quick stop, but we try to get everything we need on our one trip.

We cooked dinner EVERY night (including the weekends) for 2 weeks. The only two nights we ate out were nights when Ben had church softball. Since he has football weightlifting until 6:00pm every night, and softball starts at 7:30pm, we didn't have much time to cook, eat at home, and clean up. One night we drove thru Pal's (YUM!!!) and the other night we had Pizza.

Here was our menu for those first two weeks:
Sunday- Beer Can Chicken
Monday- Roast
Tuesday- Pal's Hotdogs
Wednesday- Shrimp Stirfry
Thursday- Grilled Chicken
Friday- Steak
Saturday- Ham

Sunday- Lasagna w/Ben's Parents
Monday- Smothered Pork Chops
Tuesday- Rocky's Pizza
Wednesday- Hot Dogs
Thursday- Grilled Chicken
Friday- (can't remember, ha)
Saturday- Cookout at my Parents'

I LOVE cooking dinner. It's so much cheaper than eating out and I don't know if I'm just crazy, but after a while...eating out gets old. Plus, Aidyn is at that "inbetween" stage where he isn't the best to take out to eat. He is not quite big enough to sit in a high chair (since he can't sit up on his own yet), and he doesn't like sititng in his car seat. This means that he either fusses or someone ends up holding him while they eat. At fast food places it isn't a big deal, but at nicer restaurants...it isn't as much fun.

Here is our "menu" for this week and next.
Sunday- Applebees
Monday- Pizza
Tuesday- Ham
Wednesday- Grilled Shrimp
Thursday- ? (High School Graduation)
Friday- Spaghetti
Saturday- Crawfish Boil at a Friend's

Sunday- Amigos
Monday- Pork Chops
Tuesday- ? (Church Softball)
Wednesday- Hamburgers
Thursday- Grilled Chicken
Friday- Lasagna
Saturday- Ribs

Yum! We have started trying new recipes as well. One we are wanting to try (if you watch Food Network) is Tyler Perry's Baked Mac & Cheese with Bacon. It looks soooooo delicious!