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Plan meals. All of them. You don't have to stick to a schedule, but plan 7 breakfasts, 7 lunches, 7 dinners and approximately 10 snacks per week. Write down the ingredients for those things. Purchase those ingredients. If you decide on Monday that you'd rather have spaghetti than tacos, that's fine. Have tacos another night.

Make shopping lists and then follow them. So when in the produce section, if you see that your list has apples, celery, broccoli, red peppers and kale on it, don't linger in the tropical fruit section. If you're in the meat department to get a steak, don't also get shrimp. It's not that hard. [/quote]

This exactly.  I plan all meals ahead of time and buy exactly what we need - what we have when depends on (1) what I feel like cooking/eating, and (2) what produce/meat needs to be eaten first.  I do two weeks of meal planning at a time, so a lot of what I buy goes into the freezer for week 2 meals.  I also have the ingredients for a couple of standards on-hand at all times for the nights I just don't feel like cooking or am too busy.  Frozen cheese tortellini + pesto, scrambled eggs, quesadillas, etc.

Also, and I really can't stress this enough, be part of the SOLUTION.  HELP your wife plan meals, including things are easy to throw together on nights when you are too busy or exhausted to cook.  Give input.  HELP her grocery shop.  HELP her cook - better yet, give yourself one night per week where you are completely in charge of dinner.  My husband doesn't complain about our grocery bill, but you can bet my first suggestion if he did would be that he have some input.[/quote]

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