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[quote=Anonymous]Great tips from the PP.

Be honest here: how much are you actually spending on food?  You need to include every time you stop by chop't for a salad, every starbucks coffee, every pizza that you pick up on Friday night.  Are you cooking meals from scratch or are you relying on a lot of pre-prepared/convenience food?

Believe me, I know that with 2 under 2, it is hard to do this, but this made a huge cost difference for us:  we plan meals and shop weekly.  If you have a schedule of what you are eating, it takes the thinking part out of making dinner and makes it less tempting to go for the prepared food/quick run to grocery store/takeout.  We can easily drop $30-40 on one takeout meal (our kids are older and eat more), but $30-40 buys probably 3 really nice meals from scratch, even shopping at Whole Foods!  We started meal planning when our 2nd was born (so we had a 3 yr old and a baby).  It was hard at first, but we've now built up a repertoire of go-to meals.  2 cookbooks I would recommend are Fresh Food Fast (Martha stewart) and Robin Miller's Quick Fix Meals (which includes meal "kits" & morph recipes that are great for making ahead when you have more time & then quick on the weeknight).

Personally, I would find other ways to save before dropping the housecleaner.  That's me.[/quote]

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