What a week! And it’s only Tuesday. hahaha!
This past weekend was supposed to be full of baseball and the rain was determined not to let that happen. As I’m typing this on Monday early, early morning I can hear it raining outside now, but I have my fingers crossed baseball will still be played this afternoon.
I don’t know about you, but I love taking a little look at how you guys do things in your homes. It’s fun to see the way others go about handling the big and more often than not, the small things.
Here are a few of the topics we’ve covered in this series…
Three Kids {Shared when I was a mom of three}
Today, I’m talking about how I handle groceries. This task used to take a couple hours each week and now it takes me around thirty minutes. Winning!
I sit down weekly with my computer, planner, and this new meal planner to figure out our meals and get the grocery shopping started.
My favorite places for recipes are Shay’s blog, friends {word of mouth}, and Pinterest.
I ordered this meal planner from Erin a few months ago. It’s super helpful and makes recycling meals super easy.
This is a look at the inside. There’s a perforated edge right in the middle of the page. See what I mean about easy to remember and recycle recipes/meals? The pages on the left have your past meals so any family favorites are easy to remember.
A look at the process…my brother, sister-in-law, and two nephews arrived last night so with baseball up in the air my goal was to have some food on hand that was easy.
I didn’t take a picture of my planner but I had my planner out as well to see what nights would be all ten of us here for dinner around dinner time, what nights kids have practice and we might be eating in shifts, etc.
I write all my groceries on the right and then hop on over to my local grocery store online.
This is my mid-online grocery order. If you haven’t tried the online grocery order, stop what you’re doing and TRY IT!
It cuts down on grocery shopping time tremendously. Typically by the time I drive to my grocery store, call, they bring my order to the car, and I return home it’s under thirty minutes. Saves me lots of time every week!
Plus, I don’t know about you but I’m an add to cart kind of girl. I walk by the double stuff Oreos and guess what? I’m tossing a box in my cart. But online shopping doesn’t really tempt me that way. Well, at least when I’m grocery shopping. 😉
I find myself really sticking to the list as well as saving money!
Grocery pick-up is CRAZY easy! You pull into a designated spot, call, and they bring your groceries.
I might pop into the store once a week to grab something we need that’s fresh. But that’s it! Super easy! And it saves me time.
How do YOU handle the grocery shopping? Do YOU grocery pick up? And if so, what are two words you’d use to describe it?
XO
