But What to Do?

We try on the weekends to not do a bunch of running around with errands but some weekends that doesn’t work. This recent weekend after a bust in plans to go out of town with the kids, we took a stab at much needed cabinet restock. Let me say that each time I go food shopping, I always have to stop and say is this worth it? Can I make this from scratch? How do I stretch the dollar even if I coupon? A lot of decisions were made in that 30-minute shopping session. And here are our thoughts (to note, we already eat less meat and that is not due to price but more of being conscious of what we are eating. A balance diet and all):

1. Make it ourselves.

   1. Nothing beats convenience but it is harder and harder to find good quality items that won’t break the bank. We are small business and a lot of our household items come from small businesses. But also, a lot don’t. Again convenience.

2. Canning

   1. I and I say I because I am hands on learner. YouTube is great for a lot of things but I learn best when I have someone guiding me. With that being said, canning overall is very interesting to me, its either you spend all day doing it or you don’t at all. So, I need to decide if that is what I want to do with two children under 2 (this is a time thing).

I know that above two are huge and they are items we will be working towards but how do y’all make things work for y’all?