…She said today in our new Bradley method childbirth class. Â She was talking about forming habits of nutrition and exercise and relaxation in preparing for Gabriel’s first public appearance this September, but the idea has been carrying over in our minds today as we started think about ways to cut our spending.
Our plan is to put the money that I’m making as a teacher this summer into savings and then depend on my salary and savings to cover our budget from Birthday until the end of the year. Â This was all well and good until the AC unit went out and the warranty company says they won’t cover the repair/replacement. Â But that’s another story. Â The point is that already we are finding unexpected expenses trying to thwart our well-thought-out financial plan. Â So, we still need to be on the look out for things we can sell, things we don’t need to buy and things we can buy cheaper.
One major way that we intend to try to save money and eat healthier at the same time is to be more intentional with our grocery budget. Â We hope to radically change the way we eat by giving us a more healthy and consistent diet of food cooked at home with as little preservatives and additives as possible. Â This will require baby steps, but we hope to map it out on here. Â Rebecca will be largely in charge of showing what we are doing to save financially (she’s the budget queen around the house) and we’ll both be describing our baby-step easy recipes to start moving toward cooking at home more often and what tastes good.
Our plan is to keep this updated at least weekly over the next 12 weeks. Â Please be patient if we have a hard time being consistent… after all, it takes 12 weeks to form a habit.
-Adam