I was originally searching for a monthly financial budget template when I came across this whole bundle. From the start, when I saw the bundle I kept saying to myself, "spending this amount of money on paperwork" isn't going to help me get my monthly expenses under control. Eventually, I was offered a coupon and I was sold. My husband and I sat down early this year and started our monthly expense planning but I've found myself using the monthly, daily meal planner more. I hate cooking, I'm a full time teacher with 3 active children (lots of extra curricular activities) and I have financial goals. While working on the monthly budget, I realized groceries and other food expenses were keeping us from saving as much as we could have been. (How many times have I purchased for meals to cook and because I'm lazy from teaching PE all day and running to extra c. with the kids, I don't cook? A LOT)We've waisted so much money on groceries that never get eaten. So, in the long run, using this meal template and setting up a monthly calendar of meals has been helpful with saving money. It helps that my husband loves to cook. So, I'll happily run my kids from here to there while he cooks. It takes some time to organize a month worth of ideas. But once you've done it, it's so nice. I used a similar method to what they recommended, by having a theme each night of the week. Last week I was able to purchase two weeks worth of groceries and I have about 8 meals left before purchasing for the last week in Jan.
