Once I started planning both my menus and my shopping list together, I found that I saved myself not only a great deal of money, but also a great deal of sanity. Dinner time is no longer quite as stressful as it once was. Not only saving money and sanity, menu planning also saved me time.
I discovered something very important: a little bit of time spent planning my menu and shopping for the week ahead saved me around an hour each day, not including the time it would take to run to the store for a missing ingredient.
Since beginning to get serious about menu planning consistently, and using these principles I'm going to share with you in figuring out my grocery list and menu plan, I have saved myself more time, money, and stress than I ever would imagined. Yes, my time and money went up, while my stress went down, all from spending a little extra time planning.

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