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April 13th, 2012, 06:44 AM
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Who does most of the cooking at your house?

Does the chef meal plan ahead of time?

Who does the grocery shopping?

Do you have a budget for your groceries?
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April 13th, 2012, 07:33 AM
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Who does most of the cooking at your house? Me

Does the chef meal plan ahead of time? I try...sometimes the "planning" doesn't happen like it should and I have to wing it at the last minute

Who does the grocery shopping? I do that as well.

Do you have a budget for your groceries? Eh, not really. I try to watch for sales and I coupon, though, to keep thing reasonable.
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April 13th, 2012, 07:52 AM
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I do the cooking, and I generally do menu for the whole month before shopping. I like to make sure there is a lot of variety in the month. get sick of the same things all the time!
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April 13th, 2012, 08:07 AM
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Who does most of the cooking at your house? Me

Does the chef meal plan ahead of time? Yes, 1 wks worth

Who does the grocery shopping? All of us

Do you have a budget for your groceries? Yup
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April 13th, 2012, 08:11 AM
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Who does most of the cooking at your house? Mostly me, but hubby is a good cook when he does once in a while

Does the chef meal plan ahead of time? Yes weekly!
Who does the grocery shopping? Mostly me, unless i ask him to go, but he usually keeps the kids for me.

Do you have a budget for your groceries? Kind of, I make one but dont always follow it.
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April 13th, 2012, 08:23 AM
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Who does most of the cooking at your house? both of us...we usually take turns based on who is feeling more inspired

Does the chef meal plan ahead of time? some weeks we do, some weeks we dont...some weeks we only meal plan for half of the week.

Who does the grocery shopping? both of us. occasionally, my husband will pick something up on the way home.

Do you have a budget for your groceries? we have a weekly budget for spending, period. if we choose to spend more on food that week, we just spend less on something else.
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April 13th, 2012, 11:06 AM
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I do all meal planning and 95% of the cooking (the 5% is going out to eat or DH throwing something I've made for the freezer into the oven). I normally do all of the grocery shopping, but being pregnant and sick with a cold DH has gone the past 2 out of 3 times. He does get a detailed shopping list.

We normally stick to a $50 a week budget, but that always goes out the window the first 6-8 weeks we're in a new house. We have to buy all the basics again since we start off with almost nothing after a PCS (I keep dried spices and that's about it). That really adds up quickly. This past week I was down to $60 so I bet I can be back down to $50 or less by beginning of May.

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(Which suddenly reminds me that I'm way behind on posting several recipes! Oops!)
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April 13th, 2012, 11:18 AM
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Who does most of the cooking at your house? We are pretty 50-50 in the cooking department. We do lots of "quick and easy" stuff...so it is just whoever doesn't have a kid or decides to make dinner. If it is something more complicated than just a half hour or so, I do it during the day.

Does the chef meal plan ahead of time?I do all of the meal planning. When DH is cooking, he asks me what is for dinner. He has no clue what to make. I generally get out what's for dinner...at least the dry stuff...early in the day so if he gets to it first, he can start it without having to ask what we are having (unless the ingredients don't make it obvious).

Who does the grocery shopping? Me. He will stop for the one or two things I might forget or need on the fly (milk, fruit). But I do the big weekly run.

Do you have a budget for your groceries? We have an overall budget for each week that I have to stay in. It is for everything from gas to groceries to entertainment. So I guess we have a grocery budget. Most of the weekly money goes toward groceries. And gas for my truck...which is decidedly ungreen
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April 13th, 2012, 11:30 AM
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Who does most of the cooking at your house? Me!

Does the chef meal plan ahead of time? No, other than I try to take meat out to thaw the night before and have the time I forget.

Who does the grocery shopping? Me!

Do you have a budget for your groceries? Nope, just try to get good deals when I can.
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April 13th, 2012, 02:40 PM
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Who does most of the cooking at your house? DH takes care of breakfast, I do lunch and dinner

Does the chef meal plan ahead of time? We are just starting to plan meals in advance for the week

Who does the grocery shopping? DH and I like to go together while my mom watches the kiddo

Do you have a budget for your groceries? Along with meal planning, we are just starting to implement a food budget. I think it's gonna be hard for us to stick to it, we are such food snobs
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April 13th, 2012, 06:25 PM
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Who does most of the cooking at your house? I do it all. I mostly enjoy it, but some nights I'm lazy and just want pizza or just throw some fish sticks in the oven

Does the chef meal plan ahead of time? I usually plan the night before

Who does the grocery shopping? Me

Do you have a budget for your groceries? Generally I use the money I make from babysitting ($50/week) to get groceries. If we need meat, or extra, Nick gives me whatever extra I need.
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April 13th, 2012, 07:39 PM
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Who does most of the cooking at your house? Me. SO did cook tonight though and last night. But generally I cook.

Does the chef meal plan ahead of time? Sometimes. Depends on the day and how tired I am.

Who does the grocery shopping? Both of us We go together and pick what we want to have that week.

Do you have a budget for your groceries? We did when money was super tight. That was rough since we had like $40-50 to make last as long as we could. Now things are much more relaxed, so we don't really budget budget, but I check sales and stuff.
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April 13th, 2012, 07:52 PM
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Who does most of the cooking at your house? Its really 50/50 between DH and I because DH LOVES to cook. There are some nights that I want to cook and he is like "No I want too" so we then have to decide who cooks. lol

Does the chef meal plan ahead of time? Most of the time, yes.

Who does the grocery shopping? DH and I together.

Do you have a budget for your groceries? Yes we do.
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April 15th, 2012, 03:28 PM
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I do most of the shopping and cooking. I love to cook. I do not do meal planning, it is whatever we're hungry for that day. I don't have a budget, but I do like to try to keep it at $100 a week.
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