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I want to share my thoughts with you about how we manage food at home. I lived with my parents until I got married, which was 2 years ago. It was after I learned my husband's system of managing food that I realized that my parents and I did not have a system so a lot of food and money was wasted. I discovered that my husband's system saves money and lessens food waste. The former benefits our wallets and latter benefits the environment. So this is how he does it. He is very organized. He actually has an inventory list of the staple food in our home and that includes the examples of rice, soy sauce, ginger, garlic, milk and eggs. He checks the physical inventory at home to see which ones he needs to buy during his weekly grocery shopping trip. He also checks flyers of his two favorite supermarkets to see what is on sale to determine what groceries to buy. He only buys groceries that are on sale so he has a list of sale items that he refers to. Only buying groceries that are on sale saves a lot of money. Sometimes I tell him that I crave a certain food but he tells me to wait until it goes on sale. So I surrender my craving and then suddenly he brings my craved food home when I did not expect it because I did not know it went on sale. The other way that we save money is that he brings lunch to work everyday. Buying lunch is expensive. How we do that is when I cook dinner, I cook extra food so he has lunch to bring the next day. The way that we meal plan is that we plan our meals two days ahead. This amount of time is required because it takes a day to defrost frozen meat. So every two days, we defrost meat from the freezer and the meat will be ready when it is time for me to cook it. In terms of vegetables and fruits, he only buys enough for the week. He is very accurate to estimate how much he and I eat per meal so he know how much vegetables and fruits for the week. So by the time grocery shopping day arrives, all the vegetables and fruits are eaten. That in a nutshell, is how we manage food at home.
I want to share my thoughts with you about how we manage food at home. I lived with my parents until I got married, which was 2 years ago. It was after I learned my husband's system of managing food that I realized that my parents and I did not have a system so a lot of food and money was wasted. I discovered that my husband's system saves money and lessens food waste. The former benefits our wallets and latter benefits the environment. So this is how he does it. He is very organized. He actually has an inventory list of the staple food in our home and that includes the examples of rice, soy sauce, ginger, garlic, milk and eggs. He checks the physical inventory at home to see which ones he needs to buy during his weekly grocery shopping trip. He also checks flyers of his two favorite supermarkets to see what is on sale to determine what groceries to buy. He only buys groceries that are on sale so he has a list of sale items that he refers to. Only buying groceries that are on sale saves a lot of money. Sometimes I tell him that I crave a certain food but he tells me to wait until it goes on sale. So I surrender my craving and then suddenly he brings my craved food home when I did not expect it because I did not know it went on sale. The other way that we save money is that he brings lunch to work everyday. Buying lunch is expensive. How we do that is when I cook dinner, I cook extra food so he has lunch to bring the next day. The way that we meal plan is that we plan our meals two days ahead. This amount of time is required because it takes a day to defrost frozen meat. So every two days, we defrost meat from the freezer and the meat will be ready when it is time for me to cook it. In terms of vegetables and fruits, he only buys enough for the week. He is very accurate to estimate how much he and I eat per meal so he know how much vegetables and fruits for the week. So by the time grocery shopping day arrives, all the vegetables and fruits are eaten. That in a nutshell, is how we manage food at home.
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