Are you on a strict budget? Whether you are out exploring new borders, planning a staycation or simply want to get more room in your everyday life, planning your meals for the entire week can get you a long way towards making more profit in your monthly or weekly food budgets. There are multiple tips and tricks that you can use to help you with food planning and optimise your daily time and budget. Scandinavians Make More Profit In Everyday Life With Food Planning.
In this article, you can pick up a few simple and smart tricks to get more space in your meal budget and your plans for the day, leaving you with more time and money on hand to try other activities or save up for your next trip abroad. Perhaps to Scandinavia? Plan for the entire week, make large portions, prep in advance, or try meal box solutions like HelloFresh which provides you with fresh inspiration and ingredients straight through your front door.
Shop for the entire week
Whether you are away on vacation or just like to have fun around in your local area, you likely may not want to spend precious time every single day inside the supermarket. Creating a meal plan for the entire week and handling your shopping in one go cannot only save you time but also money. Let your idea for one particular dish inspire the next with shared elements and pick recipes based on common ingredients. This also helps you with reducing food waste.
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Make larger portions
It is not like you must eat the same meal every day of the week but making larger portions than usual can help you save money and avoid food waste. If you are not too keen on spending time in the kitchen, making larger portions to last you for multiple days helps you to get it over with in a single cooking session.
Some dishes are also great to put in the freezer for a quick and easy meal at a later time. Gone are the days of using only half of the vegetable bundle and let the rest slowly be forgotten at the back of the fridge.
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Prepare in advance
Use the extra time that you have on your hands at the weekends smartly by preparing for the coming week’s menu. A great idea is that you dedicate an hour or so on your Sundays to cook and chop a batch. Chop the vegetables, wash the lettuce and herbs and perhaps cook the meat that does not suffer from being prepared a couple of days in advance, such as chicken.
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Try meal box solutions
For when time is truly limited for shopping and making your way through the entire supermarket, there are smart solutions to help you cut corners and create more space and surplus energy in your busy schedule. It could also be that you need fresh inspiration for trying a new meal instead of sticking with the same old rotations of dishes that you likely have tried one too many times.
HelloFresh is a great alternative for you who neither has the time nor the creativity to come up with delicious new dishes. Great food doesn’t have to be complicated. With HelloFresh’s meal boxes you can get all the ingredients you need alongside a step-by-step recipe to guide you from start to finish.
Select between more than 18 recipes every week and easily adjust when and how much you want to order. With delivery straight to your door, you can also skip much of the time spent in busy supermarkets each week.
Scandinavians Make More Profit In Everyday Life With Food Planning, article sponsored by HelloFresh
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