How to manage food, time and budget

11-12 April 2015 VTsIOM polled 1,600 people VTsIOM. Press release № 2837. One of the questions was dedicated to healthy eating. Statistics showed that 36% of respondents are trying to eat healthy foods. 20% do not think about the quality of food and eat what they can afford. That is one in five were malnourished. Its diet depends on the size of the salary and the price in the store. Agree, not a good approach to nutrition?

Healthy eating - this investment. You invest in the future.

Data yet for 2016, but even from a comparison of 2014 and 2015 may be seen allPrices in Russia - 2016. Statistical compendium. Beef, for example, increased by 56 rubles per year. Red fish in 2014 was worth 450 rubles per kilogram. In 2016 loin of salmon already cost 1000 rubles per kilogram.

I'm working remotely since last summer. After two months of home cooking I have devoured. The question "What to cook for dinner?" Loomed in the morning. In addition to dinner, I thought about dinner, because to go out of the house in the cafe - it is irrational. No problems with breakfast. Constant trips to the store several times increased the cost of food. I realized that this must have something to do.

To optimize the budget for food and eat wholesome and useful, I borrowed the idea from the visitors.

On any hike tourists make the layout. It's a full meal plan at all times. It is believed to grams. For example, the supper will be considered as follows: (300 g buckwheat + ⅓ banks stew + 2 + bread tea + sugar + 20 g of biscuit) × 6 persons. Therefore, buy 2 kg of buckwheat, 2 cans of stew, a loaf of bread, sugar, and two packets of biscuits. And so for every meal.

Layout unloads the head. No need to think, what to cook for dinner today.

Schedule power conveniently be as often as you travel to the store. I do this once a week. At the weekend we have the whole family sit down to planning. Everyone expresses his wishes. Children are asked to pancakes, pancakes, etc., head of the family - the steak. I know I definitely need to include healthy foods in the weekly menu: fish, cheese and meat.

All requests are distributed on weekdays. Useful alternate with unuseful. It soothes the family members. They know that if the fish has been today, then tomorrow will necessarily be pancakes or cheese cakes. The remaining empty cells fill as desired.

When I have a clear plan for a week, I go to a smaller café on weekdays. I know that I have for dinner tonight, what products are purchased for this and how much money is spent. If I sing today in the cafe, dinner will be gone. Tomorrow I have other products are planned. Therefore, I consider in terms of even the possibility of meeting with friends.

meal plan discipline. You eat better and eat less on the side.

I make a plan, taking into account the schedule of all family members. If I have planned the evening meeting, I do not plan on that day or stuffed pancakes: most likely, will not have time to cook and have to eat dumplings. On the day when his son training, for dinner be sure to cook the meat. In other raids on the refrigerator will be made until late at night.

On weekends, I do not plan anything but soup. So I leave the freedom to choose the members of the household. We can go to friends and dine there or go to a cafe. I deliberately plan a meal away from home. It animates the menu and unloads hostess.

When there is a plan, I lay in the own schedule time for cooking.

Initially, I was a menu in plastic pouches. I subscribed dishes on the card and is inserted into the pockets vizitochnitsy. When planning the menu, simply insert the card "soup" in the dining pocket. There is a new dish - set up a new card. Color cards to help navigate the dishes. Yellow - side dishes. Orange - the first meal.

Now cards are a reminder that I can cook. I look at them when I make the menu. Do it on paper is more convenient. Here is my template for menu.

Menu on paper is more convenient to attach to the refrigerator and fill up quickly.

When compiled weekly plan, comes the turn of shops. You look at the weekly menu and prescribe products that will be needed. On casserole - to buy a cottage for the first - meat on the bone, cod - fish for the day. Of these products to create a list. It is designed precisely for the week, so nothing more can not buy in the store.

When I went without such a list, I bought fresh meat and fresh fish at the same time. Because eat it fresh once was impossible, had to clean something in the freezer. So I overpaid for the freshness that with the same success could be bought immediately frozen.

product lists on paper are inconvenient. Forget the house, and you go to the store on the way home from work. If the store calls in another member of the family, you need to check whether he took the list.

I switched to electronic lists. Program the phone shows a list of other family members. If one purchased, and noted - the product is eliminated from the list.

Program synced to your computer, so the faster the list of score through the computer.

It is convenient to go to a large supermarket once a week. This saves time because you do everything at once. You choose what is planned. Pay for freshness, if the product is in the plan for the next three days. Buy fresh fish on Saturday to eat it on Thursday, then throw your money away.

If you go shopping after work, difficult to follow the plan. The nearest shop can not be the fish that you have planned for the day. Or meat quality confuses you, and according to plan today steaks. Set for dinner foods in this case dictates the range of shops.

Mostly analyst revealed that bought in large stores profitable.

The most expensive - run into the store after work. Hungry Brain buys products randomly.

Weekly planning to make life easier. The family often eats fish and is not perturbed. Free up more time because stopped going to the store every day. Thoughts about what to cook for dinner, do not distract from the work.

Basic Rules

• Ask family members about their preferences.
• Distribute evenly useful and unprofitable products on schedule.
• Adjust the menu at their own schedule.
• Buy products based on the menu for the week.
• Purchased a one-time and do not go to the store after work.