Saving with Menu Planning

by Kimberly Eddy

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.

Genres: Nonfiction

55 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 21, 2012

About the author

Hi there. My name is Kimberly Eddy, a freelance designer and author out of Mid-Michigan. I love helping fellow moms and entrepreneurs bring their projects to life through my skills and expertise through my services, my ebooks, and my website, Thoughts & Designs.

Here's a little more about me:
I am a graphic artist, specializing in developing beautiful logos for entrepreneurs. I've been creating graphic artwork and illustration for 30 years now.

I am also a serial entrepreneur, writer and productivity junkie.

I write and create from my experience helping other entrepreneurs and WAHM wannabes. My writings focus on the more practical aspects of *how* to make your side hustle a reality as well as living a productive life.

You'll find ebooks (some currently going through major updates) to help you:
:: Get more done without sacrificing what matters most to you
:: Save money relatively painlessly so you can invest in your future
:: Having a better work-life balance
:: What you need to launch your own web presence
:: Raising great kids
... and more.


{My Story: Confessions of a Serial Entrepreneur }

I was born and raised just outside of Detroit, Michigan in the late 60s in a comfortably middle-class family. I was drawn to the arts at a young age but discouraged from pursuing design as a vocation until I was in college studying to be a science teacher.

I've generated side hustles since my second year of college at Northern Michigan University. After graduation, I followed my wanderlust to Europe. I backpacked across central and eastern Europe.

I settled in Austria for a season to live and work before returning to home.

After moving back home to Michigan I married my toolmaker husband and worked a few jobs in the print and design industry. We raised five now-adult children. My priorities mainly focused on hearth and home while my children were young.

I took on small freelance jobs when time permitted:

:: designing menus for small restaurants
:: creating business cards for entrepreneurs
:: developing logos for several small businesses (and one church)

Later, as my children grew, our financial situation took a nosedive in the early 2000s with a series of job losses. I branched out to creating dynamic websites for a wide variety of clients. I continued to offer logo design services, calligraphy, freelance writing, and layout design.

And I learned how to make our pennies stretch while keeping a positive attitude and working to better our situation.

I write from these experiences and the lessons learned throughout my life.

I enjoy helping potential entrepreneurs bring their projects to life affordably. I provide encouragement and inspiration to anyone hoping to start their own side hustle or get more done in their daily lives without sacrificing what matters most to them.

Look for Thoughts and Designs on Instagram (@thoughtsanddesigns), Facebook (@thoughtsdesigns), and Twitter (@thoughtsndesign).