[vbludwig]

You will save some big amount of money if you plan your meals, it could be weekly or monthly. It stops you from buying excess food that you don't require. You can also prepare less expensive meals in advance rather than just buying what you want everytime when you go outside. All this time I've been trying to make my dinner plan, and so far I've managed to stick to it so I don't buy food other than what's in my plan. Indeed, I feel that I will save more. What is difficult is when on my plan I scheduled to eat chicken, but I am craving to eat lamb. This will make me shake against this plan. Fortunately so far, I have been able to stick to the plan.

What do you think about the idea of making a meal plan? Do you have your own plan?

[Spontaneo]

I do the best that I can. I usually prepare dinner for roommates and myself, but lately we have been fending for ourselves.

When it comes to our grocery shopping, the roommates "allow" me basic foods for myself, such as canned tuna, canned chicken breast and ramen noodles with our grocery money. So, I have to improvise. For example, maybe one day tuna salad sandwiches. The next day maybe Acapulco Tuna Salad.

When we do have meals together, I usually prepare pasta, grill cheeses or kielbasa. That is what they want so that is what they get.

It is really just routine.

[darkuszerx]

I am subscribing to the catering service at my neighbor's, so he makes me food every day. So I've planned out in the next month how much money I will spend to eat and determined what food I want to eat. Later, my neighbors will cook random food that I have chosen to serve every day.

[bismillahdehoke]

I don't have a regular meal plan, but I always make my own schedule for what I want to eat on Monday and what I will eat the next day, at least for a week. When we talk about how I can save on my meal, I can say that I always set a spending limit for my daily budget.

[dvanbasten]

I use daily catering services, so they are the ones who make my daily food schedule. Using catering services is like cook by myself, it can help me save more when compared to buying food outside.

[smoothmeatball]

Actually, what I think is that when we already have a schedule but we want to eat something else, what should we do? Because sometimes it will be very difficult to avoid our desires.