Please Share Your Time Saving Tips

Is it just me, or are there TONS of resources out there for saving money? *Cough cough* Real Food on a Real Budget ad on your right. Frugal blogs galore. And, there are lots of “how to cook” e-courses floating around. Yet my biggest stumbling block is TIME. I’m not alone. When I was on an Alice Waters webinar a few months ago, they polled the audience to find out what the biggest obstacle to cooking at home is and the winner by a long shot was lack of time.

But Wendy, you’re probably saying, you have no kids. You should have oodles and oodles of time. Maybe, but after working 8-5 and then going to exercise class or meeting up with friends for various clubs or driving out to pick up my milk, there are days I just don’t feel like waiting to eat dinner until 8 PM. I normally try to do my baking and dairying on the weekend, but there’s also cleaning and gardening and yardwork to do. If we go to the camper for the weekend none of the above get done.

Meal planning has really helped, when I carve out the time to do it. (I LOVE Living Cookbook Recipe Management Software for that). But if the recipe I’ve planned takes an hour and something comes up after work, that sort of throws a monkey wrench into the whole business.
Prepping as soon as I get home from the CSA pickup or farmer’s market also helps. Not so much last night, as I picked up my share on the way home from work and we had to rush to the American Brew Trail taping, but usually.
Enlisting DH to pick up things on the way home from work (whether it be Thai food takeout or ingredients for last minute dinners ha ha)

So, dear readers and fellow Fight Back Friday participants. Please share your time saving tips.

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