Organization is Critical
Amanda admits that life with a house full of young children can be chaos. That’s why having a firm system of organization is essential. For example, to avoid making multiple weekly trips to the grocery store, Amanda makes a monthly shopping trip for non-perishable items. She spends about $1100 on this trip.
This means that she only needs to make a few smaller shopping trips for fresh produce and dairy. She budgets $400 for these perishable items. Then she stores everything in a large deep freezer in the basement and a kitchen freezer upstairs. They could use another freezer, but she makes due.