Meal Planning?!

We need a meal plan. Definitely.

We tend to just go to the grocery store and buy whatever we want off the shelves. No bueno. We spend too much money on food that we don't even need.

So I've decided we need to meal plan. At least have two weeks worth of meal plans to go grocery shopping for. That way, we know what we're going to eat, when we're going to eat it and we know what to go shopping for.

Husband is behind it. He thinks that it'll be a good thing, especially because we've been like this for so long. No budget or anything, we just get what we want when we want it. And sad thing is, we really can't afford this. With meal planning (and couponing, another thing I wish to venture into this year), we can do our best to cut costs at the grocery store, instead of just going in there and spending willy-nilly.

I'd like to also sit down with my husband and set up a monthly budget, keep track of spending, stuff like that.  Not only do I want to do this, but I feel like we need to do this. My parents never showed me how to manage my finances and for the longest time I had no idea how to. But my parents had two houses go into foreclosure, cars repo'ed, etc. I don't want to be like that. I don't want to set that example for Little Miss and any other future children that Husband and I have.

I want to grow up and be responsible. And seeing as I am the most disorganized person on the planet, I figure organizing things like meals and budgets and stuff like that would be the best place to start.

I'm looking online for meal planning templates, but I think I'll make my own. And I plan on getting a picture frame from the dollar store and turning them into a dry-erase board, so I don't have to print off several hundred of these things.

I guess I'm wishing myself good luck here. Hopefully I don't stray from the beaten path on this.