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For the last few months, I have been pondering creating a cook book. I've made hand-written ones for friends, handed out several recipes and cooked many different things for friends and family. 

So this year, I'm doing it. 

Every paycheck, I budget out how much money Nathan and I are going to spend on food (which for him is most of the monthly budget after bills come out). I look at different sites like southernsavers.com and e-meals to see what i kind of food is going to be on sale. Plus, I cut a few coupons here and there (I am in no way an extremist with coupons, I use maybe 5 at a time and only buy things I am going to use, not stockpile items I will never need).  After figuring out if chicken is on sale, or Campbell's soup is having a special, I sit down and create a menu for our house for about 2 1/2 weeks. Nathan has exactly 1 day to tell me if he wants to change anything on the menu before I go to the grocery store (if not we argue about what's for dinner every single night lol). 

A lot of the recipes I am going to post I've found on Pinterest, recipe sites, or even my own creations and I've tweaked a little bit to make them taste even better. I'll try to put in ways to substitute different things to make them healthier/ low carb/ low calorie when I can (most of them I can thanks to a full year of living healthy and losing 37 lbs).  With all that said...good luck and welcome to dinner at the Beatty's :)

Happy Eating!