If you are trying to save money on food, the first thing you have to do is to make a budget-friendly meal plan for a week or month. Planning a week or month-long meal will be hard and time-consuming but it very effective in saving money on food.

Here are a few tips which will come in handy while planning the meal plan:

• Make Menu: Plan what you and your family will have for breakfast, lunch, and dinner
• Plan your meal based on foods that are cheap on the market
• Try planning at least one or two meatless meals a week
• Check your shelf and refrigerator for items which are due near to the expiry date
• Avoid recipes which require special and costly ingredients
• Look for seasonal recipes with vegetables and fruits that are cheaper in season
• Plan to use leftover food from the previous day as much as possible
• Talk to your family and try to know what your family likes to eat
• Enjoy grains such as rice, pasta, barley more often that are inexpensive

Planning a budget-friendly meal could be difficult and hard to follow. But if you could follow the above-said tips, planning a weekly or monthly meal plan would be easy.