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Are you trying to save money or maybe you are starting a healthy eating lifestyle? Today, I am going to teach you a special tip that will help you stretch your dollar and also save you time in the kitchen

Today we are talking about saving money and meal planning how do you do those two things together to help you stretch your dollar and save you time well here's the deal we need to start thinking in bulk okay and I'm not talking about going to Sam's and buying up all the big containers of everything you can do that but that is not what I'm talking about specifically today today what I'm talking about is thinking ahead and having meals that have synergy that all feed off of each other and an example of this is chicken if you think about buying one family pack size of chicken and yes you can get this in a normal grocery store or you can get it at your Sam's Club or Costco or any of those types of places you can get a family size pack of chicken and split it up thinking about individual meals what I find is a lot of times people think oh there's only three of us in the house and we'll never eat that much chicken in one sitting well I don't want you to think about just one sitting at a time anymore I want you to think in bulk I want you to think about meals being used out of this one container and so the reason why this is important is because stores often times have sells on meat and meat or meat is one of the most expensive things that you can buy at the grocery store and so it's important for you to get those when they are at their lowest price and and when you can get them in bulk or when you can buy when they're at their lowest price you can get more more of the item for less obviously so I encourage you to think about these things in a different way so I'm gonna use chicken as the example because most people do eat chicken so if you get the family pack of chicken thighs for example that typically they'll have eight to ten pieces of chicken in it well in no normal setting is somebody eating that much chicken in one sitting however when you buy those you can do a couple of things number one you can just take all the chicken out put it on a pan season it all bake it while you're cooking your meal for the day that's not going to take you an extensive amount of time from what you're doing right so that literally to prep the chicken and put in the oven may take you five to ten minutes ten is actually way too much I think it's gonna take you more like five minutes put it in the oven you continue to cook something else or whatever you're gonna eat for the day and then you can pull that chicken out and prep it for other meals so if you think about chicken what can you do with it you can shred a chicken thigh and put it on a salad you can eat the chicken thigh by itself you can put the chicken thigh in a sauce of some sort or with noodles or you know your your zoodles if you're doing keto or pasta if you're not you can put those in a dish and have it ready to go you can actually just take all of the chicken once it's cooked and put it in the freezer in a bag in a ziplock bag and freeze it is gonna freeze individually and when you need some cooked chicken you just take that out let it thaw and you continue to do whatever it is you need to do with it in most recipes it's the meat cooking or browning that takes the most time for the meal prep so that's a way that you can shorten your meal you know your time in prepping a meal that's also a way that you can meal prep throughout the week so if you cook this chicken let's say on Saturday or on Sunday you can then split it among meals throughout the week and like I said you can change the the dynamics of the chicken there are so many varieties and things that you can do with one type of meat that you spread out over time so the point is is that I want you to number one think about buying things in bulk and splitting them out and placing them in the freezer just so that you have saved money in purchasing the meat instead of just buying a small package of chicken because you're making something that requires chicken today so so that alone will save you money but I didn't want to save you not only money but also time at the same time so I hope you found this tip helpful if you would like some additional tips like this please make sure that you number one like this video and subscribe to the channel and then of course comment below with any other videos that you would like to see or any tips that you anything that you need help with in the future until the next video I want you to stay happy and stay organized bye