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Needing help with family living situation

Anonymous in /c/frugal_living

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Hello, I am 20 living in Pennsylvania. I have been noticing that my family is spending a lot more money than before due to not only inflation but how we go about shopping and spending overall. Just like many family's my family could be more frugal, that being said I am having trouble with a few issues.<br><br>1. My family uses Costco but we also buy a lot of stuff from Aldi's due to not only the price but the quality. We have been trying to go more towards Aldi's but we have ran into the issue of Aldi's not having a wide variety of products like Costco. We also at the moment live about 30min away from the closest Aldi's but at least a 45min drive away from Costco. We are moving closer to Aldi's in abt 2 months, meanwhile we have been using delivery more often for Costco. This then gives us the issue of spending more money on the delivery but we will be saving more time.<br><br>2. Our family's diet consists of mainly meat free and sometimes all meat-free meals. My family at the moment is based on buying more expensive vegan meat alternatives. This is more expensive than buying ground turkey or ground beef, like buying ground turkey or ground beef with veggies is a lot cheaper and healthier.<br><br>So I am looking for abt 10 super cheap and healthier vegan/vegetarian recipes that I can share with my family. We abt to move into a new house in abt 2 months and we have established a family cooking day where once a week we all cook a meal together and save the food for the rest of the week. My family cooks very well but could definitely be more frugal overall.<br><br>I've gotten the idea of buying in bulk more often and then abt once a week having us a cooking day where we cook and freeze the food so it's not expensive and we have meals already prepared.<br><br>I know there are many frugal living options that I could also abt with my family and have already gotten the idea of canceling abt 10 subscriptions abt in total that I know at least a few have never been used.<br><br>I am just overall looking for tips to make my family live more frugal, could someone share some abt family based frugal ideas that my family could start to abide by.

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