FFK85: How to save money on food and make meal planning less stressful, with Jo from This Mum Cooks

Today's show is a real treat for anyone who finds that day-to-day bind of working out what to cook for tea tonight stressful, or for anyone who's finding shopping for food increasingly hard on a budget with everything that's going on in the world right now and the effect on prices.

The show is lucky enough to have an interview with Jo from This Mum Cooks who is a super helpful food creator who shares practical ideas with her hundreds of thousands of followers online. She was kind enough to come and share some of her biggest mindset and planning tips for how to make meal planning less stressful as well as save on money and food waste. We talk about taking the overwhelm out of thinking what to cook, using reduced items strategically to reduce planning time and stop stress in the supermarket, and resetting your expectations about what you are "supposed to" provide to be more realistic and friendly to your time, energy and budget and better for your own family.

Jo is a single mum of three teenagers, living in the northwest of England. Over the last four years her food work has completely changed her career, she now has 3 blossoming social media platforms and is known simply online as ‘Thismumcooks'. Jo shares money and food saving tips to try and help people eat as healthy as possible within the means available to them. She creates weekly meal plans, shares tips on how you can make your food stretch further and ensure that no food goes to waste. Simply, Jo hates money and food waste.

Links in this episode:

Jo's Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thismumcooks

Jo's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thismumcooks

Music "Happy Days" by Simon Folwar via Uppbeat