Convenience foods can be a real budget-buster, but there can also be a time and a place for them. Striking the right balance involves knowing your savings goals and honoring flexibility when life happens.
It’s difficult, if not impossible, to draw a hard-and-fast line on when to spend a little extra for convenience foods and when to avoid prepared or prepackaged items all together. Individual financial realities are often in flux, or at least have the potential to be. Life is a series of seasons, and just as there is a time to laugh and a time to cry, there is also a time to spend and a time to save.
