[Strangler Lewis]

Unless I make a big old pot of chicken soup, I tend to cook so we don't have leftovers. Where we have saved money, however, is with shopping twice a week instead of once and with more targeted meal planning.

This was a lesson from our summer in Switzerland. Our town had farmer's market three times a week within walking distance of our apartment, the butcher, the fish market, the cheese man and so on. Because everything was so frigging expensive, we tended to only buy what we absolutely needed for meals until the next market. Before that, we typically would shop for a week in an inattentive manner, stocking up on things that it might be nice to use in something, which, as often as not, would not get made.