<human>: Hey /r/cooking the reason I posted this here instead of /r/personal finance is because I know what I need to do to reduce cost, the how is the hard part for me. 

I've started tracking my spending and noticed I spent $938 on food last month. Wow! That's crazy right? I even exported the transactions to excel because there wasn't a single transaction more than $25, but they all added up to that insane figure.

There are two things I know how to make well, steak and scrambled eggs. I made lasagna once and it tasted like lasagna so I guess that's good. But that's about it. I always find myself getting home and becoming hungry. So instead of spending an hour cooking a lasagna, I'll just order out and satisfy my hunger then and there. Or I'll cook a steak.

I tried grocery shopping before, but I'll usually end up with stuff that goes bad or never gets touched due to the lack of my cooking at home. So then I'll have half of the things I need for a recipe, give up, and order out. 

I'm not good at planning meals at all, I'll buy something to use later in the week and when the day comes I forget to thaw it. Well, time to order out again. And if I do remember to thaw something, it's usually a steak. 

**Does anyone have some dead simple grocery meal plan lists that would help me ease into this?** I've tried before and it always ends up not working out because I'll try to link all my meals together to prevent spoilage, or I'll have a meal with 10 ingredients that ends up costing as much as eating out.

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<bot>: I eat out too much and when I do try to cook at home, I end up having too much on my plate (pun intended) and choose the easier option.