Re: getting kids involved with the food budget..
Involve your kids in the shopping and budgeting. My little one (almost 3) is learning about money. Not from my money but from his. We give him 50 cents a week (right now all in dimes) and help him budget it, 10 cents for tithe, 10 cents to his savings account, 30 cents for spending. He has to save for a month to go to the dollar store. The bank account is for bigger things, right now he wants to go to build a bear with it someday. At this rate he'll be 10 before he makes it but his allowance will increase as he gets older and he will change his mind which is part of the lesson I want to get into him (wait and see if you still want it!) Of course if he isn't a "good" boy his allowance doesn't happen that week. Right now his chore is to "set" the table and to be a helpful little one. He does very well at that so far. His chores will increase as he gets older too.
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