Ashley Willis describes how she shifted from strict home cooking when money was tight to budgeting for eating out after her first child was born. She found that meals with her mother and new friends in Georgia became essential for her mental health and building community.
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We budget for that. But we did eat in a lot because we just frankly didn't have money. Like, I remember making sandwiches during the day if. If, you know, I was still in school, but I. And so. But I wasn't on the meal plan anymore. So I would just come home and I would eat, you know, in between classes. And I remember too, when I had my first job, I would bring my lunch most of the time, I think once a week I would go out. But then where I really got in the habit of eating out, where I was like, I was like, sweetie, I need. This is when we had our first child. We had agreed to be a one and come home because we wanted, you know, we both had stay at home moms and we really highly value that, both of us, and we wanted me to be able to do that. And so we knew that we were having to cut some things. But I really, like, for my own mental health, needed to get out with a baby. I totally did that. And meeting with my mom when I was living, you know, in Kentucky, meeting with my mom and friends there was really important to me. And then once we moved to Georgia even that was how I made friends, was.