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Grocery Spending and Menu Plan

Two pictures again this week!

$12.45 at Weis…
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And $44.77 at Aldi.
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That adds up to $57.22, which is almost exactly what I spent last week(that was $57.95). So, I’m a little more than $20 under budget again. 🙂

Saturday

  • Beef au Jus sandwiches and Tortellini Soup(frozen from previous meals)
  • green salad

Sunday(we’re having a friend from church over, so we’re not having breakfast for dinner!)

  • Swiss Mushroom Chicken
  • Spinach Salad
  • some kind of bread…haven’t decided what yet!
  • some sort of cookie for dessert…have decided that yet either.

Monday

  • Roast Chicken with Stuffing
  • steamed broccoli
  • rolls

Tuesday

  • Beef Burgundy over noodles
  • Baby Carrots with horseradish

Wednesday

  • Chicken and Gravy on Toast(using leftovers from Monday)
  • Fruit salad

Thursday

  • Grilled Jerk Chicken pieces
  • Grilled vegetables(mushrooms, onions, red peppers)
  • braided bread

Friday

  • We’ll be at my parents for an early Easter dinner. Um, I’m bringing some kind of bread.

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Becky

Monday 30th of March 2009

One option for cutting back on paper product costs (and waste) is to purchase a set of cloth napkins for your household. If each "place" at the table has a cloth napkin set for each meal, you will save tons of money on paper napkins (and help the environment too). When the napkins get dirty, just throw them in the wash with the other clothes, and hang them to dry. Etsy seller "Kitchen Quilts" makes high quality cloth napkins, but you can obviously pick them up more cheaply at your thrift store (or make your own!).

Susan

Sunday 29th of March 2009

I am so glad you are answerig Dana's question! I was wondering the same thing. It's almost another budget I need to make for paper products and cleaning items.

Kristen

Sunday 29th of March 2009

Dana-your question is in the queue for tomorrow's Q&A. :D

Plan to Eat

Saturday 28th of March 2009

I have been working on a meal planning website for my wife over the past 6 months with the goal of taking a lot of the repetition out of meal planning. It basically allows you to create your own family menu of recipes, easily add them to a weekly plan and then it automatically creates a shopping list based on that plan, categorized by grocery categories. You can also share your recipes with friends, and save you weekly plans. I am adding new stuff every week, so please let us know what you think, and what we could add to make meal planning that much easier.

Stephanie

Saturday 28th of March 2009

In additon to the above if I run out of lunches for the ones in college I will send them with a coupon from a restraunt. Example recently my daughter used her free sub at subway for her lunch. As I was out of anything to pack. I buy only enough lunch meat to make sandwiches for two days after that they start on leftovers. Then when the leftovers get used up they get creative. One thing one likes is cheese , crackers and an apple. Almost no packing invovled and they like what they have to eat. If they are home choices get easier. Tuna travels sometimes.

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