Grocery Shopping and Menu Plan | Cash Only, Week 3
(I don't normally buy this many crackers, but they were on sale, I had coupons, and I also have a $10 rebate to send in. So, I bought extra now, which means I won't have to buy some in future weeks.)
This is my spending breakdown for the week:
Aldi-$39.21
Weis-$58.57
Local store-$19.44 (these purchases are not pictured and include a big chuck roast)
Total-$117.22
I have a little over $116 left in my envelope to cover this coming week's shopping trip, so that is awesome. I'd say the odds of me spending all of that are pretty low, especially since I have a big chuck roast in the freezer, a pound of crab meat (we will probably get two dinners out of that splurg-ey puchase), and plenty of cereal (Chex were on an awesome sale last week...I got 6 boxes for less than $6).
Breakfast this week will be yogurt, oatmeal, muffins, cold cereal, and maybe some granola if I manage to find the time to make it.
Lunches will be yogurt smoothies or yogurt, bread/sandwiches, fruit, and leftovers when necessary.
And dinners are as follows:
Saturday
- Thin Crust Pizza
- green salad
Sunday
- Pumpkin Apple Streusel Muffins
- Bacon
- Fried Mush
- Grapefruit halves
Monday
- Grilled Hamburgers
- another Fuddrucker's buns experiment
- potato chips
- grilled vegetables
Tuesday
- Calzones
- green salad
Wednesday
- Baked Potato Soup
- cheese bread
- whatever veggies need to be used by then
Thursday
- We'll be having our Thanksgiving meal with my family, and all I have to bring are basic dinner rolls. Easy peasy.
Friday
- Fish Sandwiches on homemade buns
- potato cubes
- spinach salad
That sale on Chex sounds awesome! We're going to Colonial Williamsburg for Thanksgiving, so I'm having to try and use up everything in my fridge. So far, we've had some pretty strange meals!
Your shopping reports are making me consider what I spend for my husband and me every week. Surely I can do better for just the two of us, especially when we like to eat vegetarian much of the time.
He think he will retire during the next year and while that won't cut us back to poverty level by any means, it will cut our monthly salary by about half. Now, while I have time to think about it and develop better spending practices, I am watching blogs like yours, Kristen, to learn from the younger generation "” a smart bunch. (Although I sometimes realize there are things I could teach you, too. Wink.) It goes both ways and the sharing is valuable.
Thanks for the spur to do better.
I should have said "He thinks." "” Rolling my eyes at myself.
I just found your blog and I love it. We are also spending only cash. I love that you're blogging your weekly spending and I love how you show what you've bought in pictures. I will be checking in here a lot. I love finding blogs that help motivate me!
Way too go with your cash-only grocery spending! That's actually something my husband and I just started doing this month, in an attempt to reign in our food/toiletries spending. We're giving ourselves $250 a month for food and toiletries. This month has definitely taught me a lesson, though - we only have $6 left for the rest of the month 🙂 I think I spent way too much at the beginning. Time to dig deep into my cupboards to see what I can come up with for meals from what we already have!
stacey go to walmart and pick up some cooking soup use the campbell's coupon get them for .38 each and that way you can put some cassaroles together. Potatoes are .26 each pick up a few of those and some of the .28 steaks add to that what you have in the cabinet your set!
I've been reading your blog for awhile and always enjoy it immensely. Thanks to you I've been taking a closer look at how I spend my food money and how much food I was wasting.
I'd love the recipe for the calzone and baked potato soup,those sound so good.
Also where did you get that turkey sausage links?
Frugal Liz - it's such a great place to visit, I hope you have a terrific time. We're going there too, the whole pile of my extended family. If you see three generations ending with about a half dozen kids, wave hi!
I love these weekly pictures of your groceries! So much so that I was kinda inspired to do the same today on my blog, with my Target purchases. You also inspired me to switch to unbleached flour, which I coincidentally included in my shopping trip today. I couldn't find any for 99 cents, or even $1.50, but it was on sale for $2.00 which is lower than I've seen it before. Anyway, thanks for the great tips and ideas you always share.
WilliamB,
If you see two old people, a young woman wearing a long, hippie dress and a colonial bonnet, and 3 little girls, wave hi to us!
I'm still amazed at all that food you get!!!
Your menu sounds great 🙂
Random, but I love that you used the phrase "easy peasy." That's a classic in my vocabulary but quite underused by too many people! Can't wait to hear how the Fuddrucker's experiment goes.
so I browse the list of meals and see this: another Fuddrucker's buns experiment
Ok. I was just emailing hubby this morning "what I wouldn't do for a fuddruckers burger today" ... you going to keep us posted on the results ... perhaps this will be a Wednsday baking item??? 🙂 Please? 🙂
Great shopping. I have a very strict budget myself of $60.00 a week to feed 5 people and diapers. I have been doing really well lately.