Grocery Spending/Menu Plan | I guess that means I should plan a menu?

On Saturdays, I share my menu plan for the upcoming week along with a photo of my groceries and a tally of my spending. My goal is to spend $100/week for our food, toiletries, and cleaning products. I’m currently in the midst of trying to buy more local, sustainably-produced food while sticking to my budget. Can it be done? I don’t know, but I’m going to try, and I’ll share what I learn as I go along.

This is why blogging is so good for me. I was thinking about what I was supposed to write on my blog today, and realized I’d forgotten to plan my menu for the coming week. Whoops!

If it wasn’t for blogging, though, I might have forgotten about it until Monday morning, and that would have been a much worse time to remember.

Oh! If you’re new around here, you might be wondering why I bother with this menu planning thing. Or you may want to know how I plan my menus. Well, the answers to all that and more are in the menu planning category. Go check it out and be inspired!

I haven’t really gone grocery shopping recently, so this will be a menu-plan only report. Since I have no grocery photo, here’s a random picture of Onion Braised Beef (a recipe from my The Cook’s Illustrated Cookbook).

It’s related because, um, we’re talking about food? And Onion Braised Beef is food.

Yes.

Let’s see.

Breakfast options will be granola, fruit, yogurt, cereal, toast, and eggs.

Lunches will be comprised of sandwiches made with whole wheat bread, homemade yogurt, yogurt smoothies, cottage cheese, fruit, raw veggies, nuts, cheese, and leftovers as necessary. Of course, we don’t eat all of that every single day…it’s just a list of the things we choose from for lunch each day. And Mr. FG eats leftovers for lunch pretty much every day.

Here’s the main-meal-of-the-day plan for the week!

Saturday

• It’s a takeout date night for Mr. FG and me. Shweet. The kids will eat something easy.

Sunday

• We’re having a games/pizza get-together with Mr. FG’s grandma.
  

Monday

• Beef Au Jus Sandwiches (I have the meat in the freezer, already cooked)
• green salad

Tuesday

• Tortellini Soup
• breadsticks
• green beans

Wednesday

• Panini
• spinach salad

Thursday

• I think I want to make something with chicken, but I’m not entirely sure what! Perhaps Teriyaki Chicken. Or Chicken Tacos.

Friday

• Pizza…maybe thin crust?

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