Grocery Spending/Menu Plan | I'm on budget!
I spent $46.22 at Aldi this week and $27.31 at Weis.
I also spent $7 at the produce stand for these groceries:
And that all adds up to $80.53. I've got $82.50 to work with each week this month because of my wheat purchase, so I'm right on target! Color me happy.
For breakfast, we'll be eating homemade granola, homemade yogurt,, fruit, scrambled eggs, and cereal.
Lunches will be leftovers, yogurt smoothies, fruit, sandwiches, and some raw veggies.
Dinners will be as follows:
Saturday (my brother and his wife are visiting for dinner, which is why we're having two different types of pizza. I only have one oven, so by using the grill and the oven, I can produce enough pizza at one time to feed us all!)
- Grilled Pizza
- Thin-Crust Pizza
- a salad that my sister-in-law is bringing!
Sunday
- I'm not sure yet...we may be having some friends over, in which case we'll grill out. If it ends up being just the 6 of us, we'll probably do our usual breakfast for dinner thing.
Monday
- We're probably going to have an at-home date night...we'll feed the kids spaghetti and then eat sushi on the deck by ourselves after sending them to bed (or for the older two, sending them to Joshua's room to hang out with each other)
Tuesday
- Fish (I have some tilapia and some salmon, and I'll likely cook them two different ways)
- Cheese bread
- green salad
Wednesday
- Quesadillas-some chicken and some seafood, to use up some food from the fridge and freezer
- fruit salad
- Zucchini Patties
Thursday
- Mandarin Chicken Salad (like the one Wendy's makes)
- English Muffins
Friday
- Club Sandwiches
- raw veggies
- watermelon
I get jealous every time I see how much you can get for your money, I need to start growing more of my own stuff as here it is so rediculously expensive buying fruit and vegies, well pretty much everything is very expensive at our IGA
sounds yummy. and nice job on keeping w/in budget. feels good, doesn't it?
What are zucchini patties? They sound like a yummy vegetarian dish. Also, your Saturday posts are my favorite meal plan ones - I love seeing Aldi groceries (because they're just like mine!) and stuffed animals in the pictures.
@Molly,
I believe she posted a recipe for zuchinni patties at one point. They looked delicious! Try searching her site for the recipe.
What do you do with the wheat germ? I get it every now and then but I just like to eat it by the spoonful. lol
I love the way you creatively find ways to spend time alone with your husband and have "dates" like sushi on the deck after putting the kids in bed, and telling the two older kids to play with other. I don't understand why so many parents seem to think it's wrong to do that, like the kids need their 24/7 attention. By the time they're a little older, their siblings can be great companions. I actually know people who kind of give up on their relationship for the entire time their kids are growing up. It makes me wonder about how much they value their marriage. I could never do that, my marriage is the most important thing in the world to me.
I think you really are a great model of how to have a family while also taking good care of your marriage.
i'm new to your blog, but it looks great. at my farmer's market, there are sometimes options for "cosmetically challenged" fruits and veggies at reduced cost. i picked up a bunch of organic stone fruit today for $2/lb instead of $3.50. might be worth keeping an eye out, especially since you mentioned trying to eat more local stuff. u-picks are great, too.
Wow! Those are some very green bananas. I guess they'll be hanging out on the counter for a few days. 😉
Have you considered a CSA? Our CSA costs us $20 per week and we get more veggies than we can finish off. So far I've given away a bag of lettuce per week to my folks (who pay me back in baked goods, yum!)