Grocery Spending/Menu Plan | It’s been a while.

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.

Due to one thing or another, I haven’t done one of these posts in a bit!

I visited Weis and Aldi this week. I felt uninspired when I came home, so I snapped a picture of my groceries still in the bags.

But then I thought that a picture of soda, Doritos, milk, and white flour would make you guys worried for our health, so I took this picture too.

There really was some not-bad-for-us food in those bags.

I also plan to stop by a local orchard for a half bushel of peaches this week, and I’ll get some more produce from my parents’ garden as well.

The soda and Doritos were for Joshua’s birthday dinner, a meal chosen by him and almost entirely bereft of any nutritional value (Deep Dish Pizza, Doritos, Jello, and soda, with cake and ice cream for dessert).

Birthdays come but once a year, I say, and there are other nights to eat salad.

I spent $70.61 at Weis and I would tell you how much I spent at Aldi, but my receipt seems to have sprouted wings and flown away. I know it was around $60, though, so I’ve got some wiggle room for buying peaches.

Breakfasts this week are nothing unusual…the options are toast, yogurt, fruit, granola, cereal, 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 what we’re eating for dinner this week.

Saturday

• Since we had Joshua’s birthday dinner last night, we’re having our takeout date night tonight

Sunday

• We’re celebrating Mr. FG’s grandma’s 90th birthday, and I think all I have to bring is a dessert.

Monday

• Shrimp Burgers
• Spinach Salad

Tuesday

• Ranch Cheddar Chicken (a new recipe)
• fruit salad
• probably some kind of bread…haven’t decided yet

Wednesday

• Beef au Jus Sandwiches
• green beans

Thursday

• Grilled Chicken Sandwiches
• whatever produce needs using by then

Friday

• Takeout date night for Mr. FG and me, something easy for the kids

I hope you have a lovely Saturday.

If I carve out some time today amidst birthday weekend festivities (Joshua’s friend Thomas is still here and we have several birthday activities planned), I want to write a special post for tomorrow, so do stop back in. Hopefully there will be something here! 🙂

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Today’s 365 post: It was a Boston Cream Pie

Joshua’s 365 post: Joshua doesn’t have one up for today yet, but you probably haven’t seen his post from yesterday yet.