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Last week I tried to buy our groceries using a fourth of the amount that we would receive for a month, but I went over that amount – so that left us with $174.26. So, again I decided that I would take the remaining amount and divide by three since there are 3 weeks left in the month. This week’s budget was $58.09. We still had some food leftover from last week: butter, apples, some cheese, butter, eggs, burritos, pancakes and beans and rice. Also this week Stella will be getting school lunch so that was 5 lunches I did not have to include in the grocery shopping.
Forgot these when I took the first photo!
This week’s purchases:
organic, whole milk yogurt (5) $5.95
Organic, lowfat (all they had)large yogurt (for smoothies) $3.89
Organic broccoli $3.89
Organic spinach $3.59
Eggs $4.09
Raw, whole milk cheddar cheese $3.29
Carrots (1 pound) $0.79
Local ground pork sausage $7.19
Wraps $1.99
Blueberries (3 cups) $3.22
Peaches $2.69
Bananas $.089
Clementines
Onion $0.64
Fish (flounder) $5.99
Tax $2.73
The grand total $54.32 ($3.77 under budget!)
I was also given some pumpkin from a friend that was going out of town and was cleaning out their refrigerator along with some more ravioli splits! Stella is very excited that we have 4 choices for dinner this week! One choice is her favorite fish dish!
I spent Sunday making bread, soup and a batch of burritos using the ground sausage and the leftover beans and rice from left over from last week. I was really surprised that the beans and rice that I made last week was enough for 9 burritos and 2 lunches!
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Impressive work you are doing on this. Thank you. Great learnings but glad to see that with knowledge and planning you are able to make some nutritous, inexpensive meals!!
I think if you are on SNAP, you don’t have to pay sales tax. If so that will give you a few more dollars to spend.