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WHAT I SPENT AND WHAT WE ATE
I have been looking at my overflowing freezers and very full pantry over the holiday week and
wondering why am I still going grocery shopping?   I am planning on making January my
Pantry/Freezer Challenge month.


This is what I’m doing……
First I am taking an inventory of both my freezer and pantry to see exactly what I have.  Then I will
be menu planning around what I have and only purchasing what we need which will focus on
perishable items such as fruit, vegetable and milk which should be about $35.00 a week.  I am low
on a few key life items (AKA Coffee, cat food, cat litter, etc.), so I did keep an extra $10.00 in the
budget for rock bottom prices on these items. This makes for a total budget of $190.00.  
WHAT I SPENT
January Spending
Week 1= 38.48
Kroger = $38.48


Week 2= $45.94
CVS= $1.90
Walgreen= 0
Kroger= 38.48, 2.32
Meijer= 3.24
WHAT WE ATE (January 6-12, 2019)
Sunday- Local Swim Meet
I prepared pasta, salad and bread sticks in the morning before going to the meet, so when we got
home it was a quick reheat and dinner was on the table.  
Monday- COSI School Program Volunteer, Doctor Appointment and Cub Scouts
We needed an easy night, sandwiches (leftovers from the school)  and vegetable sticks.



Tuesday - COSI School Program Volunteer, Swim
Taco Tuesday with salad and chips w/ salsa

Wednesday- School Library Volunteer, Swim
Leftover Pasta w/ Chicken
Salad
Thursday- Swim
Quesadillas, Salad, Carrot Sticks

Friday-
Pizza, Salad, Vegetable Sticks



Saturday- Unfortunately we had a swim meet on my husband’s birthday, so we needed to move his
celebration to this weekend.  I had put a little money aside last week, so we could get his favorite
dinner item, Crab. We were really lucky because it was on sale this week for $2.00 off per pound.
Tonight we are celebrating my husband’s birthday. Which means, he gets to pick dinner.


Steak
Crab
Roasted Potatoes
Salad
Green Beans
Ice Cream

So the moral of this week is that you save on some dinners, so you can afford special/more expensive dinners once in a while.  

What did you have for dinner this week?
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