What I Spent and What We Ate- January 30

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 $155.00.

WHAT I SPENT

January Spending

Week 1

Krogers = $38.48

Week 2

CVS= $1.90

Walgreens= $0.00

Krogers= 38.48

Meijer= 3.24

Week 3

Kroger= $13.21 (Coffee Sale)

Meijers= $6.87

CVS= $0.00

Aldi= $22.34

Week 4 Total= $77.44

Kroger= $42.68

CVS=

Aldi= $34.76

This week’s grocery numbers are very high given our goal of $35.00 this week. However, let’s look

at the bigger picture. In my area chicken breast hit their stock up price of $1.49 lb. Wow this only

happens every 6-8 weeks. In addition, my son’s chicken nuggets also went on sale for $3.99 for a

2lb bag. Finally, my husband really wanted some beer this week and since our budget was self

imposed and we already saved a great deal of money this money, I didn’t see a good reason to not

provide it for him. We decided to add $40.00 to our budget for these items, but as you see, we still

went over by $7.44. The good news is that we cleaned out the refrigerator, pantry and freezer. In

addition, we decreased our kitchen waste and saved $198.04 when comparing our spending with

our usual grocery budget.

The numbers come in at $201.96 for this month. Our original budget was $155.00.

WHAT WE ATE (January 20-26, 2019)

Sunday- Swim Practice was cancelled because of the weather

Baked Ham

Buttered Noodles

Brussel Sprouts

Salad

Monday-

Pork Fried Rice

Salad

Tuesday - Swim

Pasta

Salad

Bread Sticks

Wednesday- Working, Swim

Ham and Cheese Sandwiches

Vegetable Sticks

Thursday- Working, Swim

Tacos

Salad

Friday-

Pizza

Salad

Vegetable Sticks

Saturday-

Grilled Shrimp

Rice

Green Beans

Salad

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