Menu Planning #157

Our meals need to be nutritious, clean, flexible, quick and cost effective.

Between our work schedules and after school activities, we need to carefully

plan our meals so that we do not end up ordering out. We try hard to keep our

total food and household products to under $100.00 per week.

Goal: $500.00

What did we spend?

Week 1- $127.50

Kroger: $44.77

Aldi: $82.73

Rebates

IBOTTA:

Week 2- $53.15

Kroger: $19.82

Meijer: $33.33

Rebates:

IBOTTA:

Week 3-186.92

Kroger: $166.42

Meijer: $20.50

Rebates:

IBOTTA:$4.70

Week 4- $12.78

Kroger: $12.78

CVS:

Rebates:

IBOTTA: $2.60

Week 5 $121.39

Kroger: $61.43

Aldi: $56.50

CVS: $3.46

Total: $501.74

Rebate Total: $7.30

Final Total: $494.44

NOTE: Rebate total DOESN’T include Kroger Cash or Refunds because they

will come off of the Kroger Bill automatically the following week. In addition, I

don’t count CVS as part of the grocery bill because I normally use gift cards and

ECB to get my items for free, so in the end the money is usually to my benefit.

Grocery Shopping Tips: Go shopping the Friday after Thanksgiving and you

will find several items marked down. I found Pineapples, Avocadoes, and other

perishables marked down.

Let’s take a look at what we ate this week.

Breakfast Options:

Yogurt

Cereal

Pancakes

Monday

Kielbasa

Buttered Noodles

Green Beans

Tuesday

* Dragon Noodles

With Shrimp and Broccoli

Wednesday

Pizza

Salad

Thursday

Roasted Turkey

Roasted Potatoes

Broccoli

Cranberry Chutney

Pumpkin Roll

Friday

Pizza

Salad

Mushrooms

Saturday

Jambalaya

Salad

Bread

Sunday

Turkey Noodle Soup

Grilled Cheese Sandwiches

This week’s rough plan:

M- Chicken Fried Rice

T- Enchiladas

W- Pasta

TH- Sandwiches

Fri- Pizza

Sat- Hamburgers

Sun- *Cajun Sausage and Rice Skillet

* Indicate that the recipe is a new one for our family.

What is your family having this week for dinner?

Comments

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