Menu Planning #160

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: $400.00

What did we spend?

Week 1- $91.45

Kroger: $91.45

Rebates

IBOTTA: $0.35

Week 2- $108.74

Kroger:$108.74

Week 3:$133.66

Week 4-

Total: $333.85

77Rebate Total: $.35

Final Total: $333.50

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: Plan for two weeks and try to get the majority of your shopping completed in the first week. Save as much money as you can and then apply the money to picking up sale items. This way you will grow your rock bottom pantry.

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

NOTE- If you want to see the recipes, just click on the link.

Breakfast Options:

https://sweetlifeonabudget.blogspot.com/2018/11/making-yogurt-101.html

Yogurt

Cereals

Boiled Eggs

Monday

Chicken and Rice

Green Beans

Tuesday

Tacos

Salad

Chips w/ Salsa

Wednesday

Pasta

Salad

Thursday

https://sweetlifeonabudget.blogspot.com/2019/05/pizza-277-per-pie.html

Pizza

Salad

Friday (Swim Meet)

Sandwiches

Vegetable Sticks

Salad

Saturday

Chili

Sunday

Coconut Shrimp

Broccoli and Cauliflower

Salad

This week’s rough plan:

M- Cajun Sausage and Rice Skillet

T- Pasta

W- Leftovers or Tacos

Th- Gumbo

Fri- Lasagna

Sat- Leftovers

Sun- Soup/Salad

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

What is your family having this week for dinner?

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