I need to be more careful with my meal spending money aka grocery budget. I know I’ve said this before, and obviously failed to keep up here, but I am going to try harder this time to be more diligent on sharing for my records and hopefully to help you with new ideas. I won’t say this is low budget cause I allow $70 for 7 meals each week. Thats $10 a meal or $5 per person per meal. Eating out also comes out of our grocery budget most of the time unless its a preplanned special occasion. Ive noted the on hand items and the preplanned dining out in this week’s plan.
These are pretty much in order by day, the only difference is lunches #2 and #3 may be swapped, depends on which we want to eat first. 😂
Lunches
- Copycat KFC Chicken bowls with grilled chicken (meal left over from last week’s shopping)
- Grilled cheese and ravioli
- Chicken nuggets and Mac n cheese
- Sandwich and chips
Supper
- Taco mayo (had a $20 gift card and spent an additional $15)
- Steak, grilled onions, baked tater, corn, cottage cheese, crescent rolls (already had the taters and onions)
- Boxed Pizzas
Thursday supper through Sunday supper we will be eating at work.
I spent about $67.43 of my grocery budget. I was over charged about $3 at the grocery store, which is a common thing. Shopping at our local grocery store stresses me out. The prices on thier website and products don’t always match the instore available products and shelf price and the shelf price doesn’t always match the price at checkout and I am pretty positive that different checkout lanes charge different prices on certain items. Its always a hassle to try and get an incorrect charged item corrected. I have started shopping Dollar General and Dollar Tree more but neither have fresh meats or produce. I plan to check our local Braums Fresh Market for meat and produce. It may mean spending a bit more but if it causes less stress for me it will be worth it.
