Budget: $70.00
Actual: $53.40 

Wednesday (02/01) – Leftovers (Pasta with Peanut Sauce for me and chili from my sister-in-law for Alex)
Thursday (02/02) – Shepard’s Pie
Friday (02/03) – Easy Crock Pot Chicken
Saturday (02/04) – Out with family after our 3D/4D Ultrasound!
Sunday (02/05) – SUPERBOWL! We always have chili at my parent’s house for the Superbowl!
Monday (02/06) – Pan Roasted Chicken w/ Lemon-Garlic Green Beans & Red Potatoes
Tuesday (02/07) – Corn Bacon & Potato Chowder

Clearly, I was drastically under budget this week for our grocery spending!

I only used 4 coupons (one of them was a B1G1) and the rest of the savings came from Kroger Plus. We saved $11.35 this week.

I’m not really counting this week as a major victory over grocery spending, though. Looking at the meal plan… three of the seven nights there’s nothing to make at home – it’s leftovers or we’re going out. I guess I just don’t want to get myself too excited because next week will probably look totally different but who knows.

Breakfast and lunch are the same as usual for us, though I have gone out twice this week. I can’t believe Alex hasn’t grown tired of the burgers and breakfast burritos! It’s a miracle!

Also, since I’m tracking my coffeehouse spending, you’ll remember from last week that I only had $10.98 of my $15.00 budget to spend from Tuesday, the 24th until the 31st. I am so happy to report that I only spent $12.23 total! This was four total drinks, two from Starbucks and two from Reality Tuesday. This week I have already spent $4.02 again so let’s see if I can cut out at least one drink. It’s seriously an addiction, people.

So that’s that! I’m planning on writing a review of the recipes I tried in January because I didn’t actually get to all of them and most of them I changed a lot.

Participating Blogs in Project: Food Budget – 

• Emily Levenson
• Dairy-Free Cooking
• Test Kitchen Tuesday
• Red Pen Mama
• Acquired Tastes
• Fit Flexitarian
• Warm As Pie 
• Katy Rank Lev
• My Inner Healthy
• Little Blue Hen
• xox, b
• What da Health?
• Project Food Budget 2.0
• Fresh…A New Chapter
• Chandeleah
• Two Eggs Over Easy
• That’s Just Me
• Eat Whole Be Vital
• Four Happy Violets
• Naturally {Un}refined
• Pgh Dad
• yogabeautylife
• Charmingly Modern
• naMAMAste
• Six Dollars a Day
• The Gluten-Free Vegan

*If you want to see my other Project: Food Budget posts, click here! Or to find out where Project: Food Budget came from, click here!*