Category: Project Food Budget

This past Thursday, the official Project: Food Budget came to an end. I joined PFB kind of late in the game. The other participants were about halfway through the project by the time I came around. And, of course, now it’s ending… but that’s okay! Emily, the creator of the project, asked that in the… Continue reading Project: Food Budget – the end!

Slowly but surely, I’m getting back into the swing of things. I should technically be on Week 34…  Oh well! I have gone grocery shopping twice this month. For dinner, we had been using a lot of gift cards that had been so thoughtfully and generously given to us after Ezra’s birth. Those are just… Continue reading Project: Food Budget – Weeks 14 & 15

Budget: $70.00 Actual: $45.88  Once again, another super under budget week. But I can’t take credit for working magic with coupons or sales… the plain truth is we ate out so much over the week that I only made three of the seven meals I’d planned! So, that left four meals for this upcoming week… Continue reading Project: Food Budget – Week 12

Budget: $70.00 Actual: $86.64  Definitely over budget this week! We saved $17.38, though, so thank goodness for coupons and the Kroger plus card. Last week… meals didn’t really turn out as planned. At all. Who knew it was going to be so difficult to just muster up the motivation to stand for any period of time… Continue reading Project: Food Budget – Week 11

Budget: $70.00 Actual: $57.57 I  can’t believe we’re already at week 10 – wow! We really needed groceries this week. As you can see… our fridge is pretty much completely cleaned out. After being sick, all of the produce and most of the leftovers in the fridge went bad. Really bad. So we cleaned everything… Continue reading Project: Food Budget – Week 10