Category: Project Food Budget

Week 8 Budget – $70.00 Actual – $36.50 Week 9 Budget – $70.00 Actual – $73.49 So, week 8 our spending was drastically down because I was sick most of the week. The day I would normally have gone grocery shopping, I started getting a fever. By the time Wednesday rolled around, I was completely… Continue reading Project: Food Budget – Weeks 8 & 9

Budget – $70.00 Actual – $86.26 I was $16.26 over budget this week. Our savings was $15.46, which is good at least. The reason we went over budget is we made a random grocery trip on Sunday. I had to get meat for Alex’s breakfast burritos; I had to buy yogurt because the yogurt I’d… Continue reading Project: Food Budget – Week 7 (plus February spending recap!)

Budget: $70.00 Actual: $3.56 (meat market) and $61.50 (Kroger) – totaling $65.06 I’m pretty proud of our spending this week! I bought 2 pounds of chicken last Wednesday or Thursday at a local meat market and that was a savings of $6.82 over what we would have spent on 2 pounds of chicken from Kroger… Continue reading Project: Food Budget – Week 6

Budget: $70.00 Actual: $67.68 Our dinners this week: Wednesday (02/08) – Had dinner at Applebees with my family Thursday (02/09) – Pan Roasted Chicken with Lemon-Garlic Green Beans (it’s baking right now and smells great!) Friday (02/10) – New England Pot Roast Saturday (02/11) – Spinach Lasagna Rolls (this time I’m making it with lasagna instead of… Continue reading Project: Food Budget – Week 5

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… Continue reading Project: Food Budget – Week 4

Budget: $75.00 Actual: $73.90 We went grocery shopping on Tuesday which has been a habit we’ve fallen into the last several weeks so I think I’m just going to designate that as Grocery Shopping Day. And that means I will be shifting how I do the meal planning, so instead of meals running Sunday –… Continue reading Project: Food Budget – Week 3 (plus January spending recap!)