Want to see what we bought for this week’s $70 grocery budget? I’m currently challenging myself to stick with a $70 budget for our family of five. This includes almost all of our breakfasts, lunches, snacks, and dinners + most household products (toiletries, laundry soap, etc.).
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Did you see that the Eat at Home Menu Plan service is on sale for just $1.13/week for the next few days? I love this menu plan service and think it is so fantastic if you need quick and easy menu plans that are family friendly and affordable.
You get access to 4 different menu plans (No Sugar/No Flour, Instant Pot/Slow Cooker, Traditional, and Traditional Wholesome) AND you get a color-coded grocery list for each menu plan every single week!
If you want to get some ideas of how this menu plan works and what the recipes are like, I’ve been making the recipes this week on live video. Here are three of them that I made:
Kroger Shopping Trip #1
- Ground Beef — marked down to $4.29
- 2 bags of apples — marked down to $0.99
- 1 bag of onions — marked down to $0.99
- Santa Cruz lemonade — $0.99 when you buy 5 participating items
- 2 Nourish bowls — marked down to $1 each
- 1 carton of Siggi’s — marked down to $0.99
- Milk — $2.69
- 3 boxes of Cheerios — $1.49 each when you buy 5 participating items, used $1.50/3 coupon = $0.99 each
- Corn Chips — $0.99 when you buy 5 participating items, used $0.45/1 coupon that Kroger emailed me = $0.54
- Diced tomatoes — $0.50
- Teriyaki sauce — $2.29
- Total with tax: $19.57
My Toilet Paper Order
I ordered the toilet paper deal and it came in this week. I paid just $19.49 for the equivalent of 128 regular rolls! We should be stocked up for awhile!
By the way, this deal is still available! Check out all of the details here.
I was excited about the Friday-Saturday deals at Kroger — including a stock-up price on butter ($1.99 per pound!) I bought 5 and stuck them in the freezer!
Kroger Shopping Trip #2:
What We Ate This Past Week
Note: When you see the meals below, please remember this: I buy ahead often. Which means that when I find a great deal on something I know we’ll use, I buy as much as I can afford in our budget to have on hand.
This means that you aren’t going to see all of the groceries my shopping trip that I used to make all of the meals we ate.
Please also remember that I’m putting this out there and it’s not a perfectly balanced menu. This is just really what we ate — and I hope that it encourages you to see the real-ness and lack of perfection here.
Breakfasts:
Lunches:
- Ham Sandwiches, Granola Bars, Yogurt, Capri Sun, Salad, Leftovers, Fruit
Snacks:
Dinners:
Total spent on groceries: $67.04
Cashback earned this week: 50 points for submitting my receipts to Fetch rewards
