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Last Week’s $70 Grocery Budget + Menu Plan

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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I’ve been finding a LOT of random markdowns at Kroger recently, so my shopping trips this week were mostly made up of those!

Kroger Shopping Trip #1

Kroger Eggs — marked down to $1.29
Cinnamon Raisin Bread — marked down to $1.29
2 cans of canned Pineapple — marked down to $0.49 each
JIF peanut butter — marked down to $0.99 each
Kettle cooked chips — marked down to $0.79
Kroger sour cream — $1.39
Deli chicken — marked down to $2.39
Elbow macaroni — marked down to $0.39
1 bag of peppers/squash — marked down to $0.99
Kroger peanuts — marked down to $0.89
Sirloin Steak — marked down to $4.40
1 bag of cucumbers — marked down to $0.99
Strawberries — $1.50
2 cans of Kroger soup — $0.79 each
1 bag of lemons — marked down to $0.99
Bananas — marked down to $0.39/lb. = $0.71
Tyson Frozen Chicken — $6.99
2 cans of salmon — marked down to $1.99 each
Package of Kind Breakfast Bars — marked down to $0.99
2 cans of green beans — marked down to $0.29 each
Simple Truth organic seltzer water — marked down to $0.99 each
2 boxes of Rice-a-Roni — marked down to $0.49 each
Kroger taco seasoning — marked down to $0.19
Total with tax: $41.96

I was excited about the Weekend Deals at Kroger this week and am going back to hit some of the others on Monday!

Kroger Shopping Trip #2

Salad Kit — $1.99
Nature Valley Granola Bar — marked down to $0.69
Kroger eggs — marked down to $1.29
Annie’s Mac & Cheese — marked down to $0.59 each
Capri Sun — marked down to $0.69
JIF Peanut Butter — marked down to $0.89
3 packages of Smithfield Bacon — $2.99 each with Weekend Deals
Kind bar — Free with Free Friday coupon
Creamed Corn — $0.99
Kroger Green Beans — $0.59
5 Lara Bars — $0.50 each with Weekend Deals
Franks Red Hot Sauce — Well, I thought this was supposed to be $0.99 with the Kroger Weekend Deals but as I was typing this up, I realized that I think I actually paid $2.99 for this!! Now I’m trying to decide whether it’s worth taking back to the store. Probably not? But I kind of surprised that I didn’t catch that I overpaid for this. 🙁 I usually am really good at carefully checking everything. Here’s another good reason why you should check your receipt really thoroughly before leaving the store!
Lettuce — $1.79
Total with tax: $26.18

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: