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We Spent $68.87 on Groceries This Past Week (Kroger, Aldi, Big Lots)

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 seven. This includes almost all of our breakfasts, lunches, snacks, and dinners + most household products (toiletries, laundry soap, etc.).

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I’m loving getting back into the swing of bargain shopping again! This week, I went to Kroger twice plus Aldi and Big Lots. Here’s what I got…

Kroger Shopping Trip #1:

Salad Greens — marked down to $1.79
Greek Salad Kit — marked down to $1.69
2 jars peanut butter — $1.50 each
Peppers — marked down to $0.99
Grapes — $1.52
Total with tax: $9.53

I went to another Kroger later in the week and found crazy egg markdowns!

Kroger Shopping Trip #2:

5 boxes Kellogg’s cereal — $1.69 each when you buy 6 or more participating items + get $0.75 back from iBotta = $0.94 each after iBotta rebate
Godiva Pudding — marked down to $0.79
2 Yoplait Yogurt 8-packs — marked down to $2.19 each
5 blocks/bags cheese — $1.49 each when you buy 6 or more participating items
2 Nourish bowls — marked down to $0.99 each
3 cans Pringles — $0.99 each when you buy 6 or more participating items
Capri-Sun — $1.79 when you buy 6 or more participating items
Dole Spinach — marked down to $0.79
2 30-count eggs — marked down to $0.69 each
Kroger brown eggs — $0.99
3 bags avocados — marked down to $0.99 each
2 bags nectarines — marked down to $0.99 each
Milk — $2.59
Kroger cookies — $1.29, used $1/1 digital coupon = $0.29
3 2-lb packs of strawberries — $1.88 each
Total with tax: $47.22

BigLots Shopping Trip:

2 loaves bread — $1.40 each
1 pack hot dog buns
Total with tax: $4.48

ALDI Shopping Trip:

Oats — $2.39
3-lb bag of Fuji Apples — $2.99
Tortilla Chips — $0.89
Bananas — $0.89
Total with tax: $7.64

Total spent on groceries: $68.87

Our Menu Plan This 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.

Dinners:

Sunday — Sausage, Scrambled Eggs, Toast

Monday — Crockpot Rotisserie Chicken, Twice Baked Potatoes, Salad, Grapes

Tuesday — Chicken & Noodles, Oranges, Cheesy Garlic Bread

Wednesday — Sausage/Potatoes/Peppers in the Crockpot, Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins

Thursday — Breakfast Casserole, Roasted Potatoes, Grapes

Friday — Leftovers, Fruit Salad

Saturday — Peanut Butter & Honey Sandwiches, Strawberries, Pringles (we are taking a short little in-state road trip this weekend to visit my sister and her family who currently live in Johnson City so we’re eating this on the road!)