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This Week’s $31 Grocery Shopping Trips + What We Ate This Past Week

I'm currently challenging myself to stick with a $70 grocery 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 left on Thursday morning for a much-anticipated beach trip with two of my closest friends. So I didn’t do as much grocery shopping this week, as a result. We were pretty stocked up on food from the extras I had bought the past month and stuck in the pantry and freezer, so I didn’t need to buy much.

And I’ll just roll over the money I didn’t spend this week to next week’s grocery budget.

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 in these shopping trips that I used to make all of the meals we ate. And it also means we didn't use all of these groceries up this week — because some of them will be saved for later weeks!
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. 🙂

Kroger Shopping Trip #1:

5 boxes of Quaker Oatmeal Packets — $0.99 each when you purchase 5 boxes

Total with tax: $5.31

Kroger Shopping Trip #2:

Organic Lettuce — marked down to $1.79
Buns — marked down to $0.59
Artisan Bread — marked down to $1.49
2 Fage Yogurt — marked down to $0.49 each
4 yogurts — marked down to $0.39 each
1 bag of avocados — marked down to $0.99
Raw sugar — $2.89
Bananas — marked down to $0.39/lb. = $1.86 total
Flour — $1.39
4 cottage cheese — marked down to $0.69
Milk — $2.69
2 Oreo yogurts — $0.99 each when you buy 5 participating items
2 Danimals — $0.99 each when you buy 5 participating items
Simply Lemonade — $0.99 each when you buy 5 participating items
Total with tax: $25.46

What We Ate This Week

Breakfasts:

Cereal, Oatmeal, Toast/Eggs, Turmeric Milk, Banana Bread with Peanut Butter (Everyone is on their own for breakfast!)

Lunches:

Hard Boiled Eggs, Avocados, Salad, Cottage Cheese, Lasagna Casserole, Turkey Burgers, Apples, Pancakes (Jesse & Me)
Turkey Sandwiches, Fruit, Veggies, Banana Bread, Granola Bars, Yogurt, Cookies, Capri Sun (For the kids — They are in charge of their own lunches.)

Snacks:

Banana Bread, Yogurt, Cottage Cheese, Fruit/Veggies, Cookies, Hard Boiled Eggs

Dinners:

Sunday: Leftovers/Fend For Yourself
Monday: Lasagna Casserole, Peas, Grapes
Tuesday: Turkey Burgers & Spaghetti (Fend For Yourself Night again since everyone had different things going on)
Wednesday: Lasagna Casserole, Pumpkin Doughnut Muffins
Thursday: French Toast
Friday: Dinner Out