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We Spent $69.46 on Groceries This Week (and here’s what we ate)

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We Spent $69.46 on Groceries This Week (and here’s what we ate)

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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We got back from Kansas late, late Sunday night. Well, actually it was early Monday morning because our flights got delayed for a total of 9 hours.

Unlike the last 3 weeks where I was traveling each weekend, this week, we were home all week and didn’t travel this weekend — which was nice! After three weeks of back to back travel, it was nice to have a week at home where we ate dinner at home together and got to just hang out together in the evenings!

Kroger Trip #1:

6 Kroger Moose Tracks yogurt — marked down to $0.29 each
1 JetPuffed Marshmallows — $1.25, use $1/1 Kroger Digital Coupon = $0.25 after coupons
2 Kroger canned Pumpkin — $0.99 each
1 King Arthur Flour — $4.19
6 packages of Turkey Breast — on closeout for $2 each
4 packages of Goldfish crackers — $0.99 each when you purchase 5 participating items
1 VeggieChips — $0.99 each when you purchase 5 participating items
2 Suave Kids Shampoo — $0.99 each when you purchase 5 participating items, used $1/2 Kroger Digital Coupon = $0.49 each after coupon
1 Suave Kids Body Wash — $0.99 each when you purchase 5 participating items, used $0.50/1 Kroger Digital Coupon = $0.49 after coupon
4 Suave Professionals Shampoo — $1.99 each when you purchase 5 participating items, used 2 $3/2 Kroger Digital coupon = $0.49 each after coupon
Colgate Toothpaste — $1.99 each when you purchase 5 participating items, used $2/1 Kroger Digital coupon = free after coupon
2 Speedstick deodorant — $0.99 each when you purchase 5 participating items
Half & Half — $1.99
2 cantaloupe — marked down to $0.99 each
2 bags of apples — marked down to $0.99 per bag
1 bag of plums — marked down to $0.99 per bag
1 bag of avocados — marked down to $0.99 per bag
3 grapefruit — marked down to $0.99 total
Used $10/$40 coupon (that Kroger sent me in the mail)
Total with tax: $36.44

Kroger Shopping Trip #2:

Dole Chopped Salad — marked down to $1.89
2 loaves of bread — marked down to $1.79 each
Chorizo — used Free Friday coupon
5 packages of Oscar Mayer Beef Dogs — $1.99 each with Friday and Saturday Digital Coupon deal
5 Red Baron Pizzas — $1.99 each with Friday and Saturday Digital Coupon deal
Wasabi Sauce — on closeout for $1.24
Surimi — marked down to $1.99
1 bag of apples — marked down to $0.99
1 bag of Anjou Pears — $1.99, used $0.50/1 Kroger Digital coupon = $1.49
Total with tax: $33.02

A friend of mine — who is a sourdough expert — gave me some sourdough starter and I’m having fun learning how to feed it an use it.

I was happy with how the sourdough pancakes turned out, but the sourdough bread didn’t quite turn out how I had envisioned it — though it wasn’t terrible. I’m excited to keep experimenting!

I was excited to earn extra points from Fetch Rewards this week for buying Oscar Mayer, Suave, and Pepperidge Farm. Have you signed up for Fetch Rewards yet? If not, I highly recommend it. It’s such an easy way to earn cashback every week just for scanning your grocery receipts! Read more on how to sign up here.

What I Spent This Week

Total spent: $69.46

Cashback Earned This Week: 258 points + 149 points from Fetch Rewards for scanning my receipts + $0.10 for scanning my receipt on iBotta

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. 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. 🙂

What We Ate This Week

Breakfasts:

Cereal, Oatmeal, Scrambled Eggs, Baked Oatmeal (from the freezer), Yogurt, English Muffins (from the freezer)

Lunches:

Hard Boiled Eggs, Best Bran Muffins, Avocados, Salad, Grapefruit, Apples, Sourdough Bread (for Jesse and me)
Turkey Sandwiches, Fruit, Veggies, Yogurt, Cookies, Hard Boiled Eggs (For the kids — They are in charge of their own lunches.)

Snacks:

Best Bran Muffins, Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars, Sourdough Bread, Yogurt, Fruit/Veggies, Goldfish, VeggieChips, Cookies, Hard Boiled Eggs, Turmeric Milk

Dinners:

Saturday: Dinner with Jesse’s family (we were in KS for my sister’s wedding)
Sunday: Dinner at the airport (our flight was delayed by 9 hours, so we ended up having to buy food at the airport)
Monday: Turkey Meatballs from the freezer, mashed potatoes, fruit
Tuesday: Sourdough Pancakes, eggs, fruit, yogurt
Wednesday: Turkey, Rice, Cantaloupe
Thursday: Sausage/Peppers/Onions in the Crockpot, cantaloupe, homemade Sourdough Bread
Friday: Dinner Out