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This Week’s $70 Budget (+ our menu plan)

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 was $0.99 over-budget this week… however, since I’ve been under-budget the past few weeks, I’m good with it! 😉

This Week's $70 Grocery Budget

I went to two different Kroger stores on Tuesday morning while I was dropping the kids off at school.

Kroger Shopping Trip #1:

Chocolate Milk — marked down to $1.49
Carrots — $0.99
Breakfast Sausage Links — marked down to $1.79
3 packages of breakfast sausage — marked down to $1.79 each
Total with tax: $10.24

This Week's $70 Grocery Budget

Kroger Shopping Trip #2:

Kroger Half & Half — $1.79
3 boxes of Shrimp Potstickers — marked down to $1.49 each
2 packages of King’s Hawaiian Hot Dog Buns — marked down to $1.79 each
2 bars of Lindt chocolate — $0.99 each
1 box of Matzo Ball soup — marked down to $0.50 each
1 box of Stuffed Clams — marked down to $2.99
2 packages of salmon — marked down to $1.99 each
Hunt’s Tomato Sauce — marked down to $0.25
Hormel Chili — marked down to $0.49
Mint — marked down to $0.25
Simple Truth Eggs — $2.99
Diced Ham — $1.59
Dove PB Eggs — $0.09
2 packages of Bran Muffin Mix — marked down to $0.25 each
2 Salad Kits — marked down to $1.99 each
1 bag of apples — marked down to $0.99
2 boxes of Kroger cereal — $1.49 each
Kroger baking mix — marked down to $0.79
Barlean’s Forti-Flax — marked down to $1.50
Lemon juice — $2.49
Milk — $2.69
Total with tax: $43.59

This Week's $70 Grocery Budget

I was excited to get this printout offer to take a survey and get $5 off my next shopping order. I wrote more about it here.

grocery shopping trip

We invited friends over for dinner on Saturday, so Jesse ran to the store on Friday to pick up a few things we needed for that.

Kroger Shopping Trip #3:

2 bunches of Lettuce — $1.79
Ragu Pasta Sauce — $1.50
Kroger Butter — $3.19
Breyer’s Ice Cream — $3.99
Cottage Cheese — $3.89
Total with tax: $17.16

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.

Our Menu Plan

Breakfasts:

Cereal, Oatmeal, Scrambled Eggs

Lunches:

Peanut Butter & Jelly Sandwiches, Carrots, Oranges, Salads, Leftovers, Cookies

Snacks:

Fruit, Cookies, Popcorn, Ice Cream, Crackers & Cheese, Carrots & Hummus

Dinners:

Sunday — Fend for yourself
Monday — Dinner at TopGolf for Silas’ birthday
Tuesday — Meatballs, Twice Baked Potatoes, Fruit
Wednesday — Leftover Meatballs, Potstickers, Fruit
Thursday — Homemade Pizza, Sweet Potato Fries, Fruit
Friday — Kaitlynn went out to dinner with her class for school formal, Jesse and I met friends for Panera, and Silas and Kathrynne had hot dogs
Saturday — We had friends over for dinner and we made Ziti, Peas, Homemade Rolls, Salad, Apple Crisp/Ice Cream.