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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Kroger Shopping Trip #1
- Rotisserie Chicken — marked down to $4.19
- Broccoli Pearls — marked down to $1
- Bag of Nectarines — marked down to $0.99
- 2 bottles of Kroger salad dressing — marked down to $0.79 each
- Butter — $2.89
- Eggs — $2.99
- Green Leaf Lettuce — $1.79
- 4 cans of Campbell’s soup — on closeout for $0.50 each
- Loaf of Quinoa Bread — marked down for $1.79 each
- Brown Rice — $0.69
- 2 boxes Kellogg’s cereal — on sale for $1.79 when you buy 5 participating items, used $1/2 coupon = $1.29 each
- 3 boxes Mom’s Best cereal — $1.49 each when you buy 5 participating items
- Total with tax: $28.86
I’ve been finding so many closeout deals at Kroger recently! If you have time when you’re at Kroger, I recommend going through each aisle and looking for the white closeout tags to see what you find!
I was excited about the Friday-Saturday deals at Kroger. And, as you can imagine, my kids were pretty excited about the $0.99 ice cream!
Kroger Shopping Trip #2
Sprouts Shopping Trip
Dollar Tree Shopping Trip
(We stopped by to buy a few things for a project Kathrynne was working on so I grabbed these two things while we were there.)
- 1 package of lentils — $1
- 1 package of swabs — $1
- Total with tax: $2.18
What We Ate On Our $70 Grocery Budget 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:
- Scrambled Eggs/Avocado/Salsa, Fried Eggs, Cereal, Blueberries, Bran Muffins
Lunches:
- Leftovers, Salad/Toast, Blueberries, Cereal, Soup, Banana Muffins, Watermelon
Snacks:
- Popcorn, Cookies, Blueberries
Dinners:
- Sunday — Leftovers/fend for yourself
- Monday — Brats, Corn on the Cob
- Tuesday — Chicken Casserole, Peas, Banana Muffins
- Wednesday — Rotisserie Chicken, Rice, Fruit
- Thursday — Broccoli and Rice Stirfry with Leftover Rotisserie Chicken, Watermelon
- Friday — Olive Garden Take Out
- Saturday — Meatballs, Peas, Leftover Olive Garden Breadsticks
$70 Grocery Budget Totals
Total spent on groceries: $59.54
Cashback earned this week: 100 points for submitting my receipts to Fetch rewards + $0.10 for submitting my receipt to iBotta rewards.
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