The Inspired Bloggers Network issued a challenge ~ Try to buy groceries for $25 per person for a week. Since there are six people (2 adults, 4 children) that live in my house, that challenge puts us at $150 for the week.
My grocery budget for the month is $500, which comes out to $125 each week. I live in a fairly low cost area and I do a lot of my grocery shopping at Aldi. I also shop the sales at Food Lion and sometimes Harris Teeter.
Here is what a typical week of eating looks like for us:
Breakfast ~
We eat cereal, pancakes, eggs, muffins, and oatmeal. I buy a canister of quick oats and we add our own flavors (brown sugar and maple syrup, apple cinnamon, etc)
Lunch ~
I try to make enough at dinner time to have leftovers for lunch the next day. If I don't make enough for leftovers, we will usually eat sandwiches or macaroni and cheese.
Dinner ~
We usually eat things like spaghetti, tacos, soup/chili during the winter, chef salad during the summer with home grown vegetables, chicken pot pie, and bbq chicken.
Snacks~
I buy whatever fruit is on sale or in season. We also like to eat granola bars, raisins, and nuts for snacks.
You can take a look at past menus or find some recipes on my old recipe blog for more ideas. I have also posted some recipes on this blog.
There are some weeks I go over the budget, but there are also weeks I am under budget. It really just depends on what I have in my pantry and deep freezer at the time I go grocery shopping for the week. In the end, I am usually always on budget for the month.
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