Project: Food Budget – Week 12
Tweet Budget: $70.00 Actual: $45.88 Once again, another super under budget week. But I can’t take credit for working magic with coupons or sales… the plain truth is we ate out so much over the week that I only made three of the seven meals I’d planned! So, that left four meals for this upcoming [...]
Project: Food Budget – Week 11
Tweet Budget: $70.00 Actual: $86.64 Definitely over budget this week! We saved $17.38, though, so thank goodness for coupons and the Kroger plus card. Last week… meals didn’t really turn out as planned. At all. Who knew it was going to be so difficult to just muster up the motivation to stand for any period of [...]
Project: Food Budget – Week 10
Tweet Budget: $70.00 Actual: $57.57 I can’t believe we’re already at week 10 – wow! We really needed groceries this week. As you can see… our fridge is pretty much completely cleaned out. After being sick, all of the produce and most of the leftovers in the fridge went bad. Really bad. So we cleaned [...]
February Recipe Review
Tweet We tried 11 new recipes in the month of February and most were winners. Some were not, though. We ate at home most of the days of the month, which was a personal goal I had set for us. We’re kind of on a roll, if I do say so myself. This month, I [...]
Project: Food Budget – Weeks 8 & 9
Tweet Week 8 Budget – $70.00 Actual – $36.50 Week 9 Budget – $70.00 Actual – $73.49 So, week 8 our spending was drastically down because I was sick most of the week. The day I would normally have gone grocery shopping, I started getting a fever. By the time Wednesday rolled around, I was [...]
Project: Food Budget – Week 7 (plus February spending recap!)
Tweet Budget – $70.00 Actual – $86.26 I was $16.26 over budget this week. Our savings was $15.46, which is good at least. The reason we went over budget is we made a random grocery trip on Sunday. I had to get meat for Alex’s breakfast burritos; I had to buy yogurt because the yogurt [...]
Project: Food Budget – Week 6
Tweet Budget: $70.00 Actual: $3.56 (meat market) and $61.50 (Kroger) – totaling $65.06 I’m pretty proud of our spending this week! I bought 2 pounds of chicken last Wednesday or Thursday at a local meat market and that was a savings of $6.82 over what we would have spent on 2 pounds of chicken from [...]
Project: Food Budget – Week 5
Tweet Budget: $70.00 Actual: $67.68 Our dinners this week: Wednesday (02/08) – Had dinner at Applebees with my family Thursday (02/09) – Pan Roasted Chicken with Lemon-Garlic Green Beans (it’s baking right now and smells great!) Friday (02/10) – New England Pot Roast Saturday (02/11) – Spinach Lasagna Rolls (this time I’m making it with lasagna instead [...]
January Recipe Reviews
Tweet In January, Alex and I ate at home more days in a month probably than we ever have in the four years we’ve been married. That’s kind of sad, but it’s also a huge feat for us – we love eating out! – and I’m really proud of how well we did. We learned [...]
Project: Food Budget – Week 4
Tweet Budget: $70.00 Actual: $53.40 Wednesday (02/01) – Leftovers (Pasta with Peanut Sauce for me and chili from my sister-in-law for Alex) Thursday (02/02) – Shepard’s Pie Friday (02/03) – Easy Crock Pot Chicken Saturday (02/04) – Out with family after our 3D/4D Ultrasound! Sunday (02/05) – SUPERBOWL! We always have chili at my parent’s [...]
