menu plan and shopping trip round up

For a few months now I have been following this blog Grocery Cart Challenge and striving to spend only $60 a week on food. This feeds all four of us 3 times a day plus snacks 7 days a week, although I do allow us one meal out! So far I have done great coming out at a average of $59 and some change. Its been challenging but fun, and we actually are getting to eat a lot of new meals since I have had to get creative a few times. Its basically done by menu planning around what you already have at home. Here is this weeks menu and shopping trip totals.

Breakfast
M - egg scrambles
T - Cereal
W - Dawn Mcmuffins (like a healthy verzion of a egg mcmuffin)
TH - Chocolate chip muffins and melon
F - Eggs and toast
S - Big apple french toast casserole
S - out to eat

Lunch
we mix it up between sandwich's, chicken nuggets, burritos etc

Dinner
M - We had a coupon and went out for mexican!
T- Tuna noodle casserole
W - Shrimp scampi
TH - Lemon garlic chicken
F - Guy night (means the boys eat what they want, usually mac and cheese!)
S - Italian style turkey burgers
S - Crockpot roast chicken and veggies

the roundup

Winco
frozen chicken breast (6 lbs)- 11.96
Shrimp (1 lb)- $3.50
Milk - FREE
White vinegar - 1.98
Corn Syrup - 2.12
Hersheys - 1.68
apple juice - FREE
provalone - 3.48
Dill relish - 1.65
Egg beaters (2) - 4.54
Cream cheese - .98
tomato sauce (4) - 1.12
salad dressing - 1.88
rotini pasta (.84 lb)- .66
penne pasta (.90 lb)- .67
Powdered sugar (3.25 lbs) - 2.24
broccoli (1 lb) - 1.17
tomatoes - .78
bread - FREE
Cereal - FREE

total $40.41

Costco
Milk - 3.96
cheese - 5.69
salad - 3.99
croutons - 5.35

Total 18.99

Fred Meyer
36ct Eggs - $3.00

Total $3.00

weekly total = $62.40



To see how this is done and how others do it check out this blog Grocery Cart Challenge