Menu plan Monday and shopping trip roundup

Sometimes I surprise myself! Today I did just that at the grocery store. How, you ask? Well I got this weeks worth of groceries for $23. You read that right, $23 to feed me and the boys all this week and leftovers! So how did I do it and what are we eating?

Breakfast
Cereal, banana bread, eggs and toast

Lunches
PB&J, chicken nuggets, fruit and whatever else we can make on hand

Dinner
M - Creamy garlic pasta with carrots and corn (left over from Sunday)
T - Eating dinner at mom's
W - Crock pot potato chowder
TH - Three-Cheese Chicken Penne Pasta Bake
F - Left over buffet
S - BRIAN'S HOME! We are eating out to celebrate
S - Chicken chow mien

Winco

apple juice - 1.98
2 can cream of celery - 1.62
cream of chicken - .70
spaghettio's - .58
2 can chicken broth - .96
spaghetti sauce - .78
cream cheese - .98
mozarella - 1.80
chow mien mix - .88
bacon - 1.98
2# carrots - .88
milk - 1.99
4# apples - 1.48
spinach - 1.78
3.25# rice - 1.33
2# banana - 1.04
onion -.34
green onions - .58
1.2# pasta - .90
green pepper - .48

Total = $23.06



So even with eating out this weekend when Brian gets home as long as we stay under $40 we will still be on budget for the week!

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