Menu plan Monday and shopping trip roundup

Christmas week is here! That means days of feasts and lots of treats! It also means extra money going to the grocery budget. I am the baking queen in my family, so if its sweet I make it. That means lots of extra ingredients to buy, but hey, its Christmas and its all worth it!

On the Christmas baking list I have sugar cookies, Hershey kiss peanut butter cookies, two white chocolate raspberry cheesecakes, key lime fudge, Chinese noodle cookies and an artichoke dip. The raspberry cheesecakes (one each for 2 different celebrations) are featuring raspberries grown from my mothers garden, YUM!

Breakfast - Cereal and milk, oatmeal, and Overnight Cinnamon rolls for Christmas morning

Lunch - Sandwich's and fruit, leftovers and whatever else we can scrounge up

Dinner
M - Turkey soup and grilled cheese (soup form freezer)
T - Tacos
W - Homemade pizza
TH - Tuscan beef stew (from freezer)
F - Baked Salmon with cream sauce, mashed potatoes with green beans
S - Christmas at Grandma Betty's house
S - Christmas at Grandma Stephanie's house

Winco

Gogurt - 2.50
8 cream cheese - 7.04
2 milk - 3.98
whip cream - 2.86
sour cream - 1.48
half and half - .78
2 garlic toast - 3.76 (1.00 coupon)
3 doz eggs - 3.84
1.5# cornstarch - 1.00
7.5# sugar - 3.34
7.5# powdered sugar - 4.92
6.5# flour - 1.90
1.25# frosted flakes - 1.89
mozzarella cheese - 1.68
1# fruit loops - 1.48
4.25# white chocolate chips - 10.07
.75# baking powder - .69
pizza dough - 2.12
3 butter - 5.94
taco shells - 1.18
chocolate wafers - 3.78
2 Hershey kiss - 7.56 (1.00 coupon)
maple syrup - 1.92
yeast - .89
black olives - 1.52
artichoke hearts - 1.68
condensed milk - 1.70
almond bark - 1.78
Parmesan cheese - 1.98
dark choc chips - 1.98
apple cider mix - 1.53
fruit cocktail - 1.55
parsley - .58
green onions - .58
tomato paste - .40
tomatoes - .70
lime - .25
apple juice - 1.98

total $92.81

I also got 2 toothbrushes and toothpaste for stocking stuffers so add a extra $7.23 if you want but I took them from a different budget

Costco

Salad - 3.99
grilled chicken - 14.45
sausage - 13.99
bananas - 1.32
cheese -5.69

total $39.42

NOT pictures is 8 loaves bread and 3 pounds apples and oranges purchased yesterday total $10.00

Grand total = $142.23

I didn't think I did to bad especially considering last week was only $23. What really shocked me is how expensive holiday baking can be. Out of all this about $60 of it was just the sweets and apps I am making! Insert jaw drop here!



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