I went shopping on Monday morning — something I haven’t done a lot recently (I’ve gotten into a rhythm of often shopping on Saturday evening). I remembered why I used to be such a fan of shopping on weekday mornings… because there were so many great produce markdowns!!
I did a happy dance when I saw all these bananas and peppers marked down!
And look at all that meat marked down!
What I Bought at Kroger
- Kellogg’s cereal — $1.79 each, used $1/2 coupon = $1.29 each
- Oreo cookies — $0.99 each
- Animal crackers — $0.99
- Kellogg’d crackers — $0.99 each
- Stayfree pads — $1.99 each, used $2/2 coupon = $0.99 each
- Bic Soleil razors — $2.69, used $4/1 coupon = free after coupon (they took off the amount of the item + tax)
- Ground turkey — marked down to $2.89
- 2 Ground beef — marked down to $2.99 each
- Ground beef — marked down to $3.79
- Pork ribs — marked down to $7.24
- Deodorant — $0.99
- Peanuts — on closeout for $0.84
- Briana dressing — marked down to $0.99
- Gerber baby food — marked down to $0.29
- 3 packages Red Star Yeast — marked down to $0.25 each
- Butter — $2.50
- 2 dozen Kroger brown eggs — marked down to $0.99 each
- 3 cartons cage free eggs — marked down to $0.99 each
- Peanut butter — $1.50
- 3 Yoplait yogurts — marked down too $0.29 each
- Grape Juice — $2.79
- 3 Yoplait yogurt packs — $1.99 each
- Lettuce — $1.79
- Bananas — $2.88
- 4 bags marked down produce — $0.99 each
- Blueberries — $2.99
- Total with tax:
What We Ate This Week
Many of you have been asking for me to share more about what we eat each week. So here’s a little peek into some of our meals this week…
Monday night we used bread I had in the freezer (that I had gotten marked down and had frozen) + the cartons of Cage-Free eggs I got marked down to make…
French Toast! We served it with fruit on the side.
Lunches every day (for me) were salads with toast and butter.
Tuesday night, we had a double header baseball game for Silas, so we had a quick and simple meal of meatballs (using the marked down ground beef and turkey I had gotten recently and frozen) and raw peppers (since I got a lot marked down!)
I ate Energy Bites for breakfast some of the mornings. We also did scrambled eggs and blueberries and the kids had cereal or oatmeal most of the morning.
Wednesday night we had Barbecue Chicken (barbecue sauce over frozen chicken breasts in the crockpot), Rice, Raw Peppers, and Sourdough Bread.
Thursday night, the three older kids had leftovers and Jesse and I took the babies to a Foster Care Appreciation Dinner at Church of the City (they had free childcare!)
Friday night, we had baseball again, so I did a salad with toast for dinner. Jesse grabbed some fast food for the rest of the family.
Saturday we had Frozen Pizzas and veggies. Sunday we had fend for yourself — which was leftovers and cereal! 🙂
Was it helpful to have this rundown of what we ate? Let me know — and, if so, I’ll try to do it more often!
I think it’s great that you’re sharing about what you actually eat from your weekly grocery shops. I think most people, unlike you, tend to shop for the week ahead. I know personally I don’t have the storage space for stocking food for weeks in advance so I just buy what I will eat that week, so it would be nice to know if it’s possible to eat on a budget while not having a stockpile of food.
Just to clarify, I typically do practice the Buy Ahead principle. We’ve done this even when we lived in a tiny apartment (I’ve stored food in all sorts of weird places — like our bedroom closet!). So when I share what we eat, a lot of it is based upon what we already have on hand and a lot of what I buy is for future weeks!
I always enjoy seeing what your family eats and how you make it work with the $70 budget!! It’s inspiring!! 🙂
Thanks for your encouragement!
I cannot believe all the markdowns you were blessed with!!!! I was going to message you to see if you had found any lately because we haven’t found a thing🥲…..and we went Monday morning too🤪. Happy to see this!!!
That’s disappointing! Did they change the day/time they markdown?
YES, I loved seeing what you ate all week! Actually seeing the pictures of the meals in one post is better for me than a written meal plan, and seeing the whole week at once is really helpful as well. Thank you! (Thanks also for linking it from your IG stories 😉)
You are so welcome! I’m grateful it was helpful!
I enjoy your grocery shopping posts and your meal plan! Would love to know what is in all those salads! They look yummy!
I often share details on Instagram stories, if you follow me there. I usually share my salads every day!
Thanks for posting; I enjoy seeing how to turn freezer food and “eat soon” produce into quick family meals 🙂
I have fun coming up with creative ideas on how to use it up!
Yes, it makes it seem much more attainable for me when I see specifics! Thank you for sharing.
I really enjoy seeing how you stretch your grocery budget. It’s amazing! And also what you make from what you buy. It helps me a lot. Thank you.
You are so welcome!
Thank you for sharing! I love seeing your shopping posts and what you are. I love a good Kroger markdown, so you finding them make me happy too!
Kroger markdowns are the BEST, aren’t they??