This Week’s $31 Grocery Shopping Trips + What We Ate This Past Week

I’m currently challenging myself to stick with a $70 grocery budget for our family of five. This includes almost all of our breakfasts, lunches, snacks, and dinners + most household products (toiletries, laundry soap, etc.).

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I left on Thursday morning for a much-anticipated beach trip with two of my closest friends. So I didn’t do as much grocery shopping this week, as a result. We were pretty stocked up on food from the extras I had bought the past month and stuck in the pantry and freezer, so I didn’t need to buy much.

And I’ll just roll over the money I didn’t spend this week to next week’s grocery budget.

Please remember this: I buy ahead often. Which means that when I find a great deal on something I know we’ll use, I buy as much as I can afford in our budget to have on hand.

This means that you aren’t going to see all of the groceries in these shopping trips that I used to make all of the meals we ate. And  it also means we didn’t use all of these groceries up this week — because some of them will be saved for later weeks!

Please also remember that I’m putting this out there and it’s not a perfectly balanced menu. This is just really what we ate — and I hope that it encourages you to see the real-ness and lack of perfection here. ?

Kroger Shopping Trip #1:

5 boxes of Quaker Oatmeal Packets — $0.99 each when you purchase 5 boxes

Total with tax: $5.31 

Kroger Shopping Trip #2:

• Organic Lettuce — marked down to $1.79
• Buns — marked down to $0.59
• Artisan Bread — marked down to $1.49
• 2 Fage Yogurt — marked down to $0.49 each
• 4 yogurts — marked down to $0.39 each
• 1 bag of avocados — marked down to $0.99
• Raw sugar — $2.89
• Bananas — marked down to $0.39/lb. = $1.86 total
• Flour — $1.39
• 4 cottage cheese — marked down to $0.69
• Milk — $2.69
• 2 Oreo yogurts — $0.99 each when you buy 5 participating items
• 2 Danimals — $0.99 each when you buy 5 participating items
• Simply Lemonade — $0.99 each when you buy 5 participating items
• Total with tax: $25.46

What We Ate This Week

Breakfasts:

• Cereal, Oatmeal, Toast/Eggs, Turmeric Milk, Banana Bread with Peanut Butter (Everyone is on their own for breakfast!)

Lunches:

• Hard Boiled Eggs, Avocados, Salad, Cottage Cheese, Lasagna Casserole, Turkey Burgers, Apples, Pancakes (Jesse & Me)
• Turkey Sandwiches, Fruit, Veggies, Banana Bread, Granola Bars, Yogurt, Cookies, Capri Sun (For the kids — They are in charge of their own lunches.)

Snacks:

• Banana Bread, Yogurt, Cottage Cheese, Fruit/Veggies, Cookies, Hard Boiled Eggs

Dinners:

• Sunday: Leftovers/Fend For Yourself
• Monday: Lasagna Casserole, Peas, Grapes
• Tuesday: Turkey Burgers & Spaghetti (Fend For Yourself Night again since everyone had different things going on)
• Wednesday: Lasagna Casserole, Pumpkin Doughnut Muffins
• Thursday: French Toast
• Friday: Dinner Out

What I Spent This Week

Total spent: $30.77

Cashback Earned This Week: 75 points from Fetch Rewards for scanning my receipts