We spent $66 on groceries this week!

Want to see what we bought for this week’s $70 grocery budget? I’m currently challenging myself to stick with a $70 budget for our family of seven. This includes almost all of our breakfasts, lunches, snacks, and dinners + most household products (toiletries, laundry soap, etc.).

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Well, it’s been a LONG time since I’ve done a grocery post! I actually didn’t step foot into a store for around 12 weeks! (We’ve been doing Kroger pickup instead.)

How I have missed shopping and looking for markdowns! It was so good — and a little weird! — to be back to shopping. I ended up going shopping twice this past week.

Here’s what I got:

Kroger Shopping Trip #1:

• 5 boxes Quaker Granola Bars — $0.99 each when you buy 5 or more participating items
• 4 bottles of Dove shampoo/conditioner — $2.49 each when you buy 5 or more participating items, used $1.50/1 Kroger digital coupon = $0.99 each after coupon
• Kroger coconut oil — $3.99
• Happy Eggs dozen eggs — marked down to $1.99
• 2 dozen Simple Truth — marked down to $1.49 each
• Yoplait Oui yogurt — marked down to $0.69
• Yoplait yogurt — marked down to $0.25
• 5 bags of Chex Mix — $0.99 each when you buy 5 or more participating items
• Kroger Cake Mix — marked down to $0.50
• Kroger Peanut Butter — used FREE coupon that I got in a Kroger mailer
• Bob’s Flaxseed — on closeout for $1.09 each
• Milk — $2.59
• 2 bags of coconut — $1.27 each
• Cheerios — $1.79 when you buy 5 or more participating items
• 3 boxes — on closeout for $1.40 each
• Gallon of water — $0.79
• Quinoa Bread — marked down to $2.29
• Salad — $1.69
• Salad greens — $1.79
• Total with tax: $49.87

Kroger Shopping Trip #2:

• Honey — $3.99
• 2 packages Kroger Sausage — marked down to $1.29 each
• Whole chicken — marked down to $5.37
• Bananas — marked down to $0.39 each — $1.18 total
• Total with tax: $16.69

I’m freezing the bananas and I think I’m going to use them for Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins or Banana Bread.

Total spent on groceries: $66.56

Our Menu Plan This Week

Note: When you see the meals below, 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 my shopping trip that I used to make all of the meals we ate.

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.

Dinners:

Sunday — Mac & Cheese

Monday — Sweet Potatoes/Apples/Sausage in the Crockpot, English Muffin Bread, Steamed Peas

Tuesday — Breakfast Casserole, Instant Pot Cinnamon Apples

Wednesday — BBQ Chicken in the Crockpot, Cheesy Hashbrown Potatoes, Peas, English Muffin Bread, Salad

Thursday — Leftovers

Friday — I had planned that we were going to get takeout, but the night got away from us and that didn’t happen. I had a salad with hard boiled eggs and toast, everyone else had cereal and other odds and ends (hey, I’m just keeping it real here!)

Saturday — Takeout