$50 Per Week Grocery Challenge: Week #6

How Much Did I Spend For Week #6?

This week was atrocious for grocery sales.  And so, I decided not to buy anything except milk and then I did pick up 2 packages of flour tortillas.  My total was $16.34.  A pretty boring week and there better be some good sales next week on meat, vegis and fruit.

Here is the breakdown for Week #6

Meat:  Nothing

Fruit and Vegetables:  Nothing

Dairy:  4 Cartons of Milk at $3.46 each

Misc.:  2 Packages of Flour Tortillas at $1.25 each


Here is a list of the meals we had this week:

Breakfast:  Homemade Granola, Homemade Grape Nuts, Oatmeal, Malt-O-Meal, Waffles or Toast.

Dinner:  Leftovers from supper or Sandwiches from my Freshly Ground Whole Wheat Bread and Yogurt

Supper:  
Sunday - Fend for yourself night.

Monday - Fend for yourself night: Take Two.  My parents were in town and took us out for lunch. After an extremely filling meal at the local Chinese Restaurant and a few too many fresh-from-the-oven cinnamon rolls I had no interest in making a large meal for supper.

Tuesday - Chili and Cornbread

Wednesday - Baked Potatoes with Chili and Cheese

Thursday - Pork Chops in Cream of Mushroom Soup, Hash Browns and Green Beans

Friday - Scrambled Eggs, French Toast and Breakfast Sausage

Saturday - Sweet and Sour Pork, Rice and Green Beans

Desserts:  Caramel Rolls, Frosted Brownies

You may wonder how I stretch my budget?  One way is to use meat sparingly.  For example the chili I made  used 3 lbs of hamburger, but I was able to freeze over half of it for future use and the rest gave me 2 meals for supper and a couple of meals for dinner.  Not bad.  A few weeks ago I purchased the boneless pork and cut the 4 lbs in half.  I made the first meal of pork chops and used the rest to make the sweet and sour pork.  The cost of the pork, hamburger and breakfast sausage was less than $12 of meat for almost a weeks worth of meals.