Grocery Report/Menu Plan | I’m under, oh yes, I am.

On Saturdays, I share my menu plan for the upcoming week along with a photo of my groceries and a tally of my spending. My goal is to spend $100/week for our food, toiletries, and cleaning products. I’m currently in the midst of trying to buy more local, sustainably-produced food while sticking to my budget. Can it be done? I don’t know, but I’m going to try, and I’ll share what I learn as I go along.

The Shopping

I did venture out to the grocery store this week, and I have a photo to prove it:

I also bought a dozen eggs from my local blog reader and those aren’t pictured.

I spent $3 on the eggs, $55.40 at Weis, and $86.94 at Aldi for a total of $145.34.

But! Because of my grocery procrastinating, I’ve actually spent $270 over the last three weeks, which means I’m a bit under budget. Sweet.

The Menu

Since Mr. FG works second shift, we eat our dinner meal at noon during the week, and at night on the weekends. And our lunch meal happens at night during the week and at noon on the weekends.

We do eat breakfast in the morning, though, all week long!

(There’s a teeny bit of normalcy in our schedule at least.)

Breakfast options are homemade yogurt, granola, scrambled eggs, oatmeal, fruit, and cereal.

Lunches will be comprised of sandwiches made with whole wheat bread, homemade yogurt, yogurt smoothies, cottage cheese, fruit, raw veggies, nuts, cheese, and leftovers as necessary.

Here’s the dinner meal plan:

Saturday (It’s Zoe’s and Mr. FG’s birthday and Zoe got to pick the food for this meal)

• Stuffed Shells (I just use the recipe on the back of the pasta box)
• French Bread
• broccoli with cheese (Zoe likes broccoli so much, she wants it on her birthday. I wasn’t about to argue.)
• Jello (Zoe picked raspberry and orange)
• Chocolate Cake in the shape of a whale (hopefully!)

Sunday

• We’re having our date night since the birthdays bumped it from its usual Saturday spot.
  

Monday

• Chicken Quesadillas
• chips and salsa
• fruit salad

Tuesday

• Pan-Sauteed Tilapia
• Scalloped Potatoes (writing the post last week made me hungry for them, plus I want to take a better picture of the finished product)
• green salad

Wednesday

• Clam Chowder
• Cheese Bread
• Pan Roasted Green Beans

Thursday

• Panini Sandwiches
• Zucchini Patties
• grapefruit halves

Friday

• Homemade pizza. I need to take a family poll to see what kind everybody wants.

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