Grocery Spending and Menu-last one in August.

The Spending

The cow that we normally get out milk from has adopted a calf, whose mother rejected him/her (I don’t know much about the calf!). So, the calf is getting most of the milk, the farmer’s family is getting the rest, and our milk came from the grocery store this week.

I spent $38.13 at Aldi and $47.45 at Weis. Unfortunately on that shopping day, I left my grocery lists at home. Surprisingly enough, I remembered almost everything on my list. Somehow, though, I completely forgot to get mozzarella cheese. I don’t know how that happened because I use it every single Friday to make pizza.

So, I made a trek to the local grocery store and bought a pound of mozzarella, 2 pounds of peaches, and a 1.75 quart package of vanilla ice cream (to make root beer floats!) for $7.20.

That makes for a $92.78 total. Yay! That’s under my $100 budget even though I stocked up on chicken breasts, which were on sale for $1.69/lb.

The Food

Here’s my produce (except for the watermelon, which inexplicably ended up in the non-produce picture again!).

The watermelon and everything else.

The Menu

Breakfast: fruit, toast, bagels, and cereal

Lunch: yogurt smoothies, fruit, sandwiches, leftovers, raw carrots, cucumbers and tomatoes

Dinners are as follows. Some of these are repeats from last week…due to my husband’s tonsil problems, we didn’t end up eating some of the planned meals.

Saturday

• Grilled Hamburgers
• homemade buns
• potato chips
• raw veggies

Sunday

• French Toast
• OJ

Monday

• Italian Grilled Chicken
• braided bread
• green salad

Tuesday

• Chicken Pasta salad, made with leftover grilled chicken
• whatever produce needs using by then

Wednesday (This is Joshua’s birthday, so he chose the meal)

• Ham sandwiches on homemade rolls, in the shape of a snake
• Jello
• fruit salad
• Birthday cake and ice cream

Thursday

• BBQ Beef sandwiches on homemade buns
• steamed green beans

Friday

• Deep Dish Pizza
• root beer
• green salad