This week deemed to be more of a challenge living on $40 a week for groceries. Rather than shopping by myself in hopes that I could buy some additional things, I sent my husband. Typically, he is better at self control when shopping than I am. I tend to be an impulsive shopper. Impulsive shoppers are the type that marketers love because we pick things up that are marketed to us throughout the store. Marketers tend to put things in certain places to catch our attention and hope that we pick them up. Well, I tend to do just that but on $40/week grocery budget, you can't do that! We ended up with a total of $38.50, only $1.50 to split between the kids. At this rate it will take forever to add up their college funds!
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| Little-C enjoying her ice cream cone! |
This week Dave purchased the necessities for our family such as; milk, bread, lettuce, pancake mix, pasta, syrup, spaghetti sauce (Ragu instead of Prego since it was cheaper) and bagels. He took little-C with him but he didn't use the mini-cart. She rode in the in the extremely large cart with the race car so she could pretend driving the car through the store. Dave went on Sunday afternoon and thankfully they had samples at Hy-Vee. Little-C was able to sample crackers, icre cream and a cinnamon roll. What an excellent idea! Dave was able to feed little-C for free!! As you can tell from the photo, she was thoroughly enjoying her ice cream cone.
R-man's food consisted of mixed vegetables, sweet potatoes & apples, mango's and applesauce. Keep in mind that I always flavor up the applesauce with cinnamon. If I can have a little flavor in my food, then so can he!
This week, I learned that living on a budget is:
- Getting extremely difficult and part of me will be glad when lent is over!
- More challenging than I thought it would be, especially when making baby food.
- A good thing when wanting to stick to a certain dollar figure. Laura talked about the envelope system in her blog! This is something great to implement into your families budget.
Although we only have three more weeks to go, our family may be continuing this budget since we are thinking about moving to a new home. We don't want to move anymore things than we have to!
For Spaghetti sauce, the small cans of Hunts all-natural, no added sodium are only 50 cents or less and 2 or 3 of them can usually cover enough noodles or other food. We usually keep some McCormick Garlic and Herb, as well as Italian Seasoning, in the pantry. That can easily turn the tomato sauce into spaghetti sauce for not a lot of money.
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