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Grocery Challenge: Week 4 and Recap of Weeks 2 and 3
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I appreciate you sharing about how you are working to meet the grocery challenge…realistically! We blew the budget the first week (which was not entirely my doing), but have still enjoyed the challenge of lowering our grocery and food bill in the following weeks. It’s been a fun few weeks!
Didn’t you post this about week 2?? It is dated in your blog, Sunday, July 19th???
Here’s a recap of my expenses:
$29.02 walmart
$5.12 grocery store for yogurt
$5.99 milk, eggs and bananas
$8.08 McDonalds for Thursday lunch. I ran errands with the kids on Thursday and was out later than I expected.
$9.17 Culvers ($1 Butter burgers on Saturday)
$45 Sushi for dinner on Saturday (it was our 8th wedding anniversary on Wednesday and we waited until Saturday to celebrate)
Total Expenses: $102.38 which is just above the $100 allowance for our family of four
But as you can see, we spent more than half of our allowance eating out. I know a lot of you were concerned about doing the challenge because you were going on vacation or had a birthday during this period. This is what I realized this week: life happens. Sure, some weeks we can spend $50 feeding our families but there will be weeks when vacations, birthdays or anniversaries happen, so you will go over your budget. What matters is to focus on long term results not short term ones.
Oops – I just realized that post was for week one. Sorry!!
We don’t do cheap coffee either!
Mealtime is very intresting…thanks for the tip.
I went over our food budget of $100 already!! lol But in my defense we went under the last 2 weeks so maybe it will balance out
wait…that included school supplies …so maybe i balanced out!
I’ve been doing great! I can’t believe it took me so long to find the world of couponing.
Our budget used to be $50 a week (I shop at shop n save for the 10/50 promo on Thursdays). And then I’d allocate 10-15 bucks for any good clearance at Target.
Now I am hovering under $40 a week, sometimes less.
This is for all our needs…baby, hygiene, food, toiletries etc.
<3 Thank you