Week 2 - March 7 -14

Hello all. It's me again. Here on the experimental budget of $100 a month for groceries. This week was a good week. Earlier in the week I was at Target and got 2 Jennie-O Turkeys for an amazing price. They were originally $9.03 and $9.73 and both had a "take $3.00 off" sticker. Yaaaay! That's $6.03 and $6.73 for more than 12 lbs of turkey. I was really excited but it will bring the next two weeks down a bit budget wise to recoup the larger meat find but I have enough meat for a while with those birds! Plus we were able to eat for like a week on the Cuban beans and rice from last week so this week some of the things on the menu plan are the same but moved around.

I have to be fair and let you know I have been eating some of our stocked items too so we aren't eating just chicken but like tonight, for example, was Rosemary and Thyme Encrusted Chicken, salad (greens and cucumber from last week and items from this week), and Tangy Sugar Snap Peas (I had the peas in the freezer already). Sooo I can say it has actually been good so far to eat through some of the stuff we got in stead of finding it in the freezer past the ummm yummy date.

So here was what I got for the week of March 7-14
Turkey
Bananas
Organic Carrots
Puffed Red Wheat Cereal (got that at a steal of $1.00 per 12 oz bag. I went ahead and got 2)
Cubed Butternut Squash
Vine Tomatoes
Zucchini
Cabbage
Potatoes

Menu Plan
Tu - Rosemary and Thyme Encrusted Chicken
W - Leftovers
Th - Chicken Noodle Soup (with pasta)
F - Egg Drop Soup/ Asian Veggetables
S - Chicken Vegetable Soup
Su - Leftovers
M - Spaghetti, Garlic Bread (already had the stuff for this)

So my total with the Turkeys was $29.07. I already went over a bit for last week but I knew the meat purchase would put me over for this week. That means I'll be super frugal for the next couple of grocery runs. So far I have spent $55.30. So I'll be spending about $20 for the next two weeks. Buuuuut my parents are coming to see us next week so we'll have to see how that turns out. I don't want them to feel like they're starved but I also want to show them that I can do the $100 a month without sacrificing having yummy, whole foods.

So that's how I see it... it's a Phillipsology.