Final Menu Recap

This Menu was a little hard to adhere too because of everyone's crazy schedules. With the weather nicer out dinners are harder to plan, but I was able to stick to most of it. The spaghetti pie went out the window but we had Chris's hotdish instead and we never did end up grilling either. I am not sure what we did to replace my free day, but I am sure we did something. That just shows you if I don't plan stuff out I am totally oblivious about the meal until a kid comes up to me and says, "whats for dinner".

Next weeks is harder too because of the holidays.....

Caden's Cause Thursday
BBQ grill Friday (try again)
Fajitas Saturday
Easter Sunday
Chicken Enchiladas Monday
Lasagna Tuesday (store bought)
Chicken Kiev Wednesday

Trying to make up for the other days and store bought meals by not eating out or doing pizza night this week.

New Week

Spent $141.32 on groceries this week, hopefully that lasts for awhile....

Menu

Lasagna (homemade) Wednesday
BBQ Pork Sandwiches Thursday
Chicken Pot Pie Friday
BBQ on Grill Saturday
Spaghetti Pie Sunday
Fried Chicken Monday
?????? Tuesday (can't remember)

Menu Follow Up???

We did fairly good on the menu thing last week minus a few exceptions. For five of the days we followed it to the T, but on Monday we had leftovers instead. That was nice to clean out the refrigerator and it still saved on money because I wasn't able to find all the ingredients for pizza casserole anyway. On Tuesday, I splurged on White Castle (besides cravings) I had a few bucks left over and we aren't doing pizza night on Wednesday either. So I don't think the week went too bad, especially since over the weekend we had two extra eaters in the house too.

Grocery Day

$200.00
- 100.00 (rounding up)
$100.00
- 10.00 (Papa Murphy's pizza night)
$90.00
-?????? (Target stuff...diapers, laundry detergent)


Weekly Menu

Wednesday: Pizza Night
Thursday: 1st official grill night
Friday: Sweet & Sour Chix and fixings
Saturday: Chix Alfredo
Sunday: Baked Taco
Monday: Pizza Casserole
Tuesday: Salisbury Steaks

I am shooting to keeping the weekly menus different for at least two weeks in a row.

2nd Attempt Follow Up

Okay so the week was long and here are a few things I had to add to the list.

$25.01 Gas
$16.03 Milk run
$15.37 Dairy Queen
$38.00 Patrick's French Bakery
$20.00 Beer (4 Chris)

2nd Attempt Details

$200.00 weekly budget
-$ 96.00 groceries (menu below)
$104.00
-$ 9.99 pizza night
$ 94.99
-$20.00 target stuff (soap, napkins, paper towels, all purpose cleaner)
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$ 74.99 left

Weekly Menu
Wednesday: Pizza Night (Papa Murphy's)
Thursday: Roast Beef Sandwiches & Roasted Veggies (green beans, peppers & onions)
Friday: Ravioli Casserole
Saturday: Picnic Loaf w/ chips
Sunday: Tacos w/ chips
Monday: Beef Stroganoff w/ potatoes (style ????)
Tuesday: Pepper Steak w/ glazed carrots

Estimation 8-(

I thought I was doing really good with the grocery thing today but I forgot all about the unexpected things that come up too. I put myself up with the automatic transfer thing through the bank so some of my money goes into savings right away and then I take the rest out in cash so I have it in hand to know what I have to spend. Well.....I am trying to stick to $200.00 a week because I know that is closer to what we are going to be on when I actually run out of unenjoyment (as Chris says). So I figure I need to learn now how to live off that, so here it goes.

$220.00 (extra $20 from previous week)
- 140.00 (Groceries)
$80.00
- $20.00 (Jasmine skating night, still haven't gotten the change back)
$60.00
- $20.00 (Chris ran out of beer, supposedly on loan and I get it back MAYBE)
$40.00 (left for the rest of the weekend until next Wednesday)

Plus I still have to put gas in my van, but after Friday I don't really have to leave the house until next Tuesday for Jayna's school again so if I don't put gas in the van I think I will make it still. Budgeting sucks I hope we don't have any other things come up otherwise I am hosed.

March 1st, Day One, Week One

Savings = 436.00-300.00=136.00

Transfered 300.00 to checking

Spent 235.00 just today



Bought: Target

TP, jelly beans, 1 plastic bin, screw hooks, oreos, TP holder, Towel ring,



Bought: IKEA

shelving, closet rods, cutting board, lint roller, spice holder, side table, undercabinet organizer,