Just wonderin'...

[Guest Guest]

What does your budget look like per month on what you spend for food and household items? Most of my friends say about $400 a month ($100 a week)...how 'bout yours? My friends each have a DH and two young kids.

[Dee]

Just food budget for the month for two people is about 140.00 or less a month with coupon and shopping card savings.

Yesterday I went to Aldi's and spent 50.23 dollars for two weeks worth of groceries which included food for three meals a day and stuff to make home made snacks.

 

I was under my budget so I deposited my leftover money in my grocery savings jar.

You don't have to pass up fine dining on a budget.

At aldi's I bought :

 

2 Cornish Hens

2-3pks of Boneless Pork Loin Thick Chops

1 large pack of their boneless skinless chicken breasts containing 8 to 10 breasts, These pieces are huge so I split one in half to make 2 servings.

1 10 pk of 90 % Fat Free Ground beef Patties pack

1 all beef hot dogs

1 spiral ham

6 lbs of ground turkey at 59 cents a lb roll

All this meat came to 22.78

That left me with 27.00 ( rounded out) for cold cereal- crackers-a family sized box of oatmeal- 2 cases of vegetables at 29 cents a can, fresh celery, onions, potatoes, carrots and bananas plus some oranges, a pk of cheese, milk,2 doz eggs and ice cream and 4 loaves of bread and 1 pk of hamburger rolls and 1 of hot dog rolls all for 27.00 dollars. I have homemade jams and jellys and I make most of my own noodles myself besides my soups stews and gravies and desserts.

The only other product we buy is a 5 lb can of Peter Pan peanut butter at Sams twice a month which is about 5.00 a can.

 

Out of the chicken breasts I bought at Aldi I can make fried chicken, barbecued chicken, roasted chicken, sticky chicken,

chicken and noodles, chicken nuggets, chicken and biscuits, soup and more...

 

With the pork chops I can make pork fried rice, pork chops and saurkraut, pork peas and potato casserole, pulled pork barbeque, plus more

 

I make meatballs from the ground turkey plus a couple of meatloafs, plus use ground turkey to make sloppy joes and other dishes,

 

With the bag of potatoes I bought we will get several dishes from them.

 

I not only use the hot dog rolls for hot dogs but I will use them for meat ball subs too!

The hamburger rolls are used for hamburgers, sloppy joes, ham and pineapple sandwiches and egg and ham sandwiches.