Project: Food Budget Month End Total: $398.06 Week Total: $40.66
My healthy budget goal is to eat seasonal, home-cooked meals while sticking to a $400 monthly budget for all food including groceries, dining out, entertaining, vitamins/supplements, and gardening.
There’s two of us eating 3 (mostly) meals per day. My husband occasionally eats take-out lunch at work, & that $ comes out of his personal cash stash.
End of March & April Month 6, Week 1
March ended beautifully! We even celebrated my hubby’s birthday with dinner out, and I was still under budget $2. Whoo hoooo!
March monthly total: $398.06
Dining Out: $32, month: $100.44
Gardening: $0, month: $15.32
Groceries: $8.91, month: $282.30
For the first week of April, I’ve spent $40.66, leaving $359.34 for the rest of month.
Doing super duper so far!
Dining Out: $6.09
Entertaining: $
Gardening: $
Groceries: $34.57
Spending Details
Market Basket (3/31) $8.91: Bag o’ oranges, grapefruit, bananas, peanuts
Whole Foods Grocery (4/1) $34.57: (2) Organic peanut butter (got one for free, because it was priced incorrectly during check-out), (2) Organic Valley half & half (on sale w/ coupons), cheese, bulk raisins, (2) cauliflower, 5 lb bag o’ organic carrots, bananas, organic apples, bunch of cilantro, asparagus, (2) mangoes.
Week of Meals
- Thursday: leftover frozen beef with canned tomatoes & kidney beans over pasta
- Friday: comfort dumplings with olive oil
- Saturday: DH’s birthday dinner – gift $$
- Sunday: Bulgar & roasted cauliflower topped with fried egg
- Monday: Chicken legs braised in tomato sauce topped over quinoa
- Tuesday: lentil soup with homemade stock, cabbage, canned diced tomatoes, carrots, & roasted red peppers – topped with lil bit o’ cheese
- Wednesday: Fried egg over steamed asparagus & brown rice with whole wheat toast & butter
Want to Join the Project Food Budget?
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Here’s who else is budgeting this week:
- Emily Levenson
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- Red Pen Mama
- Fit Flexitarian
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- Katy Rank Lev
- Little Blue Hen
- xox, b
- Project Food Budget 2.0
- Two Eggs Over Easy
- Eat Whole Be Vital
- Four Happy Violets
- Pgh Dad
- yogabeautylife
- Charmingly Modern
- naMAMAste
- Six Dollars a Day
- What da Health?
- Twice the Twinsanity
- Brandon and On
- French Press
Congratulations on March! That is fantastic!
You are doing great for April so far – and thank goodness we are getting into season for many fruits and veggies. :)
Way to budget!!