Project: Food Budget Weekly total: $22.72
My healthy budget goal is to eat seasonal, home-cooked meals while sticking to a $400 $350 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.
April – Month Six, Week Five
This week, I’ve spent $22.72, bringing my monthly total to $356.04.
OMG, I was *this* close to being UNDER my new $350 monthly goal, but DH convinced me to get Chinese take-out Friday night. I had some extra cash we received as a gift, so after I applying that toward our bill, it only amounted to $8.
Yeah, it was another “impulsive” buy, but it made DH happy and I was only $6 over budget. Pretty darned good I have to say!
Monthly Totals:
Dining Out: $53.63
Entertaining: $5.57
Groceries: $287.82
Vitamins/supplements: $9.02
May – Month Seven, Week One-ish
New month! I’ve spent $21.17, leaving $328.83 for the rest of May.
Dining Out: $0
Entertaining: $0
Gardening: $1.69
Groceries: $19.48 (includes a small $ adjustment to my Meat CSA balance)
Spending Details
Market Basket (4/26) $14.72: Bag o’ oranges, broccoli crowns, red grapefruit, bananas, Planters peanuts, sharp cheddar, (2) large cans Hunts tomatoes.
Market Basket (5/2) $18.70: Olivia’s value pack spinach, mushrooms, 5lb bag o’ vidalia onions, (2) oranges, (2) grapefruit, broccoli crowns, bananas.
Week of Meals
I haven’t posted much lately on actual “meal planning”, but it’s been working pretty well. No, I’m not a meal planning machine, but I keep a simply meal plan “note” on my iPad w/ 7-10 days of dinners, & it really helps keep me on track.
My meals are not set in stone, so I can easily swap if my food mood changes. The cool thing is my meal plan note is also synced on my iPhone, so if I ever need to refer to it while grocery shopping, it’s ready.
- Thursday: Baked chicken enchiladas
- Friday: Take-out Chinese food
- Saturday: Chicken soup with barley (carrots, celery, (frozen) peppers)
- Sunday: Bread pizza with salsa, and feta
- Monday: Rice, lentil, broccoli, egg, cheese bake
- Tuesday: Potato onion pancakes & carrot/butternut soup
- Wednesday: early dinner/late lunch at parents’
Want to Join the Project Food Budget?
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Here’s who else is budgeting this week:
- Emily Levenson
- Dairy-Free Cooking
- Test Kitchen Tuesday
- Red Pen Mama
- Fit Flexitarian
- Warm As Pie
- Katy Rank Lev
- 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?
- French Press
- Veggie Meal Maker
Nicely done!! I think $6 over considering the circumstances is fantastic – and you need a treat every now and then.
Brilliant idea about keeping your meal plan on your iPad and synced with your phone. What app are you using for that? Just the notepad? Or is there something easier? We don’t have an iPad yet but more and more I think we *need* one, as my hubby spends hours watching YouTube videos on his iPhone. Now, with this idea, I have major justification. Hahah!
Happy May!
Thabks Angela!
Yes, I’m using plain ole Notes. Very primitive but it works. I have my notes set up to sync with my gmail acct and it syncs to both but I think if you use iCloud it works that way too.