Monday, January 3, 2011

$100 Challenge

We recently welcomed in the New Year and my husband and I started talking about how much money we spend on food in a month and at $500/month we decided it's time to try to cut back!

The basic rules of the challenge are:
1) You have $25/person to spend per week. This leaves our family of 3 with $75 per week for groceries.
2) The $25 includes food only and not such things as food wrap or ziplock bags.
3) You can use existing foods that you already had in your pantry or fridge and these do not count towards your weekly grocery costs. (But should be recorded as such)
4) You can use coupons, points, and gift cards to reduce the cost of your groceries.

So we went shopping on Sunday and the total cost came to $12.19 after taxes. Pretty good start! However, we used a gift card so that helped significantly!

Here's what we got:
3 Cans Campbell's Chunky Soup (they do have some gluten free offerings check labels!) $4.47
Canada Dry Gingerale (a splurge) 2.49
Corn Flakes (Not gluten free - these were for my husband) 2.99
Cheddar Cheese brick 5.99
Extra Large Eggs 12 pk 2.69
Coffee 9.49
Lean Ground Beef 17.73
Chicken Legs (10 legs) 6.29

So far I have these ideas:
. . Breakfast will be cereal, fruit and cheese; Dinners will be recipes and so far lunch is completely up in the air.

I'll have to let you know how it all turned out for this week on Friday or Saturday! Stay tuned!




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