Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Saving money on food and my weekly menu plan

Here's my weekly menu plan (a little late posting it)

Saturday:  We had Spaghetti with dinner rolls
Sunday:  We picked up chicken (had a lazy day!)
Monday:  I made Chicken Lettuce Wraps with rice and sauteed spinach
Tuesday:  Panini's with homemade sweet potato fries
Wednesday:  Chicken Catchatore (It's like a chicken stew with carrots, potatoes, red bell pepper, cooked in stewed tomatoes, garlic, ginger, and onion)
Thursday:  Chili with rice (made with ground turkey)
Friday:  Chicken Adobo
Saturday:  Breakfast for dinner

The order of the menu might change, but that's plan as of now...(last week, I was planning on making some of these meals listed, but it never happened, so we'll have it this week)...

I'm trying to think of ways to cut down on the grocery bill, which is why we have panini's (sandwiches) and breakfast for two of the meals.  The goal is to be able to feed the four of us breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks for a week and stay around $60 dollars each week and still buy as much organic as we have been, eat lots of fresh fruits and veggies, and not feel deprived or bored with the meals.  This is a big adjustment because I would normally spend about $100.00 per week without even thinking about it, Larry would eat out for lunch a lot, and we would eat out at least 3-4 meals on the weekend, not to mention that random fast food run every now and then during the week.

We are still not completely there, but we're working on it.  Since we have been couponing and getting so much stuff for FREE or almost FREE, we don't have to worry about a lot of the basic necessities.  We are definitely good on body wash (free), bars of soap (.01 each bar), deodorant (made money on or got them for free), toothbrushes (free or .04 each), floss (made money on them), razors (free or less than a dollar--for Larry's normally $10 each razors), and stain removers (free or .50 each) for the next year!  We'll be good on toilet paper (.80 per 12 pack), paper towels (.39 each roll), toothpaste (free or made money on them) and diapers ($1.00 per pack of pampers) for the next couple of months also!

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