Project: Food Budget: Week 7

Budget: 70$

Actual Spent: 113.43$

Bought:

• bananas
• red pepper
• green cabbage
• red onion
• jalapenos
• limes
• pineapple
• guacamole
• rolls
• bread
• burrito-sized tortillas
• frozen stuffed peppers
• riblets and mashed potato meal
• brisket and mashed potato meal
• frozen sausage rigatoni
• Domino's pizza
• koolaid

Obviously this week was not our best week. Not only did we spend way over thanks to eating out, but we also went back to eating premade food from the grocery store.

CSA: The salad mix, turnip greens, and garlic greens have made for delicious salads all week.

Meals eaten:

• Peanut butter & honey sammies
• Steakum sammies (with homemade sauerkraut)
• BBQ burritos
• Fajita burritos
• Frozen stuffed peppers
• Frozen sausage rigatoni
• Domino's pizza

What we learned:

1. Eating out unexpectedly is not good for our budget. We have decided to schedule one dining out experience each week to allow ourselves the luxury. We will try to make it a real restaurant and not fast food (and not always pizza) and we will try to split a meal instead of each getting one.
2. Buying frozen pre-made food is practically the same as eating out. I want to get back to eating healthy home-cooked meals. I need to come back to the fundamentals of meal planning.

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Participating blogs:

• Emily Levenson
• Maria Marz
• Veggie Converter
• Dairy-Free Cooking
• Motor City Girl in the Steel City
• Veggie Burgher
• The Happy Cactus
• The Vegetarian Salmon
• Test Kitchen Tuesday
• Newly Vegan
• Always Sick & Tired
• Veggie on the Cheap
• MeloMeals: Vegan For $3.33 A Day
• A Guy, a Girl, and a Dinner Plate (Yours truly!)
• The Amateur Low Carb Flexitarian
• The Veggie Life
• Caroline Cain: Holistic Health