Breakfast:
- chocolate chip muffins
- Baked Oatmeal
- Easy Old Fashioned Pancakes
- Ham & Cheese Corn Muffins (recipe coming soon)
- Speedy Oatmeal (recipe coming soon)
- cereal w/ fruit
- french toast
- Cauliflower Mac & Cheese (recipe coming soon)
- Chicken and Sweet Pepper Quesadillas
- Black Bean Quesadillas (recipe coming soon)
- Tuna Salad Sandwiches
- Peanut Butter and Jam Sandwiches
- Spinach and Black Bean Taquitos
- leftovers
- Garlic Roast Chicken w/ Root Vegetables
- Burritos
- Stromboli made with 100% whole wheat pizza crust
- Asian Chicken Salad
- Sausage and Vegetable Stew
- Slow cooker Meatballs with rice and broccoli
- Spaghetti w/ side salad
- popcorn
- fruit
- vegetables w/ dip
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I was just reading your $50 grocery posts and I am curious when you buy your meat? I think I may have missed a post that explains how you do this. I love the meal planning your doing, it's very simple and very affordable. I am trying to cut back on our grocery bill so this is very helpful.
ReplyDeleteI don't shop on $50 a week anymore. It takes closer to $100/week to meet all of our needs these days. I recently did a $300/4week project that you can find in the "$300 grocery experiment" -it sort of shows my process from the beginning. I recommend checking it out.
ReplyDeleteTo answer your question based on this week's menu, I had a whole chicken in my freezer that was on sale awhile ago. Last week, we had pizza sticks, so I bought pepperoni and there is enough left to use this week in our stromboli. I also bought meatballs on sale last week. This week I bought keilbasa, ground turkey, and bacon on a really good sale. I bought more than is needed this week (I'm not even using the bacon) so that I'll have it in the future. I also bought a turkey ham for the ham and cheese muffins. Depending on next week's sales, I probably won't buy much, if any meat.
To answer the question in general terms, I buy meat in spurts. I am constantly looking for quality marked down meats to stash in the freezer, but I mostly stock up during sales. Some weeks we eat very little meat if the sales are slow and my freezer stash is low. I hope that helps.
I do the exact same thing - buying meat in spurts when it goes on sale! This policy helps my budgeting tremendously!
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