Living on a Budget: Groceries $40 for 4

The phrase “it’s a wild….wild….week” (kind of a spin off the phrase it’s a mad mad world) kept going through my head this week.  I don’t see life slowing down for the next….well few months at least.  Here is my weekly update on our Groceries $40 for 4.

Groceries from  Save A Lot | RiteAid

Save A Lot | RiteAid Groceries:

• $11.03 at Save A Lot | RiteAid for 1 gallon Milk, 1 bag Cinnamon Raisin Bagels (on clearance), 2 trays Cube Steak (on clearance), 2 packs Sliced Cheese, and 1 bag fresh Carrots.

Groceries from Ingles

Ingles Groceries:

• $20.20 at Ingles for 2 bags Apples (clearance), 1 bag shredded Mozzarella Cheese (32 oz), 1 bag shredded Mexican Cheese (32 oz), 1 container Butter spread, 1 large container fresh Spinach (clearance), and 1 container fresh Mushrooms (clearance).  (All the items were on sale or clearance.)

We were able to stock up on a couple great items this week.  It was a busy week so I didn’t get a chance to shop around much, it was a maintenance week for us.  I hope fill you in soon on some of the exciting stuff going on in our family! 🙂 Thanks for hanging in there with me while life is spinning around me!

This week I spent $31.23 on groceries.  I was under on my budgeted amount for the week, yay!  I was happy to find fresh produce and meat on sale that we can use for several meals.  I hope that next week is better week, back to normal, and we can come under budget!

It is my goal to give you regular updates on this budget section so you can celebrate the good weeks with me and thump me on the bad weeks!  As always you are welcomed to join the journey with me.  I would love to hear your story and how you are doing too.  The purpose of our family doing this it to watch our grocery spending while allowing us to feed our family, enjoy life, share with others, and yet stay on track with our budget.

Living on a Budget is a series of ways our family uses a budget to help keep us accountable with our finances.  Life doesn’t always go as planned.  We have used some of the ideas I will be sharing for years while others are ones we are just starting to implement as we continue finding ways to be creative and have fun with what we have been given.  Having a plan in place allows us the freedom to be smart with what we have been given, get more creative when it is a tight (week, month, year or a season) and when necessary live a much more simplified life.  A budget helps us stay on track so we have more opportunities to enjoy the many blessings we have been given as well as share what we have with others.  There is so much more to life than having all the stuff.  We may not have the newest or greatest items in our house, we drive used cars, and wear hand-me-down clothing…..however, if our family is taken care of and have love for each other and others we have more than all the riches in the world.