Living on a Budget: Groceries $40 for 4

Thankful for all of my readers checking in with me and those who asked why I didn’t give my Groceries $40 for 4 update last week. Since I was out of town visiting family during the girls Spring and Easter Break my husband was given the $40 cash for our groceries.  He was good about not spending more than the $40 that I gave him, however, the receipts and pictures didn’t happen.  He is the better cook in our family but it just isn’t as exciting cooking for one.   I came back this week late on Tuesday evening (otherwise known as very early Wednesday morning) and hit the ground running with appointments, work, and getting the kids back in school.  I did not have an opportunity to go through the fridge, pantry or shop the sales so I just bought the obvious items that were missing this week.  Hopefully by this weekend I will have a grasp of what we need and have a few moment to look at the ads for next week.  I will get back into the routine schedule soon!   Below are my grocery shopping adventures for the week:

Groceries from Bi-Lo:

• $8.97 at Bi-Lo for 3 gallons of Milk ($2.99 each)

I am excited to see how next week goes with our Groceries $40 for 4 budget since I have been gone for two weeks.  This week I only had time to do was restock the milk so I was able to save extra grocery cash.  Thankful for a husband who honors $40 grocery budget!  It makes me smile knowing he carried around that cash the entire time I was gone and had to make decisions on how to spend it as well.

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.