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Here are the goals that I had set for myself for 2011 and how I am doing with them so far:

1) Keep Grocery Budget to $100/month-I have not been keeping to this amount. A big part of this is that I have not been fixing meals and eating at home a lot. But, recently my boyfriend...now fiancee has moved in with me and is preparing dinners. I am absolutely in heaven! This has just been happening for the past week, so we need to sit down and plan what we are eating each week and buy ...

I want to make it a point to keep my blog updated this year. So I can keep track of how I am doing with my goals for the year.

I had my first grocery shopping trip of the year. I spent a total of $36. I bought all the groceries I need for the week, plus toothpaste, tissues, and trashbags. I bought 4 tubes of toothpaste because there was a promotion for $4 off/4 Proctor & Gamble products. I should have no excuse to eat out this week. I'm going to try to eat all meals at home ...

So, 2011 has started and it is a new year and I have new goals for myself. I am newly single, but have a boyfriend....so I'm not totally on my own. He is sure teaching me a lot about self-control and budgeting. He made up an elaborate budget linked to a ledger so that I can track my expenses better. I'm excited to be using it.

Here are some things that I'd like to do this year:

1) Keep Grocery Budget to $100/month
2) Keep Eating Out Budget to $100/month ...

...to bust my eating out budget!! Can we say serious issues!!!

Here's a rundown on the eating out activity for December:

12/1: Mr Goodcents $5.03-dinner-sub sandwich, chips, drink (could have eaten at home before class)
12/2: Spangles $5.77-breakfast-breakfast bowl, large drink (this was unecessary)
12/2: Old Chicago-$27.00-dinner-Fish & Chips, 2 Captain/Pepsi's (met a friend)
12/3: Samurai-$8.46-lunch-teriyaki steak meal, drink (bad day at ...

It's only 5 days into December and I'm doing okay with my goals.

I have spent $64.78 of $100.00 of my eating out budget. I would have spent $12.00 less, but I printed out the wrong Groupon...one I had already redeemed.

I have spent $21.85 of $100.00 of my grocery budget. I have been doing a freezer cleanout as well, so that will help with my grocery budget this month. I have a lot of stuff in the freezer and the pantry that needs to be eaten up. By eating up that ...