December 2009 $25 Grocery Challenge

**Domestic Gal** · 12-27-2009, 09:32 PM

Everyone is doing GREAT!!
Good Job everyone!!

**nuisance26** · 12-28-2009, 08:33 AM

~Spent $14 getting some foods for our birthdays. Got:

2 ice cream
2 natural pb
2 lasagna noodles
box puff pastry
pack dried beef

I'm now at $244.
I'm trying to decide if I should include the take-out we got this week. We rarely get food out and if we do it comes out of our pocket money. But these meals were planned into the menu as birthday choices. I probably should add them. It was $50 for three meals. So I'm now at $294.~

**Domestic Gal** · 12-29-2009, 02:44 PM

Spent $35.69 this week. Only used 1 coupon for .50 this week.

Got
4 gallons milk (hoping this lasts 2 weeks)
3# apples
bbq sauce
turkey lunchmeat
choc. syrup
3# onions
2.41# bananas
cinn. raisin bread
2 rump roasts ( could of done without these but DH want to make Jerky)
steele cut oats
quart of buttermilk
pint of strawberry milk
4 bags hershey kisses ( girls gotta have her chocolate fix, plus I use them for baking)
4 pks peeps DH favorite

Did not get much at all this week but did not need much either.
Need to get DD some yogurt before she goes back to school on Monday.

**AmyBoz** · 12-29-2009, 02:51 PM

Okay, I'm rethinking my participation in this. Not that I don't want to participate, but that I am going to adjust my goal.

Originally, I had said $25 a week, per person. With 5 people, in a month of 4 weeks, that's $500. NONSENSE! I can't spend that kind of money on groceries this year! No way, no how. Even with ds2 still in Pull-Ups, that just feels overwhelmingly too much for my taste.

So, I'm going to bring it down to $20 per person, per week. That brings me to $100 per week, which I think is still a lot, but in weeks when we need Pull-Ups, it will cover. I may wind up looking at it by the week, but then looking at the average for the month and see if it came to $20 per person, per week.

By years end, I'd be thrilled if I could get it down to $15 per week per person, or even $10. Of course, a lot of that rides on the little guy.

We'll see how it goes. For now, though...$20 it is.

**pollypurebred39** · 12-29-2009, 03:03 PM

Amy, you can do it. We do, $10 is not an unreasonable number. I shop a produce wholesalers and buy only what meat is on sale. I purchase bulk flours, rice etc, and work it into the $10 per person budget.

**qsaver704** · 12-29-2009, 09:36 PM

Originally Posted by pollypurebred39

Amy, you can do it. We do, $10 is not an unreasonable number. I shop a produce wholesalers and buy only what meat is on sale. I purchase bulk flours, rice etc, and work it into the $10 per person budget.

What a goal. I hope to get here some time. I need to master $25 a week first.

**nuisance26** · 12-30-2009, 08:31 AM

~One last trip to Aldi to finish out the month. Spent $28 and got:
bread
tomatoes
romaine hearts
12 oz coffee
crackers
olives
5 lb sugar
milk
2 salad dressing
tortilla chips
2 cocoa
graham crackers
jelly
12 pk soda
3 lbs bananas

I said in my last post that I was at $294 so with this I should be at $322 but my financial binder says $352 so I must have forgot to post a receipt or two on this thread.
That makes my total for food in 2009, $2493. That's an average of $208 a month, $12 per person per week(for Amy's benefit). I think with a garden in 2010 I can get us down to $10 per week.

~

**qsaver704** · 12-30-2009, 04:48 PM

I made one last trip for the year. I went ahead and bought some items to begin the new year with. Hopefully that means I can skip grocery shopping for the first week on 2010. It would be interesting to see what I spend in a year. I will work on that in 2010. I spent $54 today (Amy that included $40 for diapers, I feel your pain).

diapers
boneless skinless chicken breast (didn't need, but 1.65 a pound)
buns
country ham (new years lunch)
free HBA pads and shampoo
bananas