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My #1 Tip for Trimming Grocery Spending

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My #1 tip for trimming grocery spending is an easy one: Serve simple, frugal, scheduled meals. If your budget doesn’t allow for that lifestyle, however, then this alternative is sure to please your wallet and your family. Don’t let a small grocery budget make you think you can’t feed your family well!

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What We Ate this Week on our Budget 10.13.17

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Welcome to my weekly series, What We Ate this Week on our Budget. Grocery spending can get out of hand quickly, so I post our weekly menu to ensure that I am planning it weekly. Our monthly grocery budget for my family of 4 is $500. It was a busy night, so we ate leftover baked ziti. Recipe will come soon!

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What We Ate this Week on our Budget 10.20.17

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Welcome to my weekly series, What We Ate this Week on our Budget. Grocery spending can get out of hand quickly, so I post our weekly menu to ensure that I am planning it weekly. Our monthly grocery budget for my family of 4 is $500. Wednesday: leftover night. garden salad. garden salad. garden salad.

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Day 4 of 31 Days to Slash your Grocery Budget: Pantry Challenge

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31 Days to Slash your Grocery Spending. I also found a small container of leftover Chicken & Black Bean Taco Meat. Also bookmark the 31 Days to Slash Your Grocery Spending category page so you can check in daily. Today is Day 4 and your assignment: Pantry Challenge.

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What We Ate This Week on a Budget 02.06.15

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Are you enjoying these “what we ate on a budget” posts? My intent is twofold: to hold me accountable with our grocery spending and to give some ideas and insight into how we eat on a budget. Our budget is currently $500 for my family of four. Let me know your thoughts in the comments.

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What We Ate this Week on our Budget 05.29.15

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This series helps me stay on top of our grocery spending and currently our monthly budget is $500 for my family of 4. Thursday: Another busy night, so I made Burrito Bowls with leftover cooked chicken and taco meat that I had in the freezer. When I have more time for dinner prep, I like to make my own BBQ sauce.

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What We Ate This Week

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If you followed along last year’s Grocery Budget Challenge , you’ll know that my grocery spending ranged from $425 – $500 throughout the year. Selfishly, the reason for this weekly posting is because I tend to stick to a grocery budget when I know I’m going to write about it.

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