article thumbnail

Day 14 of 31 Days to Slash your Grocery Spending: Weekly Recap

Family Balance Sheet

This Week’s Dinners: Sunday: We went to our favorite local pizza/sub shop for lunch with my parents and grandmother. We all brought home leftovers and that’s what we ate for dinner. Also bookmark the 31 Days to Slash Your Grocery Spending category page so you can check in daily.

article thumbnail

WIS, WWA | all Safeway

The Frugal Girl

What I Spent So I went to pull together my grocery spending for the week and I realized that it’s all quick trips to Safeway. Monday I had a snacky dinner earlier, and then when Zoe came home from her evening shift at work, she had a frozen pizza. Tuesday I made chicken quesadillas and we had fruit on the side.

Safeway 207
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

WIS, WWA | $149 and I’m not pressed

The Frugal Girl

I can only be pressed about so many things at one time, and right now, my grocery spending is not it. My main goal is to mostly cook at home, and other than that, I’m not stressing for now. Chiquita is rarely stressed, except for when I am too slow about dishing up her salmon pate. ?

Press 204
article thumbnail

8 Action Steps for a Frugal February!

Family Balance Sheet

Groceries is the easiest budget category TO GET OUT of control and the easiest budget category TO control. To reign your grocery spending in, you must plan all of your meals. Spend Frugal February planning your meals from food that you already have in your kitchen, refrigerator, and freezer. Say that 5 times!)

February 130
article thumbnail

What We Ate this Week on our Budget 05.29.15

Family Balance Sheet

This series helps me stay on top of our grocery spending and currently our monthly budget is $500 for my family of 4. We dined on pizza, carrots and dip, and Girl Scout cookies for dessert. Monday: Sadly, all trips must come to an end and we spent several hours on Memorial Day traveling home.

Budgeting 100
article thumbnail

How to Save Money on Groceries

Family Balance Sheet

As my kids have grown into a teen and tween who eat as much as adults, I spend about $700/month–this includes anything I buy at the grocery store, so it includes paper and cleaning products. I’ve found some great deals in the past on many products that are either staples in my home or just plain necessities.