A month worth of meals, yummy.

 Here's my basic meal plan for the next month. I had some of the ingredients on hand already (like some cream-of-wheat, tortillas, some bread, some meats) so my cost was just for my missing ingredients, All-in-all, my grocery bill for the whole month was $150! That's about $50 less than I normally spend :) 

The majority of the grocery bill was for all the fruit :)

I think it went pretty good :)

I didn't plan for a couple days here & there, because those are the days that my kids aren't home (they go to their bio-dad's those weekends), & my husband and I don't usually do lots of cooking on those weekends.

Breakfasts: cream-of wheat, breakfast burritos, Potatoes & chorizo, French toast, Omelets, cereal

Lunch: PB & banana, grilled cheese, PB&J, homemade pizza, Quesadillas,  CF mac & cheese, sandwiches

Snacks: bananas, apples & caramel, grapes, fruit smoothies, animal crackers, oranges, crackers & cheese

Dinner: 

18th: Bow tie Pasta

19th: Tacos

20th: Enchiladas

21st: Crock-pot cream-of chicken

22nd: Goulash

23rd: Breakfast for dinner

24th:Crock-pot Italian chicken and potatoes

25th: Kafta

26th: Hamburgers

27th: Butter pasta and gravy meat

28th: Crock-pot Swiss chicken

29th: Fajitas

30th: 

31st:

1st: Sweet & sour chicken

2nd: Frito Pie

3rd: Bow tie Pasta

4th: Baked Teriyaki chicken

5th: Sloppy Joes

6th:

7th:

8th: Meatloaf

9th: Burritos

10th” Spaghetti Pie

11th: Fajitas

12th: Chicken enchiladas

13th: Breakfast for dinner

14th: Penne Noodles & kielbasa 

* We normally have 5-8 people to feed because my mom, sister & nephew eat over a lot (we do lots of big family dinners)

That's $0.63/day per person (for 8 people)!

October already?

I seems like summer had just barely started & now here we are in October. The weather is really cooling off. This week I hope to unpack the kiddo's clothing from the storage shed and getting the summer clothing ready for storage. I also hope to price replacement pieces for the dryer today after my husband gets home from work =)


Everyone has had a horrible cold lately so there isn't much to deep cleaning today, just a bit of tidying up today (the kiddos have been slowing down too so it's just daily messes like dishes & stuff), but it seems like if I stop and rest then I'll be playing catch up for a week! 


Thankfully, I prepared a weeks worth of meals over this past weekend while my babies were visiting their dad. So it is just thaw/defrost/ reheat the meals this week, so that should ease the stress in the kitchen too =)