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Well… We are coming up to the end of our spending month and have definitely came to end the end of our grocery budget in fact we are now a smidgen over. Our budget for the month was $550 and as of August 11 we had spent $539.94 of that amount leaving a whopping $10.06 available.
On Friday I made a quick stop at the grocery store picking up butter, ice cream, lettuce, mushrooms and grapes for a total of $14.94. On Saturday Joe, Christopher and I went to Subway and spent $12.86. For a new spending total of $567.74 over budget by $17.74 and still a week left of this budget time. We are still adjusting to having two additonal people (my oldest daughter and her SO) so I expected to be a bit over.
In a few days this month will be wrapped up and I can start fresh. I suspect I’ll spend a bit more so I’ll post again if that does happen.
>How do you do it, I can't even imagine trying to keep us on a food budget, I would blow it every-time I went to the grocery store. But hey good for you if it works!
>I do tend to blow it most months too but I'm hopeful that one of these days I'll make my budget 🙂
>I finally broke down my budget into minute increments. We're trying to keep to $300 a month for the 3 of us. With no grains yet – it's tricky! Breaking it down to individual items or stores really helped though. Milk is a set amount, as is beef, but I figured out how much I'm allowed to spend on other meats, on butter, on fresh produce, etc. Then I made a rough menu plan for the whole month. It's paid off! Aside from some bulk items I purchased and a couple extra times eating out, we are meeting our goal this month. Yay!
>Jen,
That is wonderful!
We 'mostly' do that too. For milk we have our cowshare which is a set amount. We do a beef CSA which is a set amount (and the only beef we buy each month), I usually budget $200 for Azure Standard, $50 for dining out and whatever is left goes to farmers market and local grocery purchases. My issue always seems to be dining out. It is our huge weekness. This month I plan to a do a more detailed menu and shopping plan in hopes in getting my budget better under control.
$300 doing grain free would be such a challenge. My oldest dd who is staying the summer asked me if tonight if we are having meat. She is wanting to start a paleo thing but since we do not eat meat every night that is a challenge for her.