Thursday, October 13, 2011

$107 a Month?

Budget got cut again, our food money for the month is now $107 a month for the 6 of us. We will be heading to the food bank for sure this month! I am very grateful three of the kids are able to eat breakfast and lunch for free at school, so maybe this is do-able. As you can see, I am trying to talk myself into this. We have plenty of the following, (although I am not sure how to coordinate all of it into something edible for a whole month)


  • 31 jars of spaghetti sauce

  • 21 jars of peanut butter


  • grape jelly


  • 25 cans of refried beans


  • apple butter, apple slices (frozen)


  • flour and baking items like yeast, baking soda and baking powder


  • eggs


  • white rice (don't judge, it was really on sale)


  • a variety of mushroom soup and chicken broth


There is a variety of other canned things I have, but mainly just odds and ends really. I priced out a bunch of things at Wally's World and then at our local store, so I am up to date on the current prices of most things we need, but just don't know what to buy. Other than meat, of course, which would probably just take up the whole $107 right there. Not much else to say about this.

2 comments:

  1. Ouch. How long are you going to be on such tight rations? Refried beans are tasty on toast. Get to that food bank. Our city has a daily bread program - I'd be looking at ANY way I could bring a little more food into the house.

    I've been there, and it's tough.

    And now ... I have a new blog to investigate. :D

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  2. Hello! Not sure on the duration, but am open to anything! the beans on toast sounds yummy, I'll try that for lunch tommorrow. Feel free to investigate, I can use any advice you can think of. Thank you!

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