For the month of October, I am taking part in the stock your shelves October challenge (#stocktober.) This is a challenge by Jordan Page over at fun cheap or free. Each week, I take my grocery budget (I shop weekly) and chop it in half! My family of five has a monthly budget of $500 a month ($125 a week.) Beck is on formula so I use his $100 on food for him which leaves me $400 a month ($100 a week.) Half of my weekly grocery budget goes towards groceries for the week including things like laundry supplies, paper towels, diapers, and personal care items. The other half goes towards stocking up on those items. You can stock up on anything - short term food storage, long term food storage, toothpaste, shampoo, diapers etc. At first, I thought a $50 budget for my weekly groceries was impossible! However, this is a challenge and challenges aren't meant to be easy. I decided to give it a go and try to stretch myself and my budget.
With that being said here is how I did with my first week :
the success of this challenge begins with a good meal plan. More expensive dinners like steak, lasagna, and roast were out. It was time to simplify. I went with easier (yet still yummy) dinners.
On the right is our weekly grocery shopping; luckily, I had just stocked up on some bigger items so just needed food (not pictured : milk and eggs.)
I came in just under budget which any other week would have been great; however, during stockober, I just keep thinking about how I could use that forty eight cents!
$99.52
My goal for stocking up was start stocking up for the holidays, baking, and winter.
For my stock up items I got 2 Martinelli's, 2 Pillsbury biscuits, ingredients to make chili again, 4 cans of soup, 3 bags of chocolate chip cookies, 5 packets of pasta, 3lbs of ground turkey and another package of chicken.
Overall I am really happy with how this week went!
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