Grocery Shopping and Meal Planning September/October

Ok so here we go, another month. 

Baby came August 26th, so little Elijah was 2 1/2 weeks old when we went.. and he wasn't a fan at all of this grocery shopping stuff.  But he didn't do too bad for being so tiny.  

We were able to reuse some recipes since we had freezer meals, plus we also have a church preaching conference in October that will put us in the city for basically 3 straight days..  We might be making a trip back to Aldi for some snacks and things to bake with to help with potlucks during the conference... We'll see what they need vs what I have.  

I do have some diet challenges for me we need to figure out.  Elijah is having issues with dairy and tomato ( well.. one or the other), so I have to quit both of those for a week or two.. That gets the majority through my system and his system.. If you eat a lot of dairy, it can take at least 3 weeks to get it through, then another 3 for the baby...  But since I've been cutting back since July for dairy, it's not that bad. So..  I bought some extra sandwich meat and when we have  a meal that has cheese I'll eat a sandwich and salad instead.  

So.  The meal plan.  

Pizza (Hawaiian, cheese, pepperoni, chicken alfredo)
Tator Tot Casserole (this will be in the form of freezer meals for Sundays)
Pork loin and veggies
Garlic Knot Pizza
Breaded Tilapia and veggies (we found a coupon for fish breading)
Simple Mexican chicken and rice
Pineapple Chicken Tenders, peppers and pineapple
Chicken Fajitas
Teriyaki chicken and potatoes

For breakfasts we have eggs, bacon, cereal, cinnamon rolls, monkey bread, country hash, omelets..  The bigger meals we do on Dennis' typical days off (Wednesday, Saturday, Sunday).  Sunday is our cinnamon roll/monkey bread day with omelet.   

Lunches we'll have leftovers, peanut butter jelly, chicken sandwiches with avocado, cucumbers and fruit.   

Simple things, but filling.  

So our shopping went pretty awesome.   We reused some of the meals from last month, so that helped the budget a bit..  Although we did get some treats based on coupons we found... so how much it helped the budget?.. lol  It's good to  get treats sometimes, though.   We were also able to cash in a gift card through the Walmart Savings Catcher-which gave us $10, though we had to use the phone to pay which made receipt scanning a little interesting for the apps.. 


Sam's.. We spent $292.81, saving $14 on the instant savings.  
Aldi.. we spent $211.93, we did grab a new pizza stone ($10). 
Walmart.. we spent $170, we did some extra from coupons.. candy bars mostly.. And grabbed some baby items.  We saved $9.50 with the coupons..   

So in total we spent $676.74.  That's about $170 a week for 3 meals and a snack for the week for 6 people...  But that number also includes household.


Have a good week!

~Tabitha