Total dollar amount of food consumed this week: $26.68
Well, I made it under $30 for consumption for the week . . .
of course, I had a stomach bug yesterday that caused me to eat nothing but a
piece of toast. I’m guessing that next
week I will hit almost exactly that $30 mark.
I actually took pictures of every single meal I ate this
week. Then when I sat down to edit the
pictures, I thought, “Do I really want to edit 35 pictures of my food? Would people really want to see that?” I mean, really, do you need to see a picture
of my cereal and tea each morning (my breakfasts are almost always the same:
cereal or oatmeal with coffee or tea).
Anyway, I decided against that and I will only share one picture per day with you.
Here’s what I ate:
Monday
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Breakfast
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Snack
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Lunch
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Snack
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Dinner
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Total
for the day
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Cereal & tea
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0.46
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Bagel & Cream Cheese
|
.51
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Hot Pocket & Kale
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0.94
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Chips & Salsa
|
.65
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Salmon, Rice, Kale, cucumber & tomato salad
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2.31
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4.87
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Those of you who knew me growing up may be shocked that I
made, let alone ate, salmon. But I did,
and it tasted delicious! This is one of
the only ways I will eat fish. I got the
idea from Pinterest. You just put the
salmon in tin foil with some butter, lemons and salt & pepper and then bake
it. Mmmm!
Tuesday
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Breakfast
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Snack
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Lunch
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Snack
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Dinner
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Total for the day
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Cereal & tea
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0.46
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Protein Shake
|
.88
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Salad with tuna
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1.97
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Free sliders!
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0
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Leftover Pasta
|
.65
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3.96
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Wednesday
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Breakfast
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Snack
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Lunch
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Snack
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Dinner
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Total for the day
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Cereal & tea
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0.46
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Bagel & Cream Cheese
|
.51
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Leftover pasta
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0.65
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1 cup milk
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0.18
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Pot Roast with salad
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2.66
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4.58
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Thursday
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Breakfast
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Snack
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Lunch
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Snack
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Dinner
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Total for the Day
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Cereal & tea
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0.46
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1 Peach, wheat thins
& cheese
|
1.04
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Salad with chicken
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2.05
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1 cup milk
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0.18
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Leftover Salmon
|
2.75
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6.48
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Unfortunately, my newfound appreciation for fish does not
extend to leftover fish. Blech. Neither G nor I seemed to like it very
much and we ended up throwing most of it out. But I still have to account for it
as though I ate the entire thing. I
would think that maybe it’s what set my stomach off on Saturday, but (knock on
wood) G seems fine and she ate it too.
Friday
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Breakfast
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Snack
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Lunch
|
Snack
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Dinner
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Total for the day
|
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Cereal & tea
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0.46
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Bagel & Cream Cheese
|
.51
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1 Hot Pocket &
Kale
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1.1
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Mocha
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0.15
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Frozen Pizza
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1.25
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3.59
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I think the hardest part about this challenge will not be
the grocery budget. It will be not eating out at all for an entire month. On Friday, I really wanted to stop by
Starbucks and get my favorite: Caramel Machiatto. But instead, I made myself a
mocha when I got home from work. Now
that I see the cost difference between what Starbucks charges and what it costs
me to make it, I think I will be able to talk myself out of going to Starbucks
a little more often! (though I will admit, it’s nice not to have to clean up
after myself)
Saturday I was
sick as a dog. I literally ate ½ a piece
of toast and a couple sips of chicken broth.
My grand total for the day was $0.18.
There are no pictures to share with you because it was that meager.
Sunday
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Breakfast
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Snack
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Lunch
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Snack
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Dinner
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Total for the day
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Cereal & tea
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0.46
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Chicken soup
|
0.5
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Alphabet soup
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0.5
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Seaweed
|
1
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Homemade Mac N Cheese w/squash
|
.56
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3.02
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I was so excited when I woke up this morning and I was
hungry! Of course, it was also 5am and G
was ready to be up and play . . . why do babies wake up so early? Anyway, I had some cereal and it went down
ok, so then by 10am, I was hungry again and decided to try some chicken
soup. For lunch I had some Alphabet soup
(my favorite kind of soup). By then my
insides were starting to feel much better – as you can see by my snack of
seaweed followed by dinner of homemade mac n cheese. (topped with squash
instead of breadcrumbs) I don’t think I’ve ever made mac n cheese from scratch before! It was really tasty, but I definitely want to
make a few tweaks to the recipe for the next time I make it. I will share the recipe with you in a
different post as this one is quite long enough already.
As I said earlier, I don’t think the issue with this
challenge for me, will be the grocery bill. It will be resisting the temptation to go grab lunch
somewhere or stop at Starbucks. But
that’s what this exercise is for, right?
To reign in my current spending, and honestly, eating out is probably my
biggest budget weakness.
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