Weekly Budget Review - Are we eating for $1 Per Day?

Time for our weekly budget review!!  As a family, we have agreed to the challenge of $1 per day per person for a food allowance.  In our family, this equals $28.00 per week to be spent only on food!  Are we eating for $1 per day?

We budget $10.00 each week above our food budget for soda - Justin and I are addicted!!  We're a couple of serious Dew drinkers (even if it is the store brand!!).  This is the only product that we specifically say that we're going to spend above our $28.00 budget for food.

All other areas have their own amounts - toiletries, cleaning, pets, paper products, etc.


Sorry this post is a little late this week, its been busy here, and we have company staying right now (AND its Halloween!).

Walgreens

Retail total $39.80, Paid $2.69, Saved $37.11

Food total:  $1.26

Items Purchased:

3 Bugles Sweet & Salty

4 Bags Chex Mix

1 Royal Gelatin

2 Mentos Gums

2 Walgreen's Toilet Paper

1 Colgate Sensitive

1 Contac Cold & Flu

1 Scotch Tape

Wal-Mart Trip #1

Retail total $29.17, paid $12.62, Saved $16.55

Food Total:  $4.44

Items Purchased:

1 Green Giant Frozen corn

1 Hostess Donuts

1 Progresso Chicken Soup

1 Good Earth Meal

1 Box Fiber One Bars

1 3.5 bag Cat Chow

1 7lb Feline Pine

1 Box Success Rice

1 Package Kotex Liners

1 Package Turkey Drumsticks

1 Loaf Bread

3 Store Brand Soda

3 Diet Store Brand Soda

Country Mart

Retail total $21.79, paid $12.79, Saved $9.00
Food Total:  $12.79

Items Purchased:

2 Packages Chi-Chi's Tortillas

2 Store Brand Biscuits

6 Williams Taco Seasoning

4 Tonys Meatball Pockets

2 Tonys Cheese Pizzas

2 Tonys Supreme Pizzas

1 Smoked Sausage Links

2 Bar-S Bolognas

1 Package Pork Chops
 

Food Giant

Retail total $16.60, paid $10.99, Saved $5.61

Food Total:  $10.99

Items Purchased:

2 Whole Fryer Hens

2 Pork Cutlets

1 Blue Bonnet Spread

1 Imperial Butter

2 Mt. Dew 2-Liters

2 Diet Mt. Dew 2-Liters

Wal-Mart #2 (No Picture)

Retail total $13.48, paid $7.48, Saved $6.00
Food Total:  $7.48

Items Purchased:

1/2 Gallon Prairie Farms 1% Milk

1 Container Quaker Quick Oats

3 Kraft Taco Mix Shredded Cheese

2 Kraft Colby/Jack Shredded Cheese 

Total Retail:  $120.84

Total Spent:  $46.57

Total Saved:  $74.27

Food Total:  $36.96 (overbudget, yes, I know!!)

Are you eating for $1 Per Day this week?  Tell me about it!