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.

Walgreens

Retail total $44.52, Paid $4.80, Saved $39.72

Food total:  $.35

Items Purchased:

1 Mucinex Nasal Spray
1 Halloween Sack
1 Bag Hershey Candy
2 Coffee Mate Creamers
2 Glade 4 oz Candles
2 Nivea for Men Body Washes

1 Blistex Medicated Ointment

3 Campbell's Mushroom Soup

1 Oreo Brownie Cake

Schnucks

Retail total $38.82, paid $18.82, Saved $20.00

Food Total:  $18.82

Items Purchased:

2 Hot Pocket Sideshots

6 Betty Crocker Fruit Roll-Ups

1 Bag Santitas Chips

4 Packages Idahoan Mashed Potatoes

1 Bag Johnathon Apples

4 Yakisoba Noodles

6 Boxes Mrs. T's Perogies

1/2 Gallon Schnucks Brand 1% Milk

Wal-Mart

Retail total $25.70, paid $9.26, Saved $16.44
Food Total:  $2.30

Items Purchased:
 
4 Beneful Dog Food

1 7lb Bag Feline Pine 

1 3.5 lb Bag Purina Cat Chow

3 Store Brand Loaves Bread

1 Box Success Rice

6 Renuzit Air Fresheners

4 Gain Dish Soap

Food Giant (no picture)

Retail total $7.45, paid $7.45, Saved $0
Food Total:  $0

Items Purchased:
 
1 17.6 lb  Bag Dad's Lamb & Rice Dog Food

Total Retail:  $116.49

Total Spent:  $40.33

Total Saved:  $76.16

Food Total:  $21.47

This means that we *should* have over $6.00 left, but I took the kids for an after school snack and we had a trip to Aldi to buy salad mix for a dinner we took to a family that just had a baby at church.  The rest of the "loose change" goes into our jar here at home.  So my envelope is actually empty :(

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

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