How Low Can You Go??? Menu Challange SATURDAY

Since Ive worked hard all week long on the "How low can you go Menu Challange" I dont feel so bad about the last two days of spending for dinners. Pizza on Friday and Valentines dinner with DH on Saturday.

Thanks you so much everyone who joined in the challange.

Lets do it again soon :)

Have a Great Sunday everyone :)

How Low Can You Go??? Menu Challange WEDNESDAY

NO Grocery store trips for me today but it was really tempting!!


I didnt plan well yesterday (Wednesday).


I went riding in the morning, then worked on homeschool, then I started making phone calls for Life insurance and an appt to get our taxes done and before I knew it late and I forgot to put something in the crockpot for dinner. Sigh.



Since the twins love soup and can eat it every night I made them homemade vegetable soup. Just used what I had so it was easy.8 cups water, beef stock, tomato sauce, can italian stewed tomatoes, carrots, celery, potatoes, & onion. I added some noodles 10 min before it was done. The twins are eatting machines right now and they ate the entire pot of soup!

Break down:

Noodles .25
Celery .25
carrots .50
beef stock .10
stewed tomatoes .75
jar tomato sauce 1.00
potatoes .20
1/2 onion .15

total $3.20

For the hubby and me , I made mash taters, that I topped with groundbeef, onion and gravy, and for side dish I heated a bag of green giant vegetables with sauce. It was really good :)

8 mash taters 1.60 (theres leftovers)
ground beef 2.00
gravy .25
gg veggies .50 ( theres leftovers)
onion .15

total $4.50

Total for dinner $7.70 :)

I think I did pretty good for just throwing dinner together on the fly! :)

How Low Can You Go??? Menu Challange TUESDAY

Did really well today on the challange. NO GROCERY TRIPS! Yippie! LOL

We had cereal & toast for breakfast

Turkey sandwiches for lunch

Bean burritos with sour cream, del taco hot sauce, and cheese
and I made spanish rice for Dinner. Yummers


Juice for drinks

Inexpensive meals all day :)


Last night for a snack I popped popcorn on the stove, drizzled it with real butter and sprinkled cinnamon on the top. We were watching "Monk" and they mentioned that so we thought we would try it. Verdict is still out on this one.

How Low Can You Go??? Menu Challange MONDAY

I went coupon shopping today. (stockup items. I dont count this as grocery shopping:) I did really well, except while out my family wanted me to pick up some drinks. So I ran to Super Target and got frozen juice , my DH some pepsi, and I got some fresh strawberries that I was going to buy later in the week then decided Im just going to buy them now and make them tomorrow. I want to make choc. covered strawberries for Valentines(yummers)

So I spent $15.12 Geesh, the first day and I already fell off the wagon. LOL I knew I would have to go to the store later on in the week for drinks so hopefully this does the trick and we wont have to go till next Sunday :)

Oops forgot to list dinner and the break down:

We had Pepper steak over rice , salad, and lemonade

This is the first time I made this recipe.

http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Slow-Cooker-Pepper-Steak/Detail.aspx

It was good but not sure I'll make it again. There wasent enough for 2nds or left overs which we like to eat the next day for lunch and this meal was on more of the expensive side. I broke it down and Im going to say the recipe, salad, and lemonade cost around $11.00= $2.75 a person

How Low Can You Go??? Menu Challange Starts Today!!

BANG! (thats the starting gun to start running. So run Forrest run! Oops, couldnt help myself )

We're off to a good start this morning. I have my menu planned for at least 4-5 days. Ive been really busy this weekend so I havent had a chance to dig deep in my deep freeze.

So far the dinners I have come up with are:

1. PepperSteak (crockpot), mashtaters, veg

2. Salsa Chicken burritos (crockpot), homemade spanish rice

3. Strog. over rice (crockpot)

4. Faitas (crockpot)

5. Beef Barley soup (crockpot), garlic bread

6. ? mystery

7 ? mystery

We have a ton of rice, lots of boxed items like hamburger helper and theres stuff in the freezer I cant get to until DH moves the stuff on top so Im confident that I can come up with some concoction.

For Breakfast choice of : cereal, cream of wheat, toast, homemade cinnamon rolls, eggs/bacon

For Lunch choice of : turkey sandwiches, top ramen, soup, leftovers, tuna sand.

Drinks choice of : frozen juice, water, ice tea

For Snacks choice of: homemade popcorn, rice krispytreats, soyjoy bars, fruit

I would love to see your menus and hear from you your tips for this week and how you plan to make this challange work for you :)

How low can you go??

Good luck everyone!

Menu Planning Challange Starts Monday Feb 9th

Starting February 9th we're starting a Week of Menu planning on a budget.

How much money can you save by using what you already have in the pantry, freezer, & fridge.

How long can you go without going to the grocery store?

Im planning on using the Sale flyer, Sunday insert coupons and what I already have on hand to do this challange.

If I can do it, you can do it. I would love it if you all joined in.

How low can you go??

Sign Mr. Linky below so we can go to your blog and see how your making this challange work for you :)