$100 Budget Weekly Menu (for six people including three teens): Menu planning saves money!
See what we’re eating this week with a $100 grocery budget. (Some items were purchased in previous weeks in the $100 budget and are marked with an asterisk.)
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*Items marked with an asterisk were purchased in previous weeks in the $100 Budget and are in the pantry, fridge or freezer.
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BREAKFAST
French Toast, bacon*
Cereal with milk x2
Scrambled Eggs, toast
Oatmeal with cinnamon and raisins
LUNCH
Peach Mango Smoothie* (substituting strawberries for the peaches), popcorn*
Nachos, green pepper slices
Quesadillas* (tortillas previously purchased), carrots and ranch dressing*
PBJ, pretzels*
Snack lunch: salami, pepper jack cheese, orange slices
Turkey Sandwiches, carrots, ranch dressing* x2
DINNER
Italian Chicken Pasta Salad, garlic toast
Shrimp and Grits*, steamed asparagus and sugar snap peas
(left over from last week because we had a change of plans and ended up spending $15 on fast food)
BBQ Bacon Burgers, potato chips
Hot Dogs, baked beans*
Crockpot Chili*, corn chips
Baked Potatoes*, bacon*, broccoli*, leftover chili (watch my Best Baked Potatoes Video here)
Soup*, grilled cheese
What are you eating this week? Leave a comment or link. 🙂
Please Note: I post my weekly menu to encourage menu planning and to give meal ideas, not as a nutritional standard. You should feed your family based on your priorities and values.
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Your menu looks great–shrimp and grits? Sounds delicious! I love peaches and mango so I’ll be checking out your peach and mango smoothie for sure. Have a lovely weekend! 🙂
Thanks Danielle. 🙂
My challenge is that my husband is away a lot. I cook one way when he is home and cook differently when it’s just me and our two young boys. We eat cheaper without Dad. 🙂 I try to plan meals but I’m not consistent.
I have such a hard time with lunches! Dinners are easier for me too 🙂
My meal plan is on my blog, here: http://crystalbrothers.wordpress.com/2012/03/26/this-weeks-meal-plan/
It’s not as nice as fancy as yours though! I don’t know what people were talking about to say that your meal plans don’t look very healthy, it looks healthy and filling to me! My goal is usually to get whole grain, veggies/fruits, and protein in each meal. Like you’ve said, there are only so many nutritional guidelines you can pay attention to, especially when half of them contradict one another. And, I feel like any meal we eat at home is better than fast food, even if it’s just my preschoolers having a PB&J on wheat!
We just moved so our menu has just been getting settled. I am not very good at planning out breakfast and lunch, but I have dinner down.
M- Sesame seed noodles.
T- homemade mac & cheese with bacon and leeks.
W- Beans and homemade cornbread.
Th- Chorizo and (leftover) bean burritos with homemade tortillas.
Tonight unfortunately we will be out of the house for dinner. The only things we had to buy for ingredients this week were sour cream, dried pinto beans and the spaghetti for Monday.
Everything else we already had.
Thanks for all the ideas, hopefully my menu next week will be more complete.
Great start Tiffany!
You are doing great making a menu for dinner. Many people don’t even do that. 🙂