$125 Budget Weekly Menu –If you read my post last week, then you know that after two years of $100 Budget Menus, we have decided to increase our grocery budget to $125 a week for six people including three teens.
Check back later to see my shopping for this week and whether or not I was able to make the budget. 🙂
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Here’s a look at what we are eating this week:
(*Items marked with an asterisk were purchased in previous weeks in the $100 Budget and are in the pantry, fridge or freezer. Click purple links to go to recipes!)
BREAKFAST
Egg and Cheese Bagel
Homemade Waffles with DIY Waffle Syrup
Cereal with milk x2
Yogurt, banana
Cheese Toast, fresh peach slices
Fried eggs, toast
LUNCH
Turkey Pepper Jack Grilled Cheese, cucumber slices
Ham Sandwich, carrots and ranch dressing* x2
Nachos with avocado slices
Snack lunch: salami, pepper jack cheese slices, green pepper slices
Macaroni and Cheese*, green pepper slices
DINNER
BBQ Bacon Burgers, Home Fried Potatoes
Roast*, mashed potatoes, steamed green beans
Hot dogs, baked beans*, romaine salad
Roast Chicken*, Pasta Salad (without the chicken)
Chicken Enchiladas (with leftover roast chicken), rice
Taco Salad
Breakfast for Dinner: scrambled eggs and bacon*
Read what we do about snacks here.
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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I saw you bought berries, where are they on the menu for the week? Just curious! Thanks!
Yes, we had the blackberries with yogurt for breakfast. 🙂
I just realized that I had the wrong link for the menu for this week, so I am sure you were confused! Here is the correct menu link for this week which has the blackberries listed for breakfast. 🙂
Love that we have the same budget! I try to buy mostly Organic and Natural Products so the info about savings at Walmart was helpful. Here’s this week’s Menu for our Family. http://www.elenisavesu.com/2012/09/125-menu-planning-for-four.html
Thanks for posting your menu. I only recently discovered your site about 2 weeks ago. We were in the process of moving and didn’t have time to actually cook much. I am so excited to be in my new kitchen and cooking. Thanks for the awesome meal ideas. I think I pretty much copied your dinner meals this week verbatim.
So glad you like them! 🙂
Thanks for posting this week after week for us. I look at your menu every Saturday and Sunday to get ideas. My hubby and I are moving soon and need to save every penny, so it has been such a blessing to be able to look at your menu for ideas when I need two or three more meals for the week. I love what God is doing in you! Keep letting Him use you. 🙂 Blessings, Lauren, lholmes79.wordpress.com
Thank you so much for your encouragement Lauren. 🙂
We also recently had to up our food budget from $100 to $125 per week, after a few years. We have two adults, an skinny 8 year old (who eats tons like a teenager), a 6 year old and a 2 1/2 year old who is gluten, dairy and soy free (but has a huge appetite)! Good job sticking to the budget, it has become kind of like a game to me!
Thanks for posting this. We have a slightly larger budget for two adults and one kid and I am wanting to start scaling back. Thanks for the inspiration.
You are very welcome Felicia. 🙂
I LOVE this site. You always have such good information and so much positivity. I tell everyone I know about this site. Blessings to you and your family.
Thank you so much Eboni! I’m glad you like it. 🙂
My meal plan, including a link to some great lunch ideas: http://www.servingjoyfully.com/2012/05/21/meal-plan-521/
Thanks for posting Crystal.