$125 Budget Weekly Menu –After two years of $100 Budget Menus, we’ve increased the grocery budget to $125 a week for six people including three teens.
(Please Note: You may not be able to replicate this exact menu for $125 because sales are probably different in your area and you will have different items on hand, but you can save money just by using a menu. 🙂)
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*Items marked with an asterisk were purchased in previous weeks in the $125 Budget and are in the pantry, fridge or freezer.
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BREAKFAST
Homemade Waffles with DIY Waffle Syrup, sausage
Cereal with milk x2
Egg and Cheese English Muffin
Cheese Toast, orange slices
Scrambled eggs, biscuits
LUNCH
Peach Berry Smoothie, popcorn*
Turkey Sandwich, carrots and broccoli* with ranch dressing* x2
Homemade Pizza Bagels
Tuna Salad
Nachos, carrots* with ranch dressing
PBJ, tortilla chips, apple slices with cinnamon
DINNER
BBQ Pepper Jack Bacon Burgers, potato chips
Seasoned Chicken Thighs* (sprinkle chicken skin with Lawry’s Seasoning Salt and bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour), steamed cauliflower with butter and salt
Hot Dogs, baked beans*
Rosemary Roasted Chicken, steamed green beans*, roasted potatoes with herbs
Oven Baked Tacos with Beantastic Taco Meat, Broccoli Slaw Salad* (broccoli slaw previously purchased)
Leftover Night
Dinner with Friends
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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this is awesome, very easy to follow and impressive! i have a similar series, $30 for 5 meals. gotta love saving money!
Thanks for posting each week! Here is my frugal ($50/wk) meal plan: http://www.servingjoyfully.com/2012/09/24/weekly-meal-plan-924/
It is so nice to see other people managing to have a varied diet on a budget. I hear people say all the time it can’t be done. I also get told you can’t lose weight on a budget, but I lost 98lbs that way and have written a lot about budget healthy eating.
I went to the farmers market this week and bought lots of squash, so I shall be making things with those this weekend.
Good for you Dannii! 🙂