A month of food for less than $260!!!

I did it! With the move and trying to get ready for Christmas, we are B.R.O.K.E. So hubby told me to see if I could buy grocery for the month with $200. I was skeptical, but I knew that God would make it happen. Well, He one upped me.... My in-laws gave us a $60 giftcard for Thanksgiving and my mother-in-law gave me 2 gallon size bags of greens and 1 of broccoli. So cool, I was now at $260 with a few items already in the kitchen. Here is the menu for the month. Remember, I only cook dinner on Sunday, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. The other days we eat leftovers from the day before. Everything is made from scratch, except for the cereals

Breakfast:

waffles, pancakes, cinnamon rolls, muffins, oatmeal, cold cereal

Lunch:

beefaroni, ramen noodles (the kids like these for some odd reason, so I buy them maybe twice a year), cheeseburger mac, tomato soup and grilled cheese, pizza, tacos, PB&J, hotdogs

Dinner:

Sunday meals- baked beans, ground beef rice and muffins; fish, baked potatoes & corn on cob; beef pot pie, fish and grits

2 day meals- turkey noodle soup & sandwiches; chili & crackers; chopped steak, yellow rice, greenbeans; hamburgers and fries; baked chicken, chicken flavored rice and broccoli; red beans and rice w/ sausage; shredded beef, yellow rice & turnip/collard greens; beef stew over rice; roast black eye peas rice & mac & cheese; spaghetti

Snacks:

marshmallows (the kids love them), cookies, cinnamon bread, brownies, trailmix

The total came to $288.56. But that total included a pair of sneakers for Darion ($13), a perm and new comb for Mikaela ($8), and a DVD for my hubby ($20). There were a few other things that my hubby threw in the basket that I had not intended to buy.

We are feeding a family of 7 on less than $260. God is so good. I will point out that I do not have to buy babyfood. We bought a Magic Bullet a few months ago, and that was the best $55 we have spent in a LOOOOONG time. All I hacve to do is scoop some of whatever I cook for the rest of the family into that thing, and VOILA! babyfood in 5-10 seconds. I did try to buy some jarred food for him, but he refuses to eat it. Works for me, because this is so much cheaper.

"Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it: thou greatly enrichest it with the river of God, which is full of water: thou preparest them corn, when thou hast so provided for it" Psalm 65:9