What is your food budget for February?

Let us know how you do with sticking to the budget, good deals you find and what your meal plans are.

spent about $120 yesterday though $18 of it went in the garbage!  since I forgot to put the sausages in the freezer as the last step.  they were a good deal too. sigh.   got my house hold stuff like milk, fruit, yogurts, breads,cheese etc.   plus some goodies like a marked down mousse cake and donuts.

MarthaMFI:

since I forgot to put the sausages in the freezer

Were they left on the counter or in the car? Trust me, you aren't the only one to have done this.

Some of my meal plans are to use my specials if find and make as many crockpot meals that I can from that.

the sausages were meant for the freezer but I guess I got distracted because of rushing and allergies.   it was at 11am and I discovered them at 8 the next morning.  the freezer is in the basement. 

 I am new at trying to budget food cost, but with the way grocery prices are rising, I am going to try cooking more at home.  I have 3 teenage boys and a really hungry husband,lol.  My Pick n Save started double coupons on Wed., the only catch is you must spend $25.00, and can only double up to 5 coupons in one transaction.  I take hubby with me so he can double coupon too.  So far this week I have planned out four meals, and 2 days of leftovers.  High of 40 degrees in WI. this weekend so I went to Sam's Club and bought big packs of hamburgers and brats for Sat. and Sunday we will have a large breakfast brunch.  Any ideas for using a crock pot?  Thanks, Leelee

I upped my budget to $300 this month - I managed to do just over $250 last month but the pantry/freezer is really bare right now.  I made an Aldi trip, a Shaws trip and a CVS trip and am at 130.14 so far.   A little higher than I wanted but I got a bit of meat at Shaws and sandwich bags, diapers and TP.

It is also a short month so that helps too!

DD#2 and I went shopping. Spent $8.50 at Walgreens, saved 12.70 with coupons, RR. Then we went to Price chopper. Total before coupons and store card was $67.50.  Paid $48. Total spent for the two stores was  $56.50. Babs

did spend about $30 yesterday at a bakery for buns and cinnamon buns next door to the meat store for end cuts of bacon,  produce store for bananas, pint of  grape tomatoes .99 good deal here and baby carrots. at saveon for a prescription so  dinosaur chicken nuggets because ds had been asking for them for weeks and they were on sale and 5 boxes of organic instant oatmeal  8 packs a box for .89 each on clearance.  kept two and gave 3 to my mom.   apple cinnamon and hemp plus.

Today we went to Walgreen's, Food Lion, and Harris Teeter. This is damage we did:

Walgreens: All detergent     $7.49- ad sale and manufacturer coupon

                  Pop tarts     2/$3 plus $1 off coupon

                  walgreen bags 6/$2

                  Pert shampoo $1.99  ezsaver coupon

                  Dh's sesame stix $1

Total $14

Food Lion:

potatoes a bags for $4.49

Jose ole taquitos BOGO and man. coupons =$3.79 for both

Dh's gum 79 cents

Knorr pasta sides 2 for $1 each and 75 cent coupon = 2/$1.25

3 cans chef boyardee for $3 and 35 cent coupon=2.65

total=$14.12

Harris Teeter

Palmolive bogo plus 2 coupons 25 cent each tripled= 2.29 for both

Smithfield bacon BOGO plus 2 coupons 55 cent each tripled=$2.79 for both

Milk $2.99

grapes $1.49/lb= $3.55 big bag, lol!

Total $13.84

Note to self Try harder to convince dh to stay home, lol! He did add 3 items of this that were not on the list, but at least I blocked the majority of his compulsive purchases!