Goal is $500 for the month - that's for five of us and includes all food, cleaning supplies, hba, etc.

Giant $8.72
Price Chopper $8.77
Walgreen's $15.62

updated 3/10
Walgreens $9.02
Walmart $57.56
Walgreens $1.99
Giant $37.38
Sam's $35.06
Target 13.40
Price Chopper $13.54

updated 3/12
CVS $6.54
WG $16.50

Updated 3/18
Giant $27.23
CVS $0.85
CVS $1.05
Giant $13.72 (birthday)
Maines $8.37
CVS $0.68
WG $3.06
WG $2.02
Target $22.78

3/19
Walmart $41.94

balance left: $154.12

$58 at Walmart
1 milk
1 apple juice
2 brown rice
3 corn
3 baby food
3 tomato sauce
3 beans
1 cream of tartar
3 pudding
2 jello
1 cool whip
1 butter
10 lb flour
body wash
file folders
Pooh ball
eggs
3 bananas
1 baby puffs
ww bread
2 pasta
2 taco seasoning
1 chicken broth
1 tomato soup
box of 16 corn dogs

$72 left

Well, as mentioned before I buget over two weeks - not over the month (I just can't figure that our with our paydays). At this point I am over by $1.09 for this last two weeks I have, however, picked up $12 in extra expenses that I am not used to. Instead of having DH buy things from the vending machines, I am now buying them at the store and dividing them out. This used to come out of "his" money, but he isn't giving that to me now the grocery budget is just sucking it up

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Hannaford $25.57
Aldi's $17.12
Fred the Butcher $25.87
Aldi's $9.08
Wal Mart $49.59 $8.46
Price Chopper $39.96 $29.57
Total saved for March $345.49 (saved $90.03 or 26.06%)
Left to spend $55.

UPDATING

Goal is $500 for the month - that's for five of us and includes all food, cleaning supplies, hba, etc.

Giant $8.72
Price Chopper $8.77
Walgreen's $15.62

updated 3/10
Walgreens $9.02
Walmart $57.56
Walgreens $1.99
Giant $37.38
Sam's $35.06
Target 13.40
Price Chopper $13.54

updated 3/12
CVS $6.54
WG $16.50

Updated 3/18
Giant $27.23
CVS $0.85
CVS $1.05
Giant $13.72 (birthday)
Maines $8.37
CVS $0.68
WG $3.06
WG $2.02
Target $22.78

3/19
Walmart $41.94

3/21
WG $7.37
CVS $1.12

3/22
Giant $41.66
Giant $6.24


balance left: $97.73

$44 at Smith's
3 gallons milk
green onions
red pepper
bag of spinach
baby food
2 lb ground beef
6 cans corn
5 cans green beans
1 bag cereal
Ritz crackers
raisins
WW tortillas

$20 at Walmart
baby wipes
gardening supplies
toothbrushes
bodywash

Walmart-
clorox 1.84
wisk laundry detergent 3.97
salt/pepper .94
GV marshmallows 1.22
2 cheddar cheese cups@.34 each
GV wheat bread 1.34
GV olives .88
Gv cy frt ck?.88
5 2 liters@.67 each+.10 deposit each

Save A Lot-
10 ounce frozen spinach .79
2 containers of sour cream@1.29 each
2 packages of strawberry muffin mix@.49 each
tabasco sce phoenix 1.49
can of cream corn .39

Menards-
2 hamburger helper potato stroganoff@ .99each-1.00 on two coupon
bag of chex traditional mix .98-50 coupon
bag of chex sweet and salty trail mix .98-.50 coupon

Save A Lot-
2 HUGE beef roast(devided them up into two packages for two meals)8.68
1# bag of salad mix 1.29
10 packages of thin sliced lunch meat@.50 each
2 cans of tuna in water@.65 each

Save A Lot-
chili chunky campbells soup 1.69
2 cranberry juice@1.99 each
18 count carton of eggs 2.99
pasta chef boyardee .99
seafood cocktail sauce .99
stars pasta .29

Budget Left-$42.86
Walmart-$11.55
Save A Lot-$6.23
Save A Lot-$16.27
Menards-$1.94
Save A Lot-$10.93
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$4.06 Over***I will be subtracting this from next month budget

Best of luck to everyone else!!!

updated 3/28
PC $12.00
WG $4.49

balance left: $81.24

3/27 milk $2.99

3/29 Target $5.36
milk $2.99

3/31 Giant $2.49

total spent: $432.59
balance left - under budget by: $67.41

Now to bring that spent amount down even more next month...

in march, i spent $315.65 and saved $29.22 with coupons for a family of four. i would love to get it below $300 for next month.