I am going to try and get my budget to $300, down from $350.

Ingles:
1 tub margarine
2 lb ground beef
Chock full o'Nuts coffee
Spent: $9

Fred's:
1 pack diapers
Apple Juice
3 cans corn
1 bottle Palmolive dish detergent
Quaker quick grits
spent: $11

Ingles:
Martha White self rising flour
2 cans sweet peas
Pioneer biscuit gravy mix
Cocowheats
coffee
4 lb bag sugar
hamburger buns
2 cans albacore tuna
1 can cream of chicken & mushroom soup
1 can hormel chili
lg can crushed tomatoes
1 can creamed corn
saltines
1 gallon whole milk
tampax tampons
1 pack baby wipes
lg pack bacon ends & pieces
lg pack chicken breasts
2 lb ground beef
lg pack chicken thighs
Tyson chicken breast patties
Fast Fixin popcorn chicken
Mrs. Smiths spiced pumpkin pie(marked down to $1.99)
Spent: $67

Remaining Balance for October: $213

October Budget: 500.00

10/01/08 SUPER 1
Two cans Beef Tamales @ 1.77 = 3.54
Ten cans of Hormal Chili @ .88 = 8.80
3 packs of boneless steaks and 2 packs boneless porkchops @3.99 = 19.95

Total 32.29

10/01/08 ALBERTSONS
two boxes greengiant frozen broccoli and cheese @ 1.50 = 3.00
two boxes of tony chaceries beans and rice @ 1.00 = 2.00

Total 5.00

10/01/08 KROGER
three boxes of hot packers @ 3 for $5 = 5.00
six frozen dinners @ .88 = 5.28
six frozen dinners @ .91 = 5.46
Chcken noodle mix 1.99

Total 18.05



Budget: 500.00
Spent: 55.34
Left for month:444.66

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I'll be doing $275 +$25 stocking up again.

10/1 Walmart 29.49
green onions
cucumber
carrots
orange
snap peas
banana
cilantro
frozen chopped spinach
velveeta
bacon
cream cheese
eggs
rice pudding
plain yogurt
kids' yogurt
quick oats
ff milk
whole milk

Left: 245.51 + $25

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It's not what you make; it's what you spend.

Well I sat down and planned our meals for the whole month and today I went shopping for most of the items we needed. Now I did have some meat stored in the freezer so I did not have to purchase as much.

I am hoping by doing one large shopping trip and than just a few extras throughout the month will help me spend less because I won't be in a store. I just have to make sure when I pick up few extras such as fresh fruit that I can control buying anything else. Maybe I will send DH if he is willing!! He is always in and out and usually only buys what I put on list.


Budget:$450.00
Spent:$115.46
Remaining:$334.54

I'm not going to set a budget because I first need to figure out how much we spend.


10.1
-gatorade- SO 1.00

10.2- Dierbergs

Cream of Tarter 6.34

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September Coupon Savings: $146.56
October Coupon Savings: $209.08

I have a question...how many members do you have in your family? I know with me having 5 of us I have a hard time keeping my totals down.

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~~Shawn~~ Wife to John 7/6/95~~Mommy to Sydney, Jordan and Brooklyn~~

I feed 5 everynight and depending on the girls' schedule that number jumps to 6, 7 or 8.

I think this is a fabulous idea! I think we're going to aim for $400.00 for groceries and $50.00 for stockpiling.

We were grossly overbudget last month, but it was our first month at trying this kind of thing out. This month, we'll be much more disciplined.

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"When you are a mother you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child."-Sophia Loren
"A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take." -Cardinal Mermillod
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I'm going to try for $600. I'd like to get it down even more considering I spent close to $800 in September. There's 6 of us, and my kids eat like they'll never get food again.

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I needed to stock up on some things this week.I buy some things in large quanities and we were running low.I did not get all of what I wanted but the most important things we needed any way.

Meijer's-
can of soup .84
vo5 shampoo .99
2 vo5 shampoo 1.98
2 conditioners .99/each - .75 coupon X2
red velvet cake mix 1.59
white frosting 2.05
capri sun juice pouches 2.24
55 pack box of flex garbage bags 10.00
2 boxes of 1oo count flex straws .99 each
hi-c 10 pack juice boxes 1.67

Walmart-
knox gelatine 1.34

Dollar tree-
2 rolls of paper towels 1.00
shave cream womans 1.00
cuddle soft carton of fabric softener 1.00
shampoo 1.00
conditoner 1.00
2 pack of lime juicers,squeezable ones 1.00

Sam's-
3# banana's 1.44
2 gallon cans of tomato sauce 2.38 each
big container of granulated garlic powder 4.36
2 half gallon jugs of mrs. butterworths pancake syrup 6.34
4 pack of celery hearts 2.47
5 pound jug of honey 8.87
48 count pack of peanut butter and crackers 5.12
102 load container of clorox color safe color booster 13.86
48 pack of string cheese 9.12
500 count ziplock sandwich bags 8.38

Budget left-220.74
Meijer-25.02
walmart-1.34
Dollar tree-6.00
Sam's-64.72
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Left of Budget-123.66

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*Wife to Rick since (14 years)*
~Mom to 2 boys Dakota 13 & Ryan 9~
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~Month~Budget~Spent~
February~400.00~380.35(under 19.65)
March~400.00~419.65(over 19.65)
April~400.00~395.94(under 4.06)
May~400.00~391.53(under 8.47)
June~375.00~373.13(under 1.87)
July~375.00~365.62(under 9.38)
August~365.00~363.24(under 1.76)
September~355.00~292.74(under 62.26)
October~345.00~345.00(even)
November~350.00~352.81(over 2.81)
December~340.00