Friday, March 7, 2014

Wednesday - Treats in the Budget

Breakfast- 5.00

Bagels -              1.79
Sausage-             1.59
Fruit Smoothie-    1.20


Lunch- 5.47

Don had a youart, a 1.00 menu sandwich and leftover veggies, I had leftover Chicken Pot Pie.

Dinner- 8.00

Spaghetti-  1.00
Meatballs- 3.00
Sauce-      1.00

Chocolate Cake- 2.00
Bread 1.00

Treats are important to fit into a tight food budget, it is much easier to stick with a budget if you budget in the treats. For us that means dessert a few times a week, I buy dessert items usually at the end of season. For example cakes mixes were on sale at Christmas time and knowing that we would use one a week I bought 10 boxes, I even the day after Christmas scored chocolate chips for 1.00 a bag, bought a bunch those and placed in the freezer ( behind the frozen veggies just to keep prying kids from finding them) . They will be used to make cookies, added to pancakes, just a handful of chocolate makes everything taste better. 


Total- 18.47


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