$30 a week - Page 2

markio26 · #21 (**permalink**) 09-22-2006, 12:02 PM

in the summer and winter times.. i can spend under $25 a week on groceries, we use our stockpile... in the spring and fall, we are busy working on other projects, and do not have alot of prep time.

shelbylovesmelby · #22 (**permalink**) 11-07-2006, 01:10 PM

*bumping*

what great recipies OP!

I can live on $30 a week for groceries so long as the expensive items like meat are already stockpiled in the freezer & I think that's pretty good for a family of 4

ggbwg · #23 (**permalink**) 11-07-2006, 03:56 PM

WOW i have not checked back on this thread for a while, MAN GLAD I DID!!! Nice recipes and nice comments thank you. Well alot has changed since then. My budgeting has increased and i am going to have to go back to the basics. We're at $100 -$200 every 2 weeks. What changed so much hubby switched jobs has longer hours leaves me no time to cook or do errands and we have a 6 month old now. Laura

Beckiboo · #24 (**permalink**) 05-15-2008, 07:50 PM

I just couldn't do it! I could not feed my family for $30 per week! I'm impressed by your ability to shop and cook so frugally!

I do have an idea for a cheap snack. Did your kids ever have those frozen uncrustable sandwiches? They serve them at our school as the alternative "hot lunch" choice, instead of plain old peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Well, the kids say the uncrustables are pretty yucky, but I found a recipe on-line and they LOVE IT!

You simply spread two slices of bread with peanut butter, and then add jelly on one slice, but only in the middle. We use jelly, marshmallow fluff, or chocolate hazelnut filling in the center. Next put the sandwich together, and the peanut butter edges will kind of seal, keeping the filling inside. Then put each one in individual ziplocs to freeze. I actually have the kids make them up (ages 8 and 12), and it provides them with a filling snack later.

The chocolate hazelnut filling is costly, and maybe the individual ziplocs. But this is a great use for bread that might be leftover to get stale. Or we often make up extra sandwiches when bread is on sale. My kids prefer to eat them frozen, although occasionally they will take one to school for lunch.