WEEK 2

Week 1 is done and it was almost 100% successful. I spent $97 on groceries, until Saturday night when Mark and I decided to make Sushi, Tempura, and Inari. Having to go and buy the supplies for that definitely put us over our food budget, however we could have gone out and bought it from a restaurant and it would have been more expensive so we still in the end saved. That is my justification. Mark has a challenge at his work for the next 30 days to not eat out once. Spending $100 on groceries every week is great, however if you then go out and eat 3 or 4 times it kind of defeats the purpose of saving money, so these next 4 weeks should be huge savings with groceries and not eating out at all. For the most part I want to also try and include little household things in this budget like wipes, formula, detergent, toilet paper, cleaners, but it is definitely not a must to include it. On Saturday we realized we needed toilet paper, detergent, formula, and dog food so almost $!00 was spent just buying those things as formula was $4 cheaper then usual so I bought 4 of them. The biggest goal though is the less then $100 on groceries and if I can add household stuff as well great, if not I am not going to stress about it. 

Today was great success I bought everything on my grocery list and a couple extras I forgot once I was there that I needed for Macie like crackers and cereal. My total was only $72 dollars.