Kroger Shopping Trip 5/11 and Starting an Eating From the Pantry Challenge!

Between 2 transactions at Kroger all this stuff was only $22. Earlier in the day I had to go to Wal-Mart for work and picked up 2 cartons of strawberries for $1.97.


Total spending for yesterday was just under $24!

We are also going to start an Eating From the Pantry Challenge (like the one Money Saving Mom had awhile back) and hope to stick to it for about 6 - 8 weeks! That might sound really long, but we will be moving at the end of September (we are buying our first house!!!) and need to work through the stockpile I have going on. My love is completely up for this challenge and is very excited to be able to save quite a bit of extra money, especially since there are usually extra costs that come up with buying a house and moving.

During normal weeks, I allot $40 to the grocery budget. But during the challenge there will be a $10 per week allowance to buy milk, produce, a few random ingredients or to pick up the extrordinary sale items that I can fit into the budget.

If we can manage to stick to this challenge for all 8 weeks - we will have saved an extra $240!!

The next post will have the pictures of my pantry, fridge/freezer and deep freezer just so you can get an idea of what I am working with...