In January, I decided to participate in Money Saving Mom’s Eat From The Pantry Challenge.
I only set 2 goals for myself.
Then I didn’t update for the rest of the month. So here’s one big whole month update:
Goal #1. I will try to only buy fruits, veggies, dairy.
We mostly met this goal. We, of course, had to buy DH’s lunches to take to work. I wasn’t able to make as much homemade bread as I wanted, so we had to buy bread. But then, we didn’t have to buy a lot of baking products.
Goal #2. My goal is to spend no more than $50.00 a week on food.
Yeah, I was a little overly optimistic on the $$. Fruit isn’t cheap in the winter, and we do go through a lot of fruit. I am glad that we like to eat fruit, though.
We also added a baby goat to bottle feed. He gets store bought whole milk. He has been going through 2 gallons of milk, and will likely go up to three this week. How can one little baby goat go through as much milk as our family in a week?
Even though we ate LOTS of turkey this month, we still have a whole turkey in the freezer. That’s a good thing, though. As we are completely out of beef. Until we buy another 1/2 cow, that is.
I, also, wasn’t able to go shopping at all again this month. DH continued to do the shopping. Which means no bargain shopping, just one stop shopping at Walmart.
We averaged $100. a week for the month of January. That is a savings of $50. a week over what we had been spending. We used the savings to pay bills.
So, even though I didn’t update all month, the Eat From The Pantry Challenge was a success in our house.
To see how others did in the challenge, visit Money Saving Mom’s Pantry Challenge.
