Don’t forget about the free breakfasts at Chick-Fil-A on Wednesday mornings through 10:30a.m.:
Haywood Rd.

• Feb. 11th: Sausage Biscuit
• Feb. 18th:  Burrito
• Feb. 25th: Chicken Minis

Woodruff Rd.

• Feb. 11th: Chicken Biscuit

Laurens Road:

• Feb. 11th: Sausage Biscuit

Greer:

• Feb 11th

Several people have requested for me to share a menu, so here we go with this week’s menu:

Monday-

• B-cereal/oatmeal (we have over 20 boxes of cereal!)
• L- yogurt, cheese, tuna fish
• D-Ham (free), Mashed Potatoes and Carrots(produce special), Cranberry Sauce (.19 at CVS), rolls (bread store)

Tuesday-

• B-cereal, oatmeal
• L-fruit, carrot sticks, leftovers from Monday’s supper
• D-Chopped Chicken (almost free with overage from coupons) and bowtie pasta (penny item), broccoli, bread

Wednesday-

• B- cereal/oatmeal, bananas
• L-carrot sticks, sandwiches, crackers, leftover pasta and broccoli
• D-homemade pizza (flour from Wal*Mart clearance, free Muir Glen tomato sauce, $.25 cheese from Bloom Triples), spinach salad (free spinach from almost 2 months ago that stayed fresh amazingly long!)

Thursday-

• B-cereal/oatmeal, bananas
• L-pb&j for me and hana kate, leftovers or Ramen for Daniel (he loves Ramen, and actually frequently asks if I can find it on sale–this came from Sav More)
• D-Chicken (cooked from Tues night) and Wild Rice soup (using $.25 Uncle Ben’s Country Inn rice from Publix) (also takes milk/cream), crackers (Sav More)

Friday-

• B-cereal/oatmeal, fruit
• L-soup
• D-Baked Blueberry Pancakes (frozen blueberries, pancake mix from Sav More), quiche (frozen free spinach, eggs from a while ago…free or almost free)

Saturday-

• B-Cereal/Oatmeal, fruit
• L-leftovers
• D-getting together with friends

Sunday-

• B-Cinnamon Rolls
• L-Ham and Mashed Potatoes, broccoli, bread (may change :))
• D-leftovers/free for all

(No week 3, as I was out of town for father’s funeral)

Week 4 Spending: $5.98

Total left to spend for 2009: $725.30

Shopped at Bi-Lo (all food pictured is on produce manager’s special, at $1.49 a bag/container).  I also picked up 9 Jr. Frosties (froze several) from “free” coupons, and did a transaction for 3 bottles of shampoo at CVS (used extra care bucks and gift card=$0.00 out of pocket).  For some reason, my camera battery died as I was taking those pictures, and I do not have a picture.

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Week 2 Spending: $3.31

Total left to spend for 2009: $731.28

Shopped at Publix; did 3 transactions (pasta was the Publix Penny item)

Best coupons:

• $3 off any Gerber Food item (gave me overage); details here: still available
• $1 off any Muir Glen (also gave overage); coupons here and here
• $1 off Jolly Time popcorn (makes it free) here

(Thoughts… This was from the week I left to go be with my parents, but I wasn’t able to post sooner.  I missed a week of shopping, but since we’ve had extra people with us in the first weeks of January and will have more family with us in the coming weeks, it will be nice to have a little more padding in our food budget for the extra mouths. Plus, there were travel expenses, though that’s a different budget. In case you’re wondering, our pantry is stocked on pretty much everything, with the exception of fresh produce and a few other items. So most of my shopping is just keeping the pantry full. :))