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Monthly food budget for 29/5/2023 I use it now as a easy fast meal and also when money is a bit tight. This is a very basic recipe and a go to when I was growing up and money was a bit tight. Once warmed through add the green onions, onions and eggs in and mix. Set a side again lol add more margarine and add your cold rice season with salt and pepper. Set aside, add more margarine and scramble your eggs with salt and pepper as this is going to be your protein you going to make a good bit of them. In a frying pan take some margarine or butter and saute onions and green onions until onions turn transparent. Need margarine or butter, sweet yellow onion, green onions, left over white rice (I use Botan sticky rice), eggs and salt and cracked black pepper. Here are a couple of suggestions for you.ġ) Egg fried rice. Pretty much all our produce has doubled in price since last year. (I’m hoping the chickens are much happier.) Apples ON SALE, cheapest kind, are $1.49/lb, and I did get potatoes for an incredible 54 cents/lb. Really good prices for here, since Colorado now requires that all egg-laying chickens be cagefree…and that bumped up prices. So we’ve had a lot of soup, too.Ĭheapest eggs are $2.09-2.49. I topped it off by getting some sort of bronchitis, plus reports to finish up. Unusual for Colorado’s ‘high plains desert’ environment. Way more than usual, to the point that it’s been a tad dreary. I’m not sure, but believe it was even at the Hotel Sacher.) (I lived in Austria for a summer back in college days - my cousins were missionaries in Vienna - and had a slice of this once there. It takes a lot of eggs, but my family begs for it for not only Christmas, but their birthdays. Total Spent on Groceries in 2023 $709.16 for my $100 a month grocery budget. And just in case you’re not a math wiz, that’s $3.98 a pound for russet potatoes There are people among us who are paying $1.99 for an 8 ounce shrink wrapped potato. Seriously, how many people do you know would pay $4.99 a pound for ordinary peaches?Īnother fact: There is a sucker born every minute. I don’t know about you, but most of the prices in the stores these days, I just shake my head at and move on. We already have plenty of beans, rice and pasta in our food storage, s o if all goes well in the gardening and canning departments this summer, and a few more deals on stock up items like whole chickens, butter and cheese come our way, we should be set to finish the year on budget.įact: We now live in a world where ordinary peaches are selling for $4.99 a pound. We are working on getting our garden planted, eating down the canning cupboard and working on using up the vegetables we froze from last summer’s bounty. So the only thing left to buy in November or December is milk and eggs. And typically, I pretty much have everything I need to get by for the rest of the year by around early October. If you’re a long time reader then you know I detest going into the stores around the holidays. But, it’s also about right for this time of year. Which is a little more than my goal of an average of $100 a month. My current grocery store purchases for 2023 are $709.16 There are so many things I want to share, I hope I can remember them all! Welcome to my $100 A Month Grocery Budget – Week 22 of 52.
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