Grocery Shopping Plan October 29th : $100 per week budget

I try to keep my grocery budget to around $100 per week for my family of 9.  We have 7 kids, 5 of which are teenagers.  We live on a very tight budget so stretching my bucks at the grocery store is a must!  I do try to keep things on hand for them to snack on including boiled eggs, apples, bananas, or oranges, cheese blocks or sticks, crackers, peanut butter, popcorn, tortillas with refried beans, and I try to keep a homemade sweet in the cake holder. 


I'm excited about adding chicken corn chowder to the menu this week.  I make this often in the winter months but haven't made it all summer.   About half of my family really likes soup!  What do the others do when we have something they don't like?  They eat leftovers or fix a PBJ.  I'm not a short order cook but I don't mind if they find an alternative.  They just have to be the ones to make it.

Salisbury Steak with mashed potatoes and brown gravy was requested from Brandi.  She loves brown gravy over anything.  Looks hearty and filling and we haven't had it in a very long time either.

The lime chicken was inspired by both items being on sale this week along with the tortillas and salsa.  So yum! 

I will be posting the full menu with the recipes on Sunday.  You can get a sneak peek at the recipes by following my menu planning board on Pinterest.  

Here are my ideas:

Ideas
Breakfast	General Mills cereal
Breakfast	Bacon and Eggs
Breakfast	Eggo Waffles
breakfast	smoothies
lunch	Homerun Pizza
lunch	PBJ
lunch	BLT
lunch	corndog muffins
snacks	Kraft mac and cheese
snacks	Orville Redenbacher popcorn
snacks	Little Smokies
snacks	corndog muffins
dinner	Lime Chicken Tacos with corn on the side
dinner	Salsibury Steak with mashed potatoes and peas
dinner	pork chops with mac and cheese and green beans
dinner	chicken corn chowder wth garlic cheese biscuits
dinner	BLT's and Baked Potato Bar

List for  Winn-Dixie

shopping list WD	Cost
green onions	$1
garlic	1
frozen or canned corn X 2	1.2
canned chopped chilis	1
bacon (smithfield) BOGO	7
chicken breasts	7
jarred or packet brown gravy	1
top London Broil (ground)	8
tortillas or shells (chi-chi) BOGO	4
salsa (chi-chi) BOGO	4
kraft mac and cheese BOGO	4
little smokies (hillshire farms BOGO)	5
Homerun Pizza	8
Eggos BOGO	4
General Mills Cereal (BOGO)		5
total:	$61.20

List for Save A Lot

lettuce	$1.5
limes	1
tomato	2
bagged potatoes	4
flour	2
chicken quarters	4
butter	3
onions	1.3
eggs	2
onion soup mix	2
sour cream	2
hot dogs	2
corn muffin mix	2
crescent rolls	2
pork chops	8
half and half	2
total:	$40.80