LOL! I really am making them have Chocolate milk with dinner. Why? Because I do not want to waste the 1/2 gallon of milk left in my fridge. 
Day 1: Surprisingly good.
My grocery list was very minimal this week. All I needed was:
| Aisle 1 Pickles Grocery Straws | Produce Watermelon (DD school function) Frozen Garlic Cheese Bread Still to Buy Fish Food ($20) |
We only spent $37.73 on groceries (+20 for DH wallet and +5 for son’s lunch for the week)! Grocery Allotment Total so far: $62.73. With the remaining two expenditures, that will put us at a potential week (grocery allotment) expenditure $102.73 by the week’s end.
Well… stay tuned. I will be posting my Week’s Menu on Sunday.
Happy Saturday, y’all.
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you are doing great with the spending!
i wish chocolate milk lasted long enough in our house to even think about going bad. husband and kidlet drink it down the minute it gets in the house.
Good for you!!! I just blogged about my grocery shopping bill. I was on empty…which shows in my bill…
You are doing awesome! Can’t wait to see your menu…
@ dinah: well, the kids had me buy a gallon of milk for their chocolate milk … but it hasn’t disappeared. I ended up throwing out a 1/2 gallon of milk because of it! So, this time I bought my usual 1/2 gallon for the cereal cause.
@ Sharon: ya, for some reason we were stocked. it was weird cuz normally I spend at least $80. I don’t know what was different. Maybe I decided we were going to empty the pantry for this project.
I think a no spend month will take some getting used to. Like when we first budgeted. It took our family about 3 months to get the hang of staying w/in our budget. Perhaps this is the same.