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I Feed My Family Of Five For $120 A Week — Here's What A Week Of Groceries And Meals Looks Like For Us
Buzzfeed via Yahoo ^ | January 21, 2023 | Sydney Martin

Posted on 01/24/2023 7:19:20 AM PST by grundle

Hi! I'm Sydney, a stay-at-home mom of three, and I make homemade meals for my Colorado family every week.

Each weekend — with that budget in mind — I plan all my family's meals for the upcoming week. This includes choosing the recipes I will make, plus the actual shopping. I cook pretty much every meal every day due to a severe peanut allergy in my household. We don't rely on much takeout for this reason.

(Produce: Garlic, bok choy, green onions, cilantro, ginger, red bell pepper, green beans, carrots, lime, avocado, oranges, lettuce, tomato, bananas, parsley. Dairy: Ricotta, parmesan, mozzarella, cream cheese, cheddar, colby jack, sour cream, milk Meat: Chicken, ground beef, breakfast sausage, hot dogs. Pantry: Marinara, lasagna noodles, artichoke hearts, chicken broth, ramen, soy sauce, taco seasoning, refried beans, salsa, coconut milk, basmati rice, taco shells, black beans, tortillas, cheddar cheese soup, oats, brown sugar. Misc: Mini muffins, crescent rolls, frozen hash browns, frozen spinach. (**Not pictured: Costco eggs.)

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TOPICS: Food
KEYWORDS: cooking; food; ohnonotpeanuts
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To: Sacajaweau

As a junior in high school at our normal dinner meal, I also received a 1-pound mass of hamburger meat as my personal extra as dessert, plus the several instant breakfasts I would drink with the meal and all day.

The two school trays and 2 snack bar hamburgers and several milks for school lunch, and breakfast was as big as I get.

None of it worked, the calories I was burning would not let me attain the extra weight I needed for college.


101 posted on 01/24/2023 8:17:37 PM PST by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: GOPJ
Yup...I'm buying 5.5 lb package of ground beef this week...and will make...meat loaf, chili and meatballs for homemade spaghetti sauce. I throw a chunk of pork butt in my sauce, a bit of powdered fennel in lieu of sausage. It's so hard to stop eating all the meatballs before the sauce is done.

Last time I made sauce, I made 100 meatballs....cooked in the oven on a cookie sheet. It's so great with the kids not living at home....no sharing. Bad mom!! lol

102 posted on 01/24/2023 8:23:45 PM PST by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: Grampa Dave

You are blessed for sure. We practice the same. I am grateful every day for the upbringing I had.


103 posted on 01/25/2023 4:37:01 AM PST by MomwithHope (Forever grateful to all our patriots, past, present and future.)
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To: Sacajaweau

Sounds yummy. Thanks.


104 posted on 01/25/2023 4:43:30 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (Stupid is supposed to hurt.)
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To: Sacajaweau

Nice idea
Thanx


105 posted on 01/25/2023 4:51:43 AM PST by Roccus (Veritas, non verba magistri)
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To: MayflowerMadam

oops...dipped in flour first...then egg..


106 posted on 01/25/2023 6:36:57 AM PST by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: MomwithHope

We are blessed and lucky to have the parents we had while growing up.


107 posted on 01/25/2023 7:36:31 AM PST by Grampa Dave ((Truth is hate speech to those, who hate the truth!) (clintonh8r))
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To: Grampa Dave

Here’s a tip. Garb a 2 or 3 lb bag of lemons. Cut in wedges and/or slices. Freeze on tray then put in plastic bags. So great to not let them rot and have them on hand for some of your recipes...incl. salads...instead of vinegar.


108 posted on 01/25/2023 8:50:55 AM PST by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: Sacajaweau

Thanks.

We have a very producing Meyer lemon tree, and my wife does your suggestion to keep the lemons from rotting.

Still, we run out about this time a year, and I have to buy lemons at the store for $2/lemon. (not this week/next week).


109 posted on 01/25/2023 9:53:44 AM PST by Grampa Dave ((Truth is hate speech to those, who hate the truth!) (clintonh8r))
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To: grundle

Cut out the overpriced garbage Little Bites and bake some real muffins.


110 posted on 01/25/2023 4:13:29 PM PST by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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