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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: doorgunner69
She buys bottle marinara sauce and thinks she is thrifty? You can make it for far less than the bottled crap.

Disagree. It takes about two cans of tomatoes and a can of tomato paste, plus onion, garlic, extra virgin olive oil, parmesan cheese and herbs to make a quart of bottled sauce.

61 posted on 01/24/2023 9:09:13 AM PST by Albion Wilde ("There is no good government at all & none possible."--Mark Twain)
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To: Sacajaweau
Looking at the pile of food...I'd say she feeds them cr**.

Agree. Bagged hash browns? No vitamins remain. Ramen noodles? Salt and preservatives. Mini muffins? White flour, sugar, dried egg product, dried berries and preservatives...

62 posted on 01/24/2023 9:12:17 AM PST by Albion Wilde ("There is no good government at all & none possible."--Mark Twain)
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To: Albion Wilde
But they all got NIKE sneakers.

The kids are not getting the protein they need.

Wonder what the parents really eat?

The bottom line is....she doesn't really cook...Opening a jar of sauce is not cooking...Tacos is not cooking...2 lbs of rice a week??

63 posted on 01/24/2023 9:20:47 AM PST by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: Sacajaweau

IMO, it is far past time for the inventor of the Crock Pot to be beatified. There should be a national holiday in his honor as well as whoever came up with tupperware...and the nuke!


64 posted on 01/24/2023 9:23:09 AM PST by Roccus (Veritas, non verba magistri)
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To: HamiltonJay

“...for every uneaten meal my children have left...”

A-a-a-a, that falls directly on you, the parents! That should never be tolerated.


65 posted on 01/24/2023 9:24:22 AM PST by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: Sacajaweau

LOL! Same here.

My three sons can pound down the food.

Happy to see I’m not the only one requiring manners from my kids. Not enough parents do nowadays.


66 posted on 01/24/2023 9:28:19 AM PST by TheWriterTX (Trust not in earthly princes....!)
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To: Albion Wilde
I use the amount of vegies she has every week....and more. My latest snack is sauteed brussell sprouts and potatoes.

Now here's what I do...I don't put leftovers in containers....I put the pan in the fridge. It makes me use the leftovers...and eliminates the container. My greatest and latest cooking invention!!!

My other snack goodie is sauteed tomatoes, a couple strips of bacon cut up, 1/2 bag fresh spinach, scallions...top off with couple slices of cheese for protein and slide unto a plate. Really...Pizza without the crust.

67 posted on 01/24/2023 9:29:11 AM PST by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: grundle

https://photos.google.com/photo/AF1QipO6wpNV34gD_xysNI10ZOEQgBgs1BqQzzoeXMtk


68 posted on 01/24/2023 9:29:19 AM PST by Doctor DNA (Fine words butter no parsnips)
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To: Repealthe17thAmendment
I bought a 20 lb bag of Basmati....I'm set for life.

I make a huge batch...and freeze portions in baggies. Flat and stack.

69 posted on 01/24/2023 9:33:45 AM PST by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: Sacajaweau

Sounds good!


70 posted on 01/24/2023 9:33:55 AM PST by Albion Wilde ("There is no good government at all & none possible."--Mark Twain)
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To: Roccus

“I practically live on left-overs. Doncha hate it when they run out? Not fun when there’s nothing to eat....just ingredients.”

The head chef in our home is my 62 year bride. She tries to have a main meal or two and lunch for a couple of days and another dinner QSed with some other ingredients. Leftovers are an important part of our weekly eating.

Her best efforts are with the $5 Costco Chicken. We get the 2 hour delivery and one chicken with each order about once a month. We have the wings and maybe thigh/drumstick for the first lunch. Next, she prepares polenta and a slice or two of chicken for a lunch or dinner. Then, she makes a stew with some of the left over chicken and often QSes her stew with a can of good Progresso soup. I will add my share of tbe salad to my stew/soup in a bowl.

A pound of ground beef becomes hamburgers and left overs are used with Tacos or spaghetti . She does something similar with Jimmy Dean sausage.

We are both depression and WWII kids, and our mothers in spite of the rationing and other limits kept us fed and growing with their creativity in their kitchens. My wife inherited those skills.

She scans the weekly ads of our small local chain store and often has me buy the good priced items for present and future meals like the Jimmy Dean Sausage and one or two good frozen piazza’s. 1/3 to half of my weekly grocery shopping bill is fresh produce.

She is a firm believer in the Mediterranean way of what to buy, how to prepare and enjoy. Our family doc is amazed at how good our lab values are for 80 year old+ patients.


71 posted on 01/24/2023 9:36:44 AM PST by Grampa Dave ((Truth is hate speech to those, who hate the truth!) (clintonh8r))
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To: grundle
Lets see you do it with two teen age boys.
72 posted on 01/24/2023 9:37:34 AM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (The nation of france was named after a hedgehog... The hedgehog's name was Kevin... Don't ask)
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To: AnotherUnixGeek
Probably not.

Married people tend to vote Republican across all groups.

Probably why they have been working so hard to get rid of marriage.

73 posted on 01/24/2023 9:39:30 AM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (The nation of france was named after a hedgehog... The hedgehog's name was Kevin... Don't ask)
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To: grundle

When our kids were younger, my wife got in the habit of planning dinner a month out. She did big shopping once a month with a small fill in every week.

Kids are out but she still does that.

“What do you mean you scheduled a work trip next Tuesday. We’re having chicken that night!”


74 posted on 01/24/2023 9:40:47 AM PST by cyclotic (Follow 1776rm.com. Fighting for our Constitution. @1776RM on Truth)
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To: SgtHooper

Tolerated?

I am not going to force a child to clean their plate. They wish not to eat that’s their prerogative but what is served is all they are getting


75 posted on 01/24/2023 9:40:55 AM PST by HamiltonJay
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To: HamiltonJay
If I had the cash back for every uneaten meal my children have left, I’d be retired by now.

If I had the cash back for every uneaten meal my CATS have left... :-)

76 posted on 01/24/2023 9:43:38 AM PST by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...siameserescue.org)
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To: TheWriterTX

I baked.

And then I taught the teens to bake

Bread, cakes, muffins, pancakes,

Brownies, cookies

They had 50 lbs flour and the fixings.


77 posted on 01/24/2023 9:48:23 AM PST by Chickensoup (Genocide is here. Leftist extremists are spearhheading the Genocide against conservatives. )
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To: Grampa Dave
Her best efforts are with the $5 Costco Chicken.

Rotisserie chicken = shwarma. Yum.

78 posted on 01/24/2023 9:53:17 AM PST by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...siameserescue.org)
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To: who knows what evil?

The Wegmans Barbecue chicken went from $5 to $10 all of a sudden. Like you guys....I got about 5 meals out of that bird.


79 posted on 01/24/2023 10:31:45 AM PST by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: Roccus

Could not live without my Instapot....more multi use, and quicker than crockpot.


80 posted on 01/24/2023 10:53:27 AM PST by goodnesswins (The Chinese are teaching calculus to their 3rd graders wh to sile ours are trying to pick a pronoun.)
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