Here's the menu for the last several days of October. We have already ate a few of them already and will be having pizza tonight. I have not, yet, put these in order as to when to eat what.

Supper

1. Beef patties and saut'ed onions with mashed potatoes and gravy, collard greens

2. cabbage casserole

3. Middle Eastern Lentil soup

4. Pizza

5. Chili(made from dried kidney beans) and cornbread

6. Roast and veggies with rice

7. Roast Soup

8. Vegetable soup and cornbread

9. Country Bean Soup

10. Chicken Casserole

11. Potato Soup

Lunch

baked potatoes

leftovers(whenever possible, planning on it being often)

egg salad sandwiches

tuna salad sandwiches(twice)

Ramen(twice)

Fish sandwiches and fries

Breakfast

baked oatmeal(twice)

cereal (twice)

cinnamon rolls

cheese biscuits

pancakes

muffins

eggs and grits

Farmer's Delight(eggs, bacon, biscuits, grits)

A homemade copy of Bojangles Boberry Biscuits

Beverages

tea, Koolaid, coffee, juice, milk

Snacks

Homemade treats such as cookies, brownies, muffins, popcorn, pretzels, canned fruit, peanut butter crackers... Our oldest is good at fixing the sweet, fattening stuff that we just can't resist.

I put us on a VERY tight budget this month! It's been fun and challenging to come to a new horizon in the food budget world. I'll go ahead and say that I am hoping to make it at $350 for this month. This includes all household consumables. I will throw in that we were gone for a day trip and ate out for breakfast and lunch, of which is not included on this budget. We ate out one other time which was included on this budget.  We have not bought any beef as we still have some in the freezer. I use disposable diapers and "goodnights" for the children on a part time basis.  We have chickens but their feed does not come from our grocery budget.  The menu above has a lot of soups in it! Hopefully we won't get burned out on soup. Next month I hope to have a more varied menu from the start.

I am thinking of setting next month's budget at $375 but if we have very good sales I might can keep down at $350. Happy budgetting!