Keeper of our Home

Apr. 13, 2008

Grocery Budgeting Part 2

Yesterday we talked about breakfast and how to have a good, healthy but frugal breakfast.

Today we'll talk about lunch. We have very simple lunches and always the same, except for Sundays when we often have guests for lunch. So from Monday through to Saturday we eat our yummy homemade wholemeal bread. This costs us about $1 per loaf to make. We usually need 1 1/2 loaves per day and make extra if we need fresh bread to go with our dinner when we have soup. We enjoy eating fresh salad toppings on our bread each day: lettuce, cucumber, grated carrot, tomatoes, sprouts - whatever we have on hand, or growing in the garden. For the remainder of our sandwiches we have a selection of spreads- peanut butter, homey, jam, vegemite and cheese.

We would spend about $5 per week on bread coverings ( spreads) and $10-11 for the bread. Salad toppings vary as we have spent nothing of late due to our summer garden, but $2-3 would cover the week as I tend to buy what's in season so in the winter time we eat a lot of grated carrot for example.We would spend $7 on cheese as well for the week for sandwiches.

We drink water with our lunch each day.

On Sundays we often have soup, sandwiches, pizza (homemade), cake, pickets, scones-whatever we have baked.

Overall I think our lunches for the week would cost about $25.

So breakfast and lunch together come to about $37 per week.

Tomorrow we'll talk about dinners.

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I love being a stay at home mum with our six beautiful children from the Lord. Each day we strive to live faithfully for Him in thankfulness for His gift of full and free salvation.