Well, we made it through the Thanksgiving holiday! We had a great time with family and of course had wonderful food. And thanks to having many meals with family, it wasn't even a challenge to stay on budget this week. We did still have food costs, though, so here's what it looked like:
Staples: $32.72
Thanksgiving: $24.46 (our contribution of one side and two desserts)
Splurge: $5.21 (soda, goldfish for the kid, etc.)
All-in-all, not too bad. With tax, it all came to $65.99. Our staples were a little higher than they might have been otherwise because we bought with sharing with our families in mind. So a bag of grapes that may have lasted us a week took less than 2 days to go through.
You will also notice that I didn't end up buying anything for our regular meals. Like I said previously, we still have the stuff on hand for two meals. We ended up only making one of them. So other than replenishing our staples, we were set for regular meals at home.
Now that the holiday is over, I'm looking at the menu plan for next week. That will be finalized later today and then the grocery budget fun will start all over again!
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