Challenge wrap up

Amounts:
week 1 $28.98
week 2 $25.00
week 3 $54.49
week 4 $25.77

Total: $134.18
4 week average: $33.54

Allotted total for challenge: $200
Personal challenge total goal: $100

So, I on the whole did close to my personal challenge, but only made it once and still easily met the Challenge goals. I'm ok with this. :)

Week 4 Shop

We menu planned this week. Between that and the list we ended up buying:

2lb bag of bell peppers
1 package strawberries
2 green tomatoes
1 bunch green onion
2 loaves of whole wheat bread
1 leek
1 package of salad mix
6 yogurt cups
2 boxes of pasta
generic apple cider vinegar
2 dozen eggs

Last night I made a pie, this week we'll also be making a quiche and some crepes - all use lots of eggs! We'll also have stuffed peppers one night. We'll do a salad with the quiche and friend green tomatoes with the stuffed peppers. Yum. :)

Per the receipt:

We spent $25.77
Saevd $7.30 (only one coupon for the yogurt)

So we just missed my weekly goal but met the challenge goal.

Week 4

Week 4 we may redeem ourselves. There is very little we need. Looking at the prelist, there were only three items we would buy this week: bread, juice, and pasta. We'll see tomorrow when the final list is produced.

Week 3 Fail

We failed this week. Not just my personal challenge of $25/week, but also at the challenge of $25/person/week.

Why? Well, there was a (BOGO) sale on pasta, and we were seriously low - three boxes of noodles only. So, we stocked up - buying six, large, boxes. Same situation on cheese - we had no shredded cheese and there was a BOGO sale, so we stocked up.

Also, despite my asking every week while planning the list, if my husband is running low on or needs anything. He rarely states anything. But while shopping he realized he was out of tea, which he's been swapping to instead of coffee for caffeine but easier on his stomach, as well as baking powder and soda.

What did we buy?
6 boxes of pasta (BOGO)
1 bell pepper
2 boxes of tea
2 cans of baked beans (BOGO)
4 bags of shredded cheese
2 ears of corn
4 12packs of Coke (BOGO)
1 box baking powder
1 box baking soda
1 4pk yogurt
1 8pk smoothies
1 pk of beef kabobs (with veg)

The yogurt and smoothies were also a staple, I go through them every few weeks trying to have one or the other each day for dairy. Beans were to replace what we brought to a friend's for the 4th. The kabobs was totally a treat. We drink a lot of soda (I'm trying to cut back!) so whenever it is on sale, we get as much as we can.

Per our receipt, we spent $54.49 and saved $24.50.

There were multiple places we could have cut back to meet the challenge rules.

The kabobs and corn was one planned meal that week. The bell pepper was also for a recipe we had planned to make.