So, this week’s shopping trip is a sneak peek for next week’s posts!
If you’ve been following along the past couple weeks, I’ve been hosting a 4 Weeks to Fill Your Freezer challenge. And I’ve been making each recipe a week in advance to get the posts ready.
Next week’s posts are all dinner recipes, so I’m making them all this week. And you get to see the behind-the-scenes, so to speak!
Most of these dinners are being doubled, so I had to buy extra ingredients. That means I didn’t have much money to stock up on other things, but I was able to snag a turkey for less than 5 dollars! Highlight of my week right there.
My freezer’s getting pretty full! It’s gonna help a ton in December though, when we’ll be too busy to think about cooking. Not to mention I’ll have lots of money to stock up on things since I won’t be buying ingredients for dinner!
Here’s everything I bought this week:
Meijer
Turkey: $4.61. It was only 37 cents a pound!
2-liter of soda: $1.00
Total: $5.69
Aldi
4 packages tortillas: $1.39 each
2 packages multi-colored peppers: $2.89 each
Zucchini: $1.39
2 packages green bell peppers: $1.79 each
2-pound bag of dried black beans: $2.49
Carrots, 2-pound bag: $1.09
Bananas, 4.17 pounds: $1.58
2 blocks cream cheese: $.69 each
Baby wipes: $1.39
2 rolls ground turkey: $1.99 each
Hummus: $1.89
Eggs: $.69
Frozen blueberries: $2.29
Coffee creamer: $1.79
Can of pinto beans: $.89
Can of kidney beans: $.49
2 cans tomato paste: $.39 each
Tomato juice: $1.39
2 jars pasta sauce: $1.89 each
Ricotta cheese: $1.69
Cottage cheese: $1.59
Milk: $1.45
Tortilla chips: $.89
Yellow onions, 3-pound bag: $1.59
Total: $49.52
Kroger
10 boxes Boomerang hand pies: $3.00 each, but I had 10 free coupons to try them thanks to Moms Meet
Green Giant frozen broccoli: Free from a coupon in the mail
Chobani yogurt: Free from Free Friday Download
2 packages bolillo rolls: $.59 each, marked down. I didn’t feel like baking bread for soup last week so I bought these instead.
Idahoan potatoes: Free from Free Friday Download
Betty Crocker cake mix: Free from a coupon in the mail
2 jars natural peanut butter: $1.79 each
Jelly: $1.89
Breakfast sausage roll: Free from a coupon in the mail
4 cans enchilada sauce: $1.19
Green chiles: $.99
Total: $12.40
Sam’s Club
Chicken breasts, 6 pounds: $10.70
Total: $.70 OOP, thanks to a gift card from Fetch Rewards! Sign up and use the code PV2QH to get 2,000 points when you scan your first receipt!
Weekly Total: $72.61. Not pictured are foil pans purchased at Dollar Tree.
Menu
Lunch is always leftovers. Items marked with an asterisk (*) were purchased in previous weeks.
Spoiler alert: These dinners are part of next week’s 4 Weeks to Fill Your Freezer! The recipes will be up next week.
Dinner
Small group: Making salsa chicken with tortillas, roasted peppers/onions
Chicken enchiladas
Slow Cooker Chili
Sloppy Joes
Pasta bake
Slow Cooker Chicken Fajitas
Breakfast
Banana Bread Baked Oatmeal from freezer*
Breakfast Burrito Packs from freezer*
Blueberry Greek Yogurt Scones– Allison’s on a scone kick recently!
Allison’s Lunch
Mini Carrot Cake Muffins, string cheese*, raisins*, pretzels*, hummus
Miscellaneous
The cream cheese and tortilla chips were used for a warm cheese dip mix I made for a game night last week
What’s on your menu this week? Share in the comments below!
Emily
Monday 12th of November 2018
I just want to say you SO inspire me! :)
Jaime
Monday 12th of November 2018
Thanks, Emily! =) I hope you have a great week!