Menu Plan Monday 5/3

 

 

Pasta with Sausage Sauce and Fried Zucchini and Garlic Knots and garlic bread

Grilled Spiedies Chicken with Rice and Corn on the Cob (Crispy Pepperoni)

Ground Beef Salsa Sloppy Joes with tater tots (Chicken fries)

Spicy Honey Mustard Chicken and mac and cheese

Homemade Pizza

Fried Rice with egg rolls, pot stickers, and edamame (Hash browns and Bacon)

Chicken Fries, Chicken Wraps and Homemade French Fries

 

Last week we enjoyed a yummy week with most of the meals going according to plan.  Saturday we decided on Skillet Lemon Chicken because I had lemon in the fridge and chicken went on sale so that I could buy it to use.  I got to use up the rest of the orzo in the cupboard to make the rice which was super tasty.  I also used up half of a spice jar of Italian seasoning that I hadn't used previously.

I have done a great job of planning and using up the things that are already in the house in the meal plan for the month. I still have lots of things in the cupboard to use but it still costs a lot to fill in the holes to make sure that we have everything we need to make it through the month.  I was previously using a $160 budget for groceries and $40 for eating out.  When we first went through the lock down, we used all of the $200 towards groceries and did no eating out.  We have started to get pizza once a month which was a little over $10 per month so I was using the $190 for groceries.  The price of groceries continues to go up and the price of pizza has started to go up too so we tried to figure out what would work as a better budget and we have decided to try $200 for groceries and $20 for eating out.  I am hoping that this will give us a little more flexibility in the monthly shopping.