300 a Month Challenge, Menu, & Goals

 

 

( out one of my back windows, a lot of the snow has already melted) 

 

 

Well I didn't do as good as I did last week, had to go to town and that always means I spend money. I did find some Christmas lights at Wal-Mart on clearance for 75% off, I got several boxes to use next year since I used all my old ones on the back yard, I also need a few more for the yard this summer. I had to buy eggs, with all this cold and snow my chickens are not laying at all. Got bath tissue and Corn & flour tortillas ( I am making burritos, breakfast burritos and taquitas for the freezer and store bought tortillas are much easier to work with.)

 

Lights Several boxes 26.62

Bath Tissue                         9.23

Eggs 5 Dozen pack     9.34

Corn Tortillas              3.38

Flour Tortillas               6.98

Milk  2 Gallons          20.00

                                   75.55

                                  

 

For the month I have spent 75.55 this week and 20.00 last week for a total of 95.55 for the month. That leaves me with 204.49 for the  month and 3484.45 for the year.

 

 

Menu for the week,

 

Breakfast

Pancakes

Scrambled eggs

Yogurt and fruit

waffles

cereal

 

To these I will add toast or fruit. 

 

Lunch

Chicken Potato Soup

French Toast

Beef Noodle soup

H.M. Hot Pockets

Pancakes

 

To these I will add  fruit, crackers, or something as a side dish.

 

Dinner

Chicken Fried Steak /baked potato

Fried Potatoes with Polish Sausage

Chili

Swiss Steak

Chili and Macaroni

Stroganoff

Leftovers

 

To these I will add a vegetable or appropriate side 

 

Snacks

Yogurt

Graham Crackers ( if I get them made).

Fruit snacks

Cookies

Fruit

 

Andy's Snacks

Chocolate cake

Peach Cobbler

 

Joleen's snack

Chocolate chip cookies ( Joleen wrote this, I'm thinking she might want some cookies haha)

 

Goals for the week

 

I got the Lemons almost all done, Lemon syrup, preserved lemons with salt, and with sugar, lemon oil, lemon extract, lemon vinegar, and dehydrated lemons.

Butter made up, whipped topping made, yogurt and cream cheese.

Part of the shed organized, It has been so cold we just run out and put up, or grab what we need so it was getting a little cluttered.

I did get started on tax stuff and worked a little with my sock maker. I was doing it all wrong so had to go to their website and figure out what I was doing ( thank goodness for the internet haha).

 That was about all the extra I got done. I decided to wait on the green chili, it is frozen so it can wait a little longer.

 

This week I want to get the oranges and grapefruit put up. I need to get started on the onions and the potatoes before they start going bad. I am going to have to wait a little longer on the chicken coop, my wheel barrel is buried under the snow, its not to bad so it won't hurt it to wait a little longer.

I really need to get my sewing machine out and get started on a bunch of stuff, Katie's robe, pants mended, a couple quilts I need to finish, some storage bags, a baby blanket, just to name a few of the things I need to get done.

I got a serger for Christmas I have started the video on it, need to finish watching it so I know what I am doing.

Hopefully I can get a little of this done this next week.

 

How are you doing on your spending this month I would love to hear from you.

Have a great week.