Groceries and Meals for March

I started with $26.17 in my grocery “envelope”. I knew I needed to stock up on some staples at Cash & Carry, a restaurant wholesale store so I budgeted $100. rather than my usual $70 this month.

Let’s see what I bought and what I ate…

Cash & Carry $70.32

Safeway $18.61

Right away I made a batch of oven baked Chicken, then used some of that to stock my freezer with Burritos.I made breaded pork chops accompanied by oven roasted red potatoes made with

Marked down Onion Soup Mix

Pork chops and apple sauce go together in my book so when I discovered I’d finished off all my home canned apple sauce, I made  a quick trip to the produce stand for

Apples $1.33

After that I individually wrapped the rest of the pork chops  and put them in the freezer for future meals.

 

Grocery Outlet $3.35

These helped my make

Hawaiian Pizza

In fact I think I made pizza 3 times this month.

Safeway $4.78

I wanted whole milk so I could make a batch of yogurt, but also grabbed the 2% when I saw it was marked down. With so much milk on hand I decided to use the day-old Honey Wheat rolls I brought home from work

free bread

to make bread pudding

Pioneer Bread Pudding

 

Safeway $.05 -no picture of the ginger root I needed to make

Honey Garlic Chicken

using some more of the chicken I’d stock piled.

The freezer still held a nice assortment of leftovers at the first of March so although I didn’t do a lot of cooking the past month I still had a varied diet.

For snacking, I made

Chex Mix

banana bread

and

Peanut butter bars

I took advantage of some loss leaders

Haggen’s $11.00

Grocery Outlet $9.69

QFC $4.50

Grand total:$123.63

and I still have $2.54 to supplement April’s grocery budget.

I still have lots of chicken, do you have a favorite recipe for me to try?

Same goes for pork recipes.