Project: Food Budget (Wk6) Nick's Family
Welcome back to week 6 of Project: Food Budget!
Veggie Meal-Maker is participating, along with roughly 30 other blogs, in a weekly challenge called Project: Food Budget. Each Thursday we will feature a different family (Nick, Trina or Krystle) sharing our food goals, our food budgets and an update on our meal-planning week. The goal is to give you a window into how different families manage their weekly meals. Your budget may be much higher or lower than ours, but you're sure to gain some insight as you follow along with Project: Food Budget!
GOAL: $100.00
ACTUAL: $69.69
SIZE OF FAMILY: Nick (Dad), Shae (Mom) & Paisley (15months)
FOOD GOALS: Cold cereal & fruit for easy breakfast, jarred baby food for picky Paisely, fresh fruit as snacks for Nick and a handful of new recipes for dinner.
MENU
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B |
L |
D |
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Cold Cereal & Fresh Fruit |
Eat Out |
Taco Salad & Guac |
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M |
" |
Leftovers |
Black Bean Burgers & Corn |
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T |
" |
Leftovers |
Fried Rice & Wontons |
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W |
" |
Leftovers |
Asparagus A La King |
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T |
" |
Leftovers |
Chickpea Curry |
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F |
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Leftovers |
Smoothies & Popcorn |
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S |
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Pasta & Salad |
Homemade Pizz |
PROUDEST SHOPPING MOMENT: My wife found a random coupon on the floor of the store that saved us $1 off of almond milk!
BIGGEST SPLURGE/INDULGENCE: Jars of baby food. We generally make baby food but our little gal has been rather picky lately and seems to enjoy the jarred variety...
SUMMARY OF WEEK: Before we went shopping I was anticipating blowing our budget. Often times when I am testing new recipes its easy to go over. In addition to all the food for the recipes there is the accompaniments that make the pictures look nice like fancy breads or other random sides. It adds up. Plus we were buying baby food for Paisley and those stupid little jars are pricey. So when we came in well under our budget I was delighted!
CONCLUSION: Good week for the food fund and some tasty new recipes! Win : win!
Checkout some of the other Project: Food Budget participants:
- Emily Levenson
- Dairy-Free Cooking
- Test Kitchen Tuesday
- Red Pen Mama
- Fit Flexitarian
- Warm As Pie
- Katy Rank Lev
- xox, b
- Project Food Budget 2.0
- That's Just Me
- Two Eggs Over Easy
- Eat Whole Be Vital
- Four Happy Violets
- Pgh Dad
- yogabeautylife
- Charmingly Modern
- naMAMAste
- Six Dollars a Day
- What da Health?
- Brandon and On
- French Press
- Veggie Meal Maker
- Eryn Says...
Nick Peterson
Nick is passionate about feeding his family healthy veggie food and helping others do the same. When not playing with food Nick can be found in the garden, on his mountain bike or adventuring with his family in their home, a 1966 Airstream travel trailer.
Follow the Peterson family adventures at: Livin’ Lightly Blog
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Hi,
Love the idea behind veggie meal maker. love that it will prepare a shopping list as well.
Will you be adding more recipes? The Kind Diet has some great recipes. Any juicing recipes? (my families personal favorite juice right now is beets, carrots, green apple, ginger, and a 1/4 lemon) Delicious.
Thanks.
Brenda
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