We Made It! $100 Grocery Budget for a Month! (Includes Episode Guide & Shopping List)

So how exactly did I spend my $100? Over the course of the month I spent around $67 at Food Loin. This included

Whole chicken legs for $2.97
Onions for $1.99
10 lbs of potatoes for $5.98
1 lb of cheese for $3.79
36 eggs for 6.18
Butter for $2.50
Condensed tomato soup for 0.99
2 cans of green beans for 1.28
2 bundles of bananas for $2.44
Carrots for $2.19
Brussel Sprouts for $1.99
Pork loin on markdown for $2.84
Ground pork for $3.49
Cubed steaks for $3.64
A head of cabbage for 1.74
Pasta for $0.99
Alfredo sauce for $1.99
2 cans of seasoned black beans for $1.72
A can of corn for 0.64
Poblano Salsa for $1.89
6 roma tomatoes for $1.87
A lime for 0.33
Breakfast Sausage for $2.39
Cucumber for 0.50
Celery for $1.19
Lettuce for 0.99
Canned fire roasted tomatoes for 0.98
White beans for 0.86
Thin sliced chicken breasts for $2.47
Fiesta beans on closeout for $0.90
Pork chops for $3.27

At Dollar tree I spent $30 on

2 jars of peanut butter
Strawberry preserves
Garlic & herb seasoning
Plain Oatmeal
Maple brown sugar oatmeal
Milk
Rice
2 loaves of white bread
Flour
Tomato soup
Pork n beans
Wheat bread
Hamburger buns
Chocolate covered pomegranates
String cheese
Bbq sauce
Potato chips
Italian dressing
Black olives
Bologna
Pepper stir fry
And polish sausage

And here is the full list of meals as well as the corresponding episode to reference for the recipes.

Episode 1 covered day 1, I made banana baked oatmeal, grilled cheese with tomato soup, and chicken with roasted vegetable and Brussel sprouts

Episode 2 covered days 2 through 5, in this episode I used the leftover vegetables from dinner to make a pureed vegetable soup, I also shared a potato and egg breakfast skillet which quickly became a favorite throughout the series, and I made country fried steak

Episode 3 was finishing off the last couple of days of the first week, in this episode we made burrito bowls, homemade flour tortillas, and cabbage rolls

Episode 4 covered the entire 2nd week, in this episode I made a baked chicken alfredo pasta, I finished off a lot of leftovers, I prepped a batch of breakfast burritos as well as some Starbucks inspired PB&J Boxes, and i cooked up the pork loin which I used to make BBQ Sandwiches

Episode 5 was days 15 through 18, in this episode I made pasta salad, chicken sandwiches, and a vegetable soup from scraps I had been saving and freezing

Episode 6 was days 20 through 25. I made a breakfast casserole, pork chops with baked potatoes and green beans, and I started to revisit some earlier meals that I had prepped and frozen.

And that brings us to today’s episode, finishing out the series. I also have made a playlist for all of the episodes in this series.

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