$50 a Week Food Budget for a Family of 4

We are setting a budget of $50 a week for food for our family of 4, which is $200 for a 4-week month.  This pay period month happens to be a 5-week month, which means, I can get an extra $50 for that extra week for food.  I planned my meals out, planned my baking/goodies list and then made my lists and went shopping and will detail that in the next post.  Here are the goals.

Goals for December 10 - January 14
$250 Food budget
$120 Non-Food budget

I'm estimating that we will spend $40-$50 a month on just milk, since my baby is on whole milk now and drinks 18-24 ounces a day, sometimes more.  We also drink milk and use it in cooking, so it is a big part of our budget.  I only buy organic milk as well as we noticed better health since doing so several years ago.  We also buy bananas weekly, apples bi-monthly, and salad mix bi-monthly.  I also sometimes get a few more things likes kiwi, pears or carrots.  Totaling for all these is about $30 for produce.  I've been buying bread instead of making it because we found a bread that we really like that has no HFCS in it but it is costing us $20-$25 a month for bread.  Total for milk, produce and bread is about $80 a month.  So that leaves me with $120 in a 4-week month, but this 5-week month leaves me with $150.

Weekly & Bi-Monthly Food Purchases Cost - 5-week pay period month
Milk - $50
Produce - $30
Bread - $25
Total -- $100
Left for other foods - $150