$90 a Week Groceries for a Family of 4

Since I'm starting a $250 a month challenge for May, I decided to do a post showing how we have been feeding our family of 4 on $360 a month - $90 a week.  This is our most recent week, what we spent, purchased and what we ate.  I plan meals for Saturday through Friday, so we are actually in the middle of this week that I'm sharing.  We do stockpile as we can when there is a good sale and it all evens out because some weeks we don't spend the whole $90.

I made some homemade hummus, blueberry muffins and then will also be making boiled eggs for snacks, granola bars, health balls and a few other things.

Dinner Meals

Easter dinner at church (Free)
Chicken w/Noodles & Mixed Vegetables (Crockpot)
Pasta Fagioli (Instant Pot)
Beef & Bean Burrito Bowls (Instant Pot)
Coconut Chicken & Rice (Instant Pot)
Red Beans & Rice (Instant Pot)
Pizza

We utilized what we had in our pantry, some things like coconut milk in my fridge, I wanted to use up, so I found a recipe to use it in.  The Pizza is not a recipe - it's a cheap pizza from Aldi's frozen section and one I don't eat because I can't do heavy tomato meals like pizza often.  You can see that I LOVE to cook with my Instant Pot!  Not only is the food so delicious but it is so fast and easy clean-up as well.


Here's what we purchased from Aldi and Kroger for this week:
  
Aldi

At Aldi, we got frozen broccoli, turkey and beef uncured hot dogs, frozen pizza, whipped cream cheese, uncured turkey sandwich slices, uncured ham sandwich slices, frozen corndogs, yogurt, 1/2 gallon organic whole milk, pasta, egg noodles, head of cauliflower, organic apple juice, condensed cream of chicken (stockup), can diced tomatoes, pickles, cookies, granola bars, crushed red pepper flakes (stockup), Coconut cashew snack, ranch dressing, pretzels, bread and bagels.  We also purchased non-grocery items of zip bags and napkins.


Kroger

At Kroger, we got organic apples, bananas, organic onions, Dr. Pepper (My bad), Soymilk, Burritos and Cheezit's that my daughter begged for.  Because we did U-Scan and spent $35, we got $5 off - so basically the Cheezits were free and then some.  I don't normally spend that much for the Dr. Pepper but I had run out and it wasn't on sale.  I also don't normally buy organic onions but that is all they had and I was kicking myself for not getting the onions at Aldi for $1.49.  We stocked up on the burritos because we all have been having more of them for snacks.  I've tried to wean of us that but they are so convenient and quick and taste good.

So all together we spent $83.60 but we also purchased (not shown), 4 2-liters of soda for our Easter dinner at church, so right under $90 for this past week.