$25/Week/Person Grocery Challenge

You heard right! I am always up for a good challenge, just to prove everybody wrong! lol. There are only 2 adults in my house; myself & my very skeptical (and in fear of starvation) husband, Casey. I am not a huge fan of people underestimating my abilities to win any challenge, so he's ON!

I had wanted to do this for a while, especially considering before my healthy transformation about 2 years ago (the timeline is a bit off, but we have been eating a lot healthier for a while, however that was only our grocery shopping...we would still eat out constantly), we would spend about $200, but that was on the cheap, convenience, processed junk that is out there that resembles "food". 

And I declared 2013 as the year that we finally put a dent in our debt with a little plan I devised. So far, we have managed to pay off the remaining balance of our scooter & only about 5 credit cards to go, student loans & our cars...we also have a handful of medical bills due to Casey's back surgery last year. The end of the day, we refuse to do any type of filing of any kind & live off the principal that we got ourselves into this "mess" & we're the only ones who an get us out of it.

And to be honest, I am extremely tired of hearing people making up excuses that eating healthy is too expensive, that it can't be done if you're on welfare, blah blah blibbity blah! The only one you're hurting with those excuses are yourself & those around you.

So, this is what I did. Oddly enough, last month, the put a ton of the good frozen stuff on sale, like Life Light, veggie souffles, Gardein. I also had a ton of coupons, so lets just say we had a field day. We also bought some all natural chicken breasts & other frozen goodies from various grocery stores. But, coming off of the holiday, we were still in the "eating out" mode & hardly used any of it.

The bottom line is, that when we started in Feb, we still had a ton of protein, frozen veggies & good carbs in our kitchen. I refuse to be one of those blogs who has attempted this challenge to toss everything out of their kitchen & start fresh, because no matter what budget you're on, you are still going to have some sort of food surplus at the end of the month to carry you onto the following month. 

And on top of that all, I juice regularly; 1-2 times a day. My husband, not so much. So this budget has to encompass all of that. I do enjoy to cook & bake, so at least I have that on my side. 

Yesterday we finally went grocery shopping to pick up a few items. We (or I) decided to withdraw our budget in cash (to easily keep track of what we have left) and do it in $100 for the first 2 weeks & $100 the last 2 weeks.

Below is what we bought. We spent $59.07 yesterday - $24.98 of it went to my 10 lbs of apples & 25 lbs of carrots.

We bought:

5 gallons of spring water (yup, we don't drink tap because of the fluoride & other chemicals)
1 lb of freshly picked kale from our local U pick farm
10 lbs of apples
25 lbs of organic caarrots
7 beets (local veggie stand)
4 avocados (local veggie stand)
1 Chobani plain Greek yogurt
1 bag of rice crackers (Casey's!)
1 jar of Newman's own salsa
4 sweet potatoes (local veggie stand)
2 kiwis (local veggie stand)
bunch of bananas (local veggie stand)
50% reduced fat cheddar cheese (the 75% reduced fat cheese wasn't on sale)
4 heads of broccoli (local veggie stand)
mushrooms (local veggie stand)
4 green bell peppers (local veggie stand)
Organic blue corn tortilla chips
Box of WhoNu? "oreo" cookies

So, this will def be interesting! Think I can do it? Have any suggestions? Let me know!!!!