First day of the food stamp challenge

And Marty and I are sick :(

Breakfast went as planned, but we changed up lunch for the two of us . . . just had homemade potato soup. . . will have the planned pork chops for supper instead of lunch.

So far it looks like this:

Breakfast
cinnamon rolls (homemade) .40/person
milk - .12 (For Marty and Deana) tea for me .06

Lunch
homemade potato soup (3 potatoes, 2 cups milk, sprinkle of onion, salt/pepper) .55/bowl
tea .06
Deana took lunchmeat sandwich - .06 meat, .10 cheese, .15 bread = .31
chips .18
Ding Dong from bread store .15
generic soda .17

Stopped at Schnucks after work today

Today was the last day of their sale for this ad. . . They had lots of 10 for $10 sales.

I got:

18 oz. store brand oatmeal
4 oz. frozen clam strips x 3
1 lb. baby carrots
1 package celery
Oscar Meyer bologna
Oscar Meyer salami
head lettuce
Land O Lakes soft tub butter

plotting my menus for this week and next.

So. . . .

I agreed to the food stamp challenge, without consulting my family first. *blush* Fortunately, they are pretty good about stuff like this. . . my dd however, is convinced she will starve!

Sure hope there are lots of deals on her favorite things in the next couple of weeks.

Thinking of the food stamp challenge already

taking a sneak peak at a couple of the food ads online for next week (figure I'll be purchasing most of the foods for 19-25, sometime next week).

been perusing my old cookbooks for frugal recipes, and generally just thinking about what we'll do.

Feeding Illinois Hunger challenge

http://www.feedingillinois.org/challenge/

My family is going to do this challenge. We don't generally spend more that the allotted amount anyway, but it will be interesting to actually track it all.