Household $40/month
Air freshener for garbage cans. $1.25. Tops
Artificial flowers for urns $25.00 Thrift stores
Coffee filters (2pkg) $5.84. Walmart
$27.09
$9.91 under
Personal Care. $20/month
Haircuts for Mike and Sandy. $30.
$10 over
Sunday, June 7, 2026
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
2026. Frugal Things in May
1. We sent a new prescription to the pharmacy at a grocery store and received $15 credit towards food.
2. I mixed leftover vegetables soup and leftover beef barley soup, adjusted the seasoning and used it as a base for cottage pie. It was easy and delicious.
3. I made a large batch of Cuban black beans. Part was eaten as soup and part was turned into spicy black bean burgers. The leftover burgers became burritos.
4. I had two containers I needed to fill with artificial flowers. I couldn’t find any I liked at a price I wanted to afford. So, I went to three different thrift stores and bought premade arrangements. I then took them apart and used the flowers to fill my containers. They look bright and cheerful and only cost a total of $25.
5. I made rye, white and soda bread for quite a savings over store prices.
2026. Buying and Eating: May 1-31
Allocation. $13x31 =$403
Cushion. $ 592.08 at the beginning of May
YTD. As of end of May. 104 + 31=135 days
YTD grocery. $345 + 369.89=$714.89 $5.30/day $2.65/person/day As of the end of May. This includes the $300 CSA cost for the summer.
YTD eating out. $74.20 + $38.88=$113.08 $0.84/day $0.42/person/day as of the end of May
YTD total $499.92 + $8,27.92=$1327.89 $9.84/day $4.92/person/day as of the end of May
New Cushion Amount $573.31 at the end of May. Including the CSA, we were $18.77 over budget in May
What We Ate: leftover quiche, dauphinois potatoes and zucchini Leftover chicken pot pie, broccoli citrus salad, roasted beets. Fried bologna sandwich and cheesy potato rounds Corned beef and noodle casserole, broccoli citrus Salad, green bean casserole Pork schnitzel , pierogie, pears with bleu cheese ; Tacos and bean dip with chips (2) Beef barley soup with cheddar biscuits Cottage pie; Lobster roll and buttered noodles with garlic, cheese and peas; Pasta with lobster, Broccoli, pears, biscuits; Cottage pie, fruit salad, cabbage salad Vegetarian tikka masala, tortillas , rice, fruit salad. Cuban black bean soup, crackers, fruit and yogurt Steak on the grill, Asian spicy soy noodles, baked beans, applesauce Grilled pork loin, Three bean salad, potatoes Anna. BBQ chicken, baked beans, bean salad, baked sweet potato Frozen pizza, chips Huevos ranchero’s Black bean burgers, macaroni salad, pickled beets Tuna macaroni salad, homemade soda bread, fruit and yogurt, corn on the cob Asian orange chicken, fried rice, onion pancakes Black bean tortilla bowls, guacamole and chips corn Glazed ham steak, garlic and butter asparagus, deviled eggs, potato pancakes Angel hair pasta with clam sauce, homemade garlic bread sticks, jello with mandarin oranges Salisbury steak with noodles, fried apples, onions and cabbage, jello with mandarin, garlic bread sticks Hot chicken salad, roasted Brussels sprouts, applesauce (2) Clam Chowder, assorted salads Mexican pizza with chips and salsa
Eating Out:
Lunch with Joyce $12.37 Taco Bell
Mike lunch in Cleveland $2.68 Sams
Lunch with Mike $8.47 Arby’s
Mike breakfast with Gannon guys b$2.53 McDonald’s
Lunch with the ladies $12.83
What We Bought:
Mason Farms: 15 week CSA. $300 or $20/week. Went into the cushion to cover
Tops: Doritos, cheese. $4.87. Special coupons for both
Tops. Italian cheese. $0.88. Spec sale
Tops. Sweet potato (6), butter, eggs (2), cream cheese, pasta, potato chips. $9.32. All sale items
Aldi. Boneless Pork but roast (11#), mushrooms (2), avocados (2). $25.13. All sale items. We will make Italian, breakfast and kielbasa sausage with the pork
Aldi. Carrots (2#). $1.99
Sanders: Potatoes,corn, onions. $ $5.56 Two sale items
Tops. Bush’s beans, hamburger buns, asparagus $6.68 All sale items
Aldi. Chips(3), cheese (5). 13.08. Sale items
Walmart. Popcorn. $2.38
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