2023 Household and Personal Care: November

 Personal Care:

Mike haircut    $13      Great Clips

Pedicure   $33

Total     $46

Household:

2024 calendar   $1.31.     Dollar Tree

YTD

Personal Care:   $84.64  under budget

Household:     $58.30 under budget 

2023 Buying and Eating: December 1-15

Allocation     $341

Cushion     $ 860.22

     What WeAte:  tuna and cheese crackers, fruit salad;     Pasta with clam sauce and asparagus, cottage cheese and fruit, garlic biscuits;     Green chili enchilada casserole, cottage cheese with onion, corn chips;      Chick pea curry with spinach over rice, salad;     Seafood crepes and spinach salad;     Green chili casserole and spinach salad;     Ham loaf, smashed sweet potato, Korean salad;     Ham, edamame, salad, onion rings; kielbasa hash, fruit and yogurt; sloppy Joe, coleslaw, cheesy potato rounds;     Creamy avocado pasta, leftover salad, bread;     Leftover sloppy Joe, broccoli and blue cheese, marinated veggie salad 

What We Bought:

Sanders:  donuts(doz), scallops (#), yogurt (32oz), bananas (4#).   $15.83

Price Rite:  cheese (5#), sweet potato, spinach    $27.72

Aldi:  flour (15#), pie crusts (4pkg)   $13.13

Sanders:  bananas, tofu, broccoli   $2.98

Aldi:  cream cheese (2), Brie, mushrooms (3), butternut squash  $12.03

Price Rite:  spiral ham (11#), lettuce, sweet red pepper, tomatoes, cucumber, ricotta    $18.29

Two week grocery total:  $89.98

Eating Out:

Lunch to dc $4.17

Dinner and lunch dc.   $28.24

Dinner dc with girls.    $88.00

Lunch home from dc.    $2.73

Two week total eating out:  $123.14

Two Week Subtotal:  $213.12

Remaining Allocation:  $127.88

2023 Frugal Things in November

 1.   Mike and I received our covid and flu shots and earned $20 in free food at Giant Eagle.

2.  Mike took advantage of a few Veterans Day promotions and we ate for free that day.

3.  I used the grinder that attaches to my mixer to grind chicken, pork and ham for hamloaf.  It's cheaper to buy the basic meat and grind it myself.

4.  I used home ground pork to make homemade breakfast sausage.

5.  As part of Veterans Day, Mike received a few haircut voucher.

6.   We took advantage of the Thanksgiving sale on butter and stocked up for several months and saved about $45 in the process.

2023 Buying and Eating: November 16-30

 Remaining Allocation:   $228.70

Cushion:   $723.08

Subtotals For First Part of Month

          Grocery   $78.07

          Eating Out.     $23.23

          Two Week Subtotal:     $101.30

What We Ate:

Chicken pot pie soup and biscuits;     liver and bacon with onion, butter beans, cheesy potatoes;        Leftovers;      tuna and cheese;      pasta with clam sauce and garlic bread;    ham loaf, winter squash, baked potato;     Seafood crepes, potato rounds, peas;     Cornish hens, wild rice dressing with pecans, cranberries and apricots,  waldorf salad with bleu cheese and pecans, parmesan baked carrots, pumpkin pie;     Thanksgiving leftovers;     Pierogie casserole, Waldorf salad, three bean salad;     Asian chicken stir fry with onion pancakes and fresh mandarins and pineapple salad;     BBQ pork, baked beans, rice patties, cottage cheese and fruit salad;     Mulligatawny soup, open faced grilled cheese, fruit;     Cheesy potatoes and ham, green beans, cottage cheese and onion;     Kielbasa, Lima beans, rice patties, fruit and cottage cheese;     

 What We Bought:

Aldi:  butter (6). $14.94

Aldi:  butter (6), sour cream     $16.89

Giant Eagle:  clementines (3#)   $1.99

Co-op:  molasses  (1.2#).    $2.16

Aldi:  cream cheese (2), half and half, cranberries, carrots (2#), cabbage  (2.5#)    $12.66

Subtotal:  $48.14

Monthly Total:  $126.21     This includes 30 pounds of butter for the stockpile.

Eating Out:

Breakfast with the ladies.      $8.57

Hunting breakfasts          $32.00

Coffee with friends.    $2.85

Subtotal:  $43.42

Monthly Total:  $66.65

Monthly Grand Total:  $192.86       6.43/day      $3.22/person/day

YTD:     281 days

Grocery:    $1578.04.          $5.62/day.         $2.81/person/day

Eating Out:     $566.72.         $2.02/day.         $1.01/person/day

YTD Total:    $2144.78.         $7.63/day.         $3.82/person/day

2023: Household and Personal Care: October

 Personal Care:

Hair clips      $6    Dollarama

Body powder, deodorant     $3.75    Dollar Tree

Hand mirror.    $1.25       Dollar Tree

Total:  $11

Household:

Coffee filters (3)     $3.75     Dollar Tree

YTD:

Household:  $29.61 under budget

Personal Care:  $100.64 under budget

2023. Buying and Eating Out: November 1-15

 Allocation:   $330

Cushion:   $723.08

Breakfast Ideas:   homemade cinnamon rolls;    cornmeal muffins;    homemade bagels;     toasted homemade bread with peanut butter and jelly;     homemade waffles;     Sweet potato muffins;     Cinnamon toast;     Baked oatmeal;   Overnight oatmeal;     Homemade granola;     

Lunch is Leftovers

What We Ate at Dinner:   pierogi casserole, lima beans, Mixed fruit and yogurt;     Tuna chowder and grilled tuna and cheese on rye, homemade pickles;     Italian strata with sausage and spinach, rhubarb;     Orange chicken and fried rice with yogurt and fruit;     Hummus and spanakopita with yogurt and rhubarb;    Pesto pizza with fresh mozzarella, parmesan, onion and olives;     basil pesto pizza with fresh mozzarella, olives and onions;     rosemary chicken, stuffing, three bean salad, applesauce;     avocado pasta, French bread, salad;     Vegetarian tikki masala, curry potatoes, mixed vegetables, French bread;     ham loaf, creamed potatoes, butter beans, acorn squash;          Avocado pasta, fruit and vegetables;     Hamloaf, creamed potatoes and butter beans; leftover smorgasbord (2);     Chicken picatta, cheesy potatoes, three bean salad, butter beans, peach yogurt;          

What We Bought:

Wal-Mart:  eggs (3)  $3.72

Giant Eagle:   eggs  (5)  $4.95

Giant Eagle:    flour.    $1.49

Aldi:   cheese (2), mushroom (3), cranberries, marshmallows (3), butter (6), half and half , apples, onions, frozen peas(3), mixed vegetables (3), feta, cream cheese (2), cream of mushrooms soup (4), cream of chicken soup (4)     $50.86.  Took advantage of some Thanksgiving sales.

 Aldi:   butter (6)  $14.94

Aldi:  butter (6)   $14.94

Giant Eagle:  potatoes (10#), onions(2#)  $2.97:  

Total:  ,$78.07

Eating Out:

Taco Bell     $8.00     dinner after working the polls

Smokey Bones     $15.23    Lunch with Mike

Total:  $23.23

Two Week Subtotal:  $101.30

Remaining Allocation:  $ 228.70

2023 Frugal Things in October

 1.  I had a day of baking and made 14 English muffins, A loaf of artisan bread, banana bread , A dozen bagels and flatbread. After pricing them, I probably saved $20-25 and they taste wonderful.

2.  Meals centered on stock pile ingredients, keeping food costs way down.

3.  I received a large bag of yarn from a friend for Linus blankets.  Unfortunately, I forgot to count how many.  But I know that it saved a lot.