We all need to eat, but our food budget is where we seem to go first when wanting to save money.
In February our family of 6 is having a NO SPEND month. It's a month where you take a serious look a your families needs and wants. One are we are going to look at is our food budget.
Today I'm going to talk about BREAKFAST.
We normally buy the cheapest boxed cerals. Costs about $42.45 a month.
Instead we are going to use up what we have in our pantry, then buy Rolled Oats. So we can have either porridge or homemade museli for weekday breakfast. On the weekends we can have pancakes or egg on toast.
Hopefully we can lower the cost of ceral for the month.
Cheap Eats - Part One
January 29th, 2008 at 09:57 pm
January 29th, 2008 at 10:05 pm 1201644307
Wow, no spend month? Quite a challenge! Good luck, and let me know how you do it.
January 29th, 2008 at 10:47 pm 1201646869
January 29th, 2008 at 10:50 pm 1201647000
Something we do on the weekends is make extra pancakes and waffles, and then freeze them. Keeps me from having to buy overpriced frozen junk at the store ... I know what I put in the batter at home.
January 29th, 2008 at 11:26 pm 1201649172
Well, can I throw my 2 cents in if you don't mind? If you're not particular about the type of cereals, you can find some good deals. I normally don't pay more than $1.5 per box for cereal, and they are Kellogg, Post, and General Mills cereals. Same for oatmeal. I have about 10 boxes of Quaker oatmeal I paid 30 cents or 70 cents each. Keep your eyes on store ads and combine coupons to make the deal sweeter.
January 30th, 2008 at 06:14 am 1201673668
Where do you live?
Kitty