Grocery Coupon Guide

The sugar withdrawal hit big time and it’s not fun. It is very similar to the withdrawal I went through when I quit my soda habit a few years back. I spent the day dreaming that this next week brings a wonderful deal on Ben & Jerry’s ice cream because I happened to find a great coupon for $1.00 off 1 pint at my local 7-11 store (this should make it free / nearly free sometime in late summer, so it may be well worth your time to look to see if your local 7-11 has them). Dark chocolate would also be great (I’m still mad at my sister for taking away the chocolates I bought). I’m definitely craving something sweet…

This is part of a month long challenge to eat well while spending an average of only $1 a day on food. You can find the beginning and the rules of this challenge here

Breakfast

I woke up and had my single packet of oatmeal with 1/4 banana to start the day and take my medicine. This should be normal routine for the next week until I finish off the antibiotics.

Once two hours had gone by, I made my regular breakfast. I had a bowl of Corn Flakes with the other 1/4 of banana. I also scrambled up a couple of eggs and topped them with salsa — mmm mmm good:

Lunch

Lunch was the usual – peanut butter with banana wrapped in a whole wheat tortilla (I’m down to less than ten tortillas left and I’m starting to get worried about what I am going to do when they run out…) I also added an apple (one cut in half and filled with peanut butter and the other plain) and then a handful of Wheat Thins:

Dinner

I actually was out most of the day and got back late so needed to throw something together really quickly for dinner. I took the left over long grain brown rice and heated it up with some of the salsa. I then added an egg on top and another spoonful of salsa with an a full apple on the side. Although it didn’t look all that pretty, it was great:

I did get hungry later in the evening and grabbed another handful of Wheat Thins and a cream cheese mini to crave some of the late night munchies.

I didn’t buy anything new and I am still planning to hold out until the weekend if I can unless there is an opportunity to get something for free. Since this past week didn’t offer any grocery store freebies or money makers that I could use to my advantage, I’ve been thinking of other possible ways to accomplish this in other ways — we’ll see if I can come up with something. I can’t believe that the first week is almost over…

This is the current list of what I have purchased:

Money Spent $9.71
Money left to spend: 21.29
Retail Value of everything bought: $263.24

1 jar of salsa
1 bag of black beans
1 half gallon of milk
4 boxes of Corn Flakes
1 dozen eggs
2 avocados
5 bananas
2 boxes of Quaker Instant oatmeal
14 packs of Philadelphia Cream Cheese Minis
1 package of Knudsen Light sour cream
10 apples
2 lbs of carrots
4 boxes (small) of Wheat Thins
1 jar of Skippy All Natural peanut butter
2 cans of pork and beans
1 bag of long grain brown rice
2 packages of Mission 100% whole wheat tortillas (10 count each)

Donated Food to Food Bank that was purchased with my $1 a day

4 boxes of cereal
50 packs of Philadelphia Cream Cheese Minis
4 boxes (small) of Wheat Thins
1 Scrubbing Bubbles Extend-A-Clean bathroom cleaner
1 Scrubbing Bubbles Extend-A-Clean bathroom cleaner refill

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