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Back on Track- Menu!

Notes: After a couple weeks set aside- I'm back posting my menu. The cost of groceries keeps sneaking up- 10 cents more here and 20 cents more there. We're still managing to keep the weekly cost hovering around $55 (including snacks and beverages which I don't calculate below). I pray that God will continue to help us stretch our grocery dollars to their max.
From the Garden: A few cucumbers plus tomatoes, hot peppers, green peppers and squash- from our garden and shared from others. We continue to enjoy thick sliced tomatoes as a side dish with most meals.

Monday 
B: Cranberry brown sugar oatmeal, toast
L: Diner Dinner (weekend leftovers)
D: One dish Chicken bake, sliced tomatoes & cukes
Dessert: Chocolate Sour Cream Cake- aka Autumn Yum Cake
Daily Cost: $8.63
Tuesday
B: Fruit and yogurt parfaits
L: Homeschool group lunch: bring: 2 bags of chips
D: Crockpot Cowboy stew, biscuits
Dessert: leftover cake
Daily Cost: $10.10
Wednesday
B: Choice: yogurt or cereal
L: chicken nuggets, corn chips, pickle spear
D: Poorman’s Steak, baked potatoes, salad
Dessert: root beer floats
Daily Cost: $9.06
Thursday
B: Eggs in a Basket, apple slices
L: Polka Dots
D: Apple pancakes, sausage
Dessert: fruit cocktail
Daily Cost: $8.66
Friday -Football Game
B: Leftover pancakes and sausage
L: English muffin pizzas—“Itty Bitty Pizzas”
D: Roo’s soup and h’made bread
Dessert: none
Daily Cost: $4.54
Saturday
B: Daddy Cook (eggs, toast, bacon etc)
L: Leftover Smorgasbord
D: Leftover Smorgasbord
Daily Cost: $3.00
Sunday
B: Cocoa Wheats, toast
L: Crockpot Stroganoff, salad
D: Dinner @ church
Daily Cost: $7.17
Weekly Total: $51.16
~~ Don’t forget to check out the yummy menu ideas every Monday over at The Organizing Junkie’s blog. You just might find your next favorite family recipe!

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2:48 PM, 2008-Sep-29 .. Posted by Lynne

Hi Amy,
First, what a beautiful family picture. You must be very proud of your family.
Have you considered taking your Sabbath on a day other than Sunday? That's what our ministers do. Since they, like you, work most of Sunday, they take another day off as their Sabbath and day of rest.

Hi Lynne!

3:25 PM, 2008-Sep-29 .. Posted by YPAmy5

We have tried that and it just didn't feel right. Mr. Steady felt that we needed to really teach the kids to find Sabbath Rest on the actual Sabbath- to learn to appreciate it and celebrate it. He is right. I found myself doing too many other things when we tried to move our Sabbath.
However- I do take Tuesdays off from all youth work if it possible. And I try very much to make it possible. And I try to keep from doing youth work on Saturdays too.
I make sure that my lesson for Sunday Nite youth meetings is all ready to go and I just do a final skim through and prayer time on Sundays.

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7:53 PM, 2008-Sep-29 .. Posted by RedneckGirl

I noticed you got some of your items at Aldi's. Do you find you save there? We have them here too but I"ve never shopped there. Do they take coupons? Is it cheaper there without coupons? I shop at Walmart mostly but I'm looking if it would be better to shop around than be at one place.

Aldi's Rocks

4:56 PM, 2008-Sep-30 .. Posted by YPAmy5

I do about 80% of my grocery shopping at Aldi's and have only noticed a few items that are the same price or higher than Wal-mart.
My grocery budget for 1 week is $50. If I had to do all my shopping at Walmart I believe it would at the very least cost me $75 for what I get at Aldi's.
I have to drive about 10 miles farther to Aldi's than to the closest Walmart but I believe it's worth that extra little bit of gasoline.