Fit in 40 days: day 3

I am thankful I can laugh at myself and the things I do! Today was Jack's last day of 4th grade. He has had such a rotten year and has done so well at his new school, that when he asked for a Pizza Party to celebrate, I was not going to say no.

You know he's the baby in the family, right??

So they boys had pizza for dinner (I had a buy one get one free coupon, so at least a small victory there!) and I had this:

Salad with light ranch and 3 oz of crispy chicken. You can almost imagine how fantastic that tasted up against a nice, gooey, greasy pizza....so I may have had a couple pieces of pizza. But not many.

Got my run in today, too. Hitting Aldi tomorrow and Kroger on Friday. Busy weekend of friends and family coming to visit. Should be another good weekend to kick off Summer!

Speaking of grocery shopping: I watched the Rachael Ray show on Tues and they did a grocery budget swap with two families: One family used to be on food stamps and now sticks to a strict $60/week budget for a family of 4. The other family has no budget and can spend close to $600 (HUNDRED) a week in groceries. The guy is a chef and buys only the highest quality ingredients. So she had them swap. The $60/week gal didn't know what to spend her money on so she bought a lot of meat/poultry. She said that after just a couple days of eating such rich food, they felt horrible. She said they felt better when they had beans or rice or pasta a couple times a week. The $600/week family lasted about two days and then resorted to take out. The guy could not stand cooking just regular ground beef for a meal.

How much do you spend on groceries a week for your family? What will you splurge on? Our family of 5 spends about $110/week. That does NOT include the $100 we spend at our meat market every 6-8 weeks. I am pretty good at making the good stuff stretch but really want the kids to eat more meat/poultry/fish than processed stuff. So that meat bill will be going up this summer. And that's ok if it helps them develop better habits.

Would love your feedback on your grocery bills and where you scrimp and where you splurge.

Thanks for reading!

Cat