Tuesday's All You Grocery Challenge Results and EverNotes

Tuesday was another stockpile day, with a total spent of $0.00.

• Breakfast consisted of a package of instant Quaker Lower Sugar Oatmeal in Maple Brown Sugar, with a mid-morning snack of non-fat yogurt.
• Lunch was absolutely delicious - sliced turkey and jack cheese, on a Mission Jalapeno wrap, with lettuce and some free chipotle Sandwich Shop Mayo, courtesy of Kraft's First Taste program.
• Dinner wasn't the most exciting, salad, light blue cheese dressing and leftover macaroni and cheese.
• My late night snack was the usual bag of microwave popcorn.

Today is my weekly day in the office (gotta love telecommuting!), so I've actually spent some money on food. It's not that I don't have enough stockpiled food to bring in, I just want my 20 oz. hazelnut coffees and more importantly, my weekly slice of pepperoni pizza! It's my treat to myself for having to deal with the subway crazies. So, I now actually have two, soon to be three, receipts to file, for a total today of around $7.52. In addition to saving the actual receipts, I'm also using Evernote and my Blackberry's camera to store a copy of them in a publicly shared Evernote notebook, at http://www.evernote.com/pub/mscarolm/allyougrocerychallenge2010 As time goes on, this notebook will include receipts, recipes, notes and other items related to the challenge, so stay tuned.

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Monday's All You Grocery Challenge

Nothing overly exciting, aside from it being another $0.00 day.

• Breakfast was a bowl of stockpiled Raisin Bran and fat-free milk, along with a cup of coffee.
• Lunch was a stockpiled Morningstar Farms chick patty, with a slice of veggie cheese on an Arnold Sandwich Thin.
• For an afternoon snack I had a single-serving container of Yoplait Whippps Chocolate Mousse yogurt.
• Dinner was a salad with light blue cheese dressing, and a serving of Kraft Homestyle Macaroni and Cheese, which I "bought" with a free product coupon from Kraft's First Taste program.
• Evening snack was a bag of stockpiled light butter microwave popcorn.

So, I stayed within my Weight Watchers POINTS, and had a $0.00 spending day!

Today's All You Grocery Challenge Results

Today was a $0.00 day for me! Everything I've eaten today has been from my stockpile:-)

I woke up later than usual, so I skipped breakfast and just had coffee, with stockpiled supplies. Lunch was Kraft Homestyle Macaroni and Cheese that I got free with a coupon from Kraft's First Taste program, and dinner was a tossed salad with lettuce, tomatoes (purchased Friday) and blue cheese dressing from my stockpile with a Morningstar Farms veggie burger on an Arnold Sandwich Thin, also from my stockpile.

My late night TV snack will be a bag of microwave popcorn, also from my stockpile.

Total spent today=$0.00

It's HERE!!! The All You Magazine Grocery Challenge!!!

Today is Day 1 of the All You Magazine Grocery Challenge. The goal of the challenge is to feed your family healthy meals for $25.00 per person, per week for a month. Since my household currently consists of one person and two felines, that translates into a $25.00/week food budget for myself.

One great thing is that using previously stockpiled food counts as $0.00 for any stockpiled item, and I have a nice little stockpile going right now! As a means of documenting my stockpile, I've uploaded photos of it to an online photo album both on Picasa and on facebook.

I think I'm going to do things a little differently this year, as far as keeping track of my meals and costs per serving. Since I really need to do this anyway, I'm going to track my meals in my Weight Watchers Online POINTS Tracker. As far as recording my purchases and receipts, I haven't yet decided if I'm going to do this using Google Docs and blog entries, or a combination of Google Docs, blog entries and Evernote (or some other online organizational tool). It may be trial and error the first week, until I find the combination that's easiest to update and maintain regularly.

So far, everything today has been from the stockpile, and I have no plans to go outside in this heat. So, my total cost for today is looking like $0.00!

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