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Challenges about Budgeting and Grocery Shopping

Budgeting and grocery shopping is one of the best ways to trim down your monthly expenses and daily spending- but there are dozens of challenges out there- especially the advice that is ultimately unrealistic. Here is a list of budgeting and grocery shopping challenges and how you can make them realistic strategies to save on grocery shopping! Challenges about Budgeting and Grocery Shopping Challenge #1- Unrealistic Research I've spent a lot of time scouring Pinterest and have not felt entirely satisfied with the results. Some articles seem too unreasonable to be applicable. More often than not, it comes down to unrealistic costs of groceries . For example, I cannot find 1 gallon of milk at my local Walmart for $1. And our Dollar Tree out in Montana doesn't have a grocery section- we do have a freezer section, but it is only 2-3 doors of frozen dinners. And our bread and produce is not as cheap as the other articles. What I have done to get around this challeng
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Turkey Tacos

It's cheap and aliterate! 😉 Bonus is when you choose Tuesday or Thursday in your meal plan. HAH! There seems to be a lightness to having turkey over beef for some recipes- for instance, turkey chili is equally delicious as a beef substitute. This week, I plan to make turkey tacos for Night 1 and the next day, we will make nachos with the leftovers. At our grocery store, ground turkey is outrageously priced- sometimes almost $5 for 1 package (which I'm pretty sure is almost 1 pound). But if you Buy in Bulk at Costco, then you can get 12 pounds of ground turkey for like $18-22. Which means, 1 dinner with ground turkey has the starting cost of $1.58. Last week at SuperOne, we got Romaine Lettuce for $2.28 and we will be using about 1/2 of that, the tomato was $0.57, the taco seasoning packet for $0.58; then there will be the cheese, onion, and garlic. In all, it's another $5 Dinner for 2.
Turkey Tacos

Ingredients

  • 2 lb ground turkey- cooking entire package and storing 1/2 for Night 2
  • 1/2 head of Romain lettuce
  • Chopped tomatoes (for me) and salsa (for Kyler)
  • Cheese
  • 1-2 Cloves of Garlic
  • 1 Onion
  • 1 packet of taco seasoning
  • 1 cup of warm water
  • Sour Cream (optional)
  • Mission Tortillas

Directions

  1. Mix 1 cup warm water with seasoning packet- set aside
  2. In a large, hot pan: combine chopped onion, minced garlic and turkey meat.
  3. Stir frequently and when turkey is almost finished cooking, add water and seasoning mix
  4. The pan will be very watery. Continue cooking the meat until the seasoning has been soaked up by the turkey meat
  5. Chop some lettuce and dice tomato
  6. Combine ingredients in a flour tortilla and enjoy!

We have many Calphalon dishes (I am only slightly obsessed with them). Anyways, we use our 'giant' one (12-inch) and it is big enough to cook all 2 pounds of the turkey meat evenly. The first time I tried cooking the turkey meat was in our 8 inch, and it wasn't wide enough to keep space between the chunks.


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