How to Eat For $15 a Week • Dollar General

https://youtu.be/xr2Y7gxFbsc How low do you think you could go with your grocery budget? What if you only had $15 to feed yourself for the whole week? What would you buy? What if there was only one place to buy groceries in town, and that place happened to be a nontraditional establishment to purchase groceries from?  I decided to put this idea to the test and see what kind of meals I could get out of $15 at the Dollar General. This is to feed myself for an entire week: breakfast, lunch, and dinner.  Why the Dollar General? I do these…

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Instant Pot Butternut Squash Soup

https://youtu.be/nUx2SdYkGvY (As an Amazon Affiliate I may earn commissions for purchases made through links in this post. This supports me as a creator, but never increases the cost for you. For more information, view my site disclosures.)Happy fall y'all! The changing of the seasons means that fall squash and other produce are the cheapest I can find them all year. And that means it's fall soup season in my house! I wanted to share with y'all the recipe for my absolute favorite fall soup, butternut squash soup!The Ingredients2 apples (Fuji, Honeycrisp, Gala, Granny Smith, Golden Delicious, etc are all great choices.…

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Homemade Ravioli from Dollar Tree

https://youtu.be/Eq8uq5IVrRA I recently cooked up some ravioli from the Dollar Tree and not the premade frozen stuff (well technically that too, but we'll get to that later)! I've seen the frozen stuff featured in lots of videos and blogs, when it occurred to me that I could probably just make some homemade ravioli using ingredients exclusively from the Dollar Tree.  Why the Dollar Tree?Though ingredients at the Dollar Tree are limited in variety and not always the best bang for your buck, I decided to use dollar store ingredients as a challenge to myself and as a demonstration in being flexible,…

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How to Eat For $10 a Week • Dollar Tree

https://youtu.be/wJcR_tmbKEM How low do you think you could go with your grocery budget? What if you only had $10 to feed yourself for the whole week? What would you buy? I decided to put this idea to the test and see what kind of meals I could get out of $10 at the dollar tree. This is to feed myself for an entire week: breakfast, lunch, and dinner.  Why the Dollar Tree? I plan to try out this idea with several different stores where people go for groceries, and this time happens to be the Dollar Tree. While the Dollar…

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What Did We Eat This Week – How to Eat Well on a Budget • Week 4 of a full month!

*This post was drafted in September but published in January due to an illness and death in my family. Apologies for any confusion on the continuity of this four part series. Hi friends! If you're new here, welcome!This is the latest addition to a series of blog posts I've been writing in which I document and detail the costs of all the groceries I bought that week, as well as the costs of everything I actually use to feed my household of 3 adults. Specifically, this is the final week of a full month of tracking my grocery and meal costs. If…

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What Did We Eat This Week – How to Eat Well on a Budget • Week 3 of a full month!

*This post was drafted in September but published in January due to an illness and death in my family. Apologies for any confusion on the continuity of this four part series. Hi friends! If you're new here, welcome!This is the latest addition to a series of blog posts I've been writing in which I document and share my grocery haul for the week, the meals I made that week, and how much everything cost to feed my household of 3 adults. Specifically, we've made it to week 3 of a solid month that I am detailing. If you'd like a quick link…

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What Did We Eat This Week – How to Eat Well on a Budget • Week 2 of a full month!

Hi friends! If this is your first time here, welcome!This is the latest addition to a series of blog posts I've been writing in which I document and share my grocery haul for the week, the meals I made that week, and how much everything cost to feed my household of 3 adults. Specifically, this is week 2 of a solid month that I am documenting. If you'd like a quick link to read week 1 first, HERE YA GO.If you are stuck trying to figure out "What's for dinner?" or looking for ideas to stretch your grocery budget further, I…

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What Did We Eat This Week – How to Eat Well on a Budget • Week 1 of a full month!

Welcome new friends and returning readers!This is my 3rd round of recording and photographing a full week of what groceries I bought, what I made to eat, and how much it all cost for my household of 3 adults. And what's really exciting, is I'm going to keep track for a full month to give a fuller picture of what my shopping and cooking habits look like, so look out for 3 more consecutive weeks of posts!If you are stuck trying to figure out "What's for dinner?" or looking for ideas to stretch your grocery budget further, I hope you can…

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What Did We Eat This Week #2 – How to Eat Well on a Budget!

Hey there!This is my second week of semi-meticulously tracking and photographing not only how I spent money on groceries for the week for a family of 3 adults, but also what I actually made us to eat and the cost of those meals. I hope this gives you some inspiration for your own life, whether that be for ideas on how to cut costs from your grocery budget or ideas on what to actually make for dinner if you're feeling stuck. It is definitely possible to eat well on a budget!As for some disclaimers:We all have different dietary needs.We all have…

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