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Living off of one income: groceries

     I started looking at our budget and realized that our grocery budget had got out of control.  I had always shopped at Aldi but we were wasting a lot of food and buying too many convince foods.   With just a few tweaks I was able to spend less money and my family was still happy with what I was making.   This was my $88 week.  I bought all the groceries I needed for our family of 5 to eat for a whole week for less than $89.  We also hosted game night, had an extra kid at our house for a couple of those days, and brought food to a pool party. Here's what we ate during our $88 week.  Breakfasts        One of the adjustments I had to make was to cut out cereal.  Although Aldi has plenty of cheap cereal our family was consuming a lot of it and with it milk.  We were spending at least $10 a week on extra milk and cereal.  When we make oatmeal the kids put apple sauce in it to sweeten it and top it w...