Food is always a huge part of any celebration for us! This year did not disappoint! We started on Wednesday morning with a trip to Cracker Barrel for breakfast! Lunch/ Dinner was a really cool burger bar in Asheville called Juicy Lucy!
We enjoyed microwave breakfast meals in our camper both Thursday and Friday mornings! These are a huge treat for us and at $27 for both mornings way cheaper than eating out! On Thursday, we enjoyed lunch at the Stable Cafe at Biltmore.
Christmas Eve, Friday, was our usual Pork BBQ with the addition of baked beans and mac and cheese! This is definitely a repeat.
For Christmas morning/ lunch I made cheddar bay sausage balls, cream cheese cresant rolls and a hashbrown casserole. For dinner we simply ate from the fridge with the healthy addition of deviled eggs, fruit and a veggie tray.
Sunday or the day after Christmas continued our food celebration, my Sunday school class had a pot luck breakfast, lunch was at La Caretta (Mexican) and dinner is appetizers at a gathering of friends.
After all this, I am sure a food coma is going to occur soon!
I have also had a chance to view out grocery spending for the year. I am very excited to announce that we spent $6,312.75 on groceries this year which is an average of $526.06 a month!!! This is actually a decrease in the overall average from last year. I have been doing some thinking and planning. I want to challenge myself to keep grocery spending to $50 a week for the months of January, February, March and May. We are travelling to Disney in April so I am not sure if that is realistic to even attempt to keep this same budget in April. This will allow us to hopefully use up the majority of the food that is in our freezers so I can spend some time next summer, restocking with items that we currently are enjoying and make a bunch of prepared meals. It will also allow me to get a realistic idea of what we need to spend on a weekly basis for fresh food and diary items.
