I am a day late with this but yesterday was one of those day when I was not home enough to post….

1. Emergency Fund at $1000 by the end of the month. I did some extra work at the Nursing home for the past two weeks so this should help. But in reality no extra money came in this week.

2. Grocery spending at $200 or less not including our Zaycon Food chicken order. We are continuing to eat out of our freezer with a couple of list going on. The first is on the side of the refrigerator, this is a list of items that will be purchased on the first shopping trip to Costco in October. The second list is a list of all the available meals that we can make. It has been helping as we can look and decide in the morning what will be for dinner that evening without checking three different place. I have already spent $80 of our $200 grocery budget. Our only local grocery store is having their “brand” sale this month. This basically is where you have an additional $0.25 off each item between 4-40 that is a store brand. We combined this with a regular sale to stock up on canned veggies at $0.25 a piece and frozen veggies at 0.75 a bag. I am really pleased in how much we were able to stock up and my plan is to stick to the budget!

I have decided to join Carla on her low spend/no spend September challenge.  I really need to do this to help beef up our Emergency Fund and get our spending/budgeting back on track for the year. She has set some lofty goasl but I decided to keep it simple but just as lofty!

1. Emergency Fund at $1000 by the end of the month. Both Matt and I are anticipating extra income this month in addition to any money we are able to save from our budget will hopefully make this reachable.

2. Grocery spending at $200 or less not including our Zaycon Food chicken order. We have already begun working on this!  We cleaned out our chest freezer this weekend and made a menu planned of approximately 20 meals that we can make with the items we found. Our plan is to stick to these meal and only purchase items that we are out of and need for regular days. I am hoping that this will be mainly bread, milk and eggs  but we had to purchase cat liter, tarter sauce and dog treats already so this may prove more difficult than I first imagined.