Live Below The Line Grocery List

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Live Below The Line starts this week and this is our list of groceries available for the week ($17.50 for 2 people for 5 days).  We took advantage of offers that were easily available to anyone such as Snapsaves, Checkout 51 and printable/easily ordered/found coupons.

  • Primo Pasta x 2 @ $0.49 at Fortinos = $0.98
  • 500g block cheese (from Target last week) = $1.49
  • Ground beef $2.50 (from butcher at $1.99/lb – he took pity on my challenge and through a little extra in after weighing/pricing)
  • Pasta sauce $0.88
  • Sunshine bread $1.44
  • 2 x cans vegetables $1.44
  • Mushrooms $0.88
  • Can beans $0.67
  • Zucchini $1.12 – $1 (Snapsaves $1 rebate) = $0.12
  • Fresh corn 3/$1 – $1 = free (Snapsaves rebate)
  • Chicken breasts $6.90 / 2 (split with my neighbour who is also doing the challenge) = $3.45
  • 5lb potatoes $0.90 (when Food Basics sold out at $1 a few weeks back I got a pile of rainchecks!)
  • Two oranges $0.98 – $0.25 x 2 (checkout 51) = $0.48
  • Box oatmeal $1.29

I have about $1 left to check for sale fruit / buy stuff that is close to free with coupons in the hope next week’s flyers are better as well as any seasonings we use from the cupboard.

I figure we can use the ground beef for several meals by bulking it up with the veggies and beans (use for chili, pasta sauce etc).  We have 4 large breasts of chicken – they are the frozen seasoned kind but at $17.50 a week, chicken breast is hard to find in the budget but the ground pork we ate last year is just not happening this year.  Obviously this would not have been possible without snapsaves/checkout51 (or at least we would be eating a lot less veggies) and the amazing cheese sale of last week.

Additions 

  • 2x Can baked beans $0.12 (clearance find) – $0.74 left for the week

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One Reply to “Live Below The Line Grocery List”

  1. Good luck. I have been known to cut chicken breasts length wise to stretch them farther. If you’re cutting them or using in a sandwich, it doesn’t really matter how thick they are.

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