Cheap Groceries ($30) for a Week | Cheap Food Challenge

My boyfriend and I spent only $60 total ($30 each) on a week of groceries! Did we survive? What did we eat? If you have ideas for future challenges for me/us, let me know!

Timestamps:

0:00-3:07: Introduction
3:07-8:29: Grocery haul and initial costs
8:29-28:55: The week
28:55: Final thoughts

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Meals we cooked and ate:
7 bean soup
whole wheat bread
curried cauliflower and carrots with rice (Video here: https://youtu.be/J0vL-ZQ2X38)
baked chicken and rice (and peas)
Greek pasta salad
eggs with potatoes
butter chicken (Video here: https://youtu.be/NFO9B2H1Rzc)
Pasta with tomato sauce (Video here: https://youtu.be/W6TOjtQ5qnE)
Cabbage salad with homemade dressing, chickpeas, and eggs
Juice and soda
tea
Bananas
Free popcorn from our friends

Joshua typically eats 2 meals per day, whereas I eat 3. Since we came out with 83 cents to spare, however, he could have easily eaten a bunch of potatoes with that money to equal the volume and type of foods I ate for my breakfasts, so I doubt that I personally went over $30 (and if I did, not by much.)

[INGREDIENT AMOUNTS]

Winco purchases that week: (* = I didn't eat 100% of what I thought I'd eat of that ingredient)
All 10 chicken thighs
*1.25 cups cream (7/8 cup for tea and 3/8 cup for butter chicken) - I only drank 1 cup cream because it's not a full 2 TBS of cream per cup of tea - $0.28 in savings
Half gallon organic milk
1/4 5 lb bag russet potatoes
1 pound kielbasa sausage
*9 eggs (I ate all but 1 egg white) - each egg was $0.105, so about $0.03 in savings
2 liter jug juice
1.5 cups dried mixed beans
*1 12 oz can evap milk (I only drank 7/8) - $0.11 in savings
*3 onions (I left half an onion) - $0.20 in savings
1 tbs black pepper
2 tbs curry powder
1.5 cups chickpeas
1 head cauliflower
1 bunch bananas
1 large sweet potato
1 turnip
1 lemon
The rest of the juice I already made (about 60 cents worth)

Winco Total: $28.11 (-$0.62)

Ingredients I already had from previous weeks: (* = I didn't eat 100% of what I thought I'd eat of that ingredient)
Canned tomatoes: $1.07
1 frozen juice: $0.98
1 can olives: $1.50
The rest of the feta: $4
Most of the rest of the artichoke hearts: $2
3 cups white rice: $1.50
1 cup brown rice: 65 cents
Half a cabbage: $0.50
1 small tomato: $0.30
1 cup white flour: 12 cents
1 cup wheat flour: 25 cents
2 tsp yeast: 75 cents
*1 stick butter + 1 cup better-butter (it's technically 7 tablespoons pure butter and 1 cup better butter): $1.97 (I only ate 2/3 of the better butter) 1.69 for 2 sticks of butter, .28 for the oil.
.79 for the 7 tbs butter
2/3 of 1.18 (all the better butter) = .78
Butter total: $1.55
Butter savings: (1.97-1.55) : $0.42
Butter chicken spices: 50 cents
1 stalk celery: 25 cents
4 carrots: 50 cents
1/4 cup vegetable oil for curried veggies: 22 cents
Tea (25 cups caffeinated and simple decaf): $3.77
1/4 cup sugar: 3 cents
12 oz frozen peas: $1
A head of garlic: 50 cents
A half head of garlic: 25 cents
The bit of ginger I need for butter chicken: 25 cents
Red wine vinegar for Greek salads: 10 cents
Olive oil for Greek salad (before I discovered I could use artichoke heart marinade): 37 cents
A bit of cilantro: 20 cents
Rooibos tea (25 cents per bag)
Hone for my first bread (1.333 TBS): 38 cents
Half a can of juice for Joshua: 49 cents
2 TBS parm for Joshua's pasta: 50 cents
1 tsp Italian seasoning and red pepper flakes: 25 cents
1/4 cup red wine: 16 cents
Little piece of candied ginger Joshua ate: 10 cents
Joshua's coke habit: $1.74
Rooibos tea: 25 cents
An extra caffeinated tea: 20 cents

Add-ins total: $26.72 (-$0.42)

Tomatoes, cucumbers, parsley at the Indian market: $5.06

Pre-Grand Total: $60.21 (minus the bits I didn't eat, $1.04)
Actual Grand Total: $59.17

I was going to list in detail everything we ate for each meal each day, but the description was too long, so I'll just note here that if a meal wasn't shown in the video, we were eating leftovers.

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