$47 Grocery Week for 2 ($23.50 per person) | Dollar Meal Ideas

$46.85 for a week’s groceries for 2 people ($23.42 per person.) That’s less than most Americans spend on food, but it’s not that hard to eat well for that amount as long as you shop at a discount store like Winco. This was quite similar to my food budget and what I ate in college. A lot of meal prep.

These portions are for an 1800 calorie diet.

Time stamps:
00:00 welcome to the jungle
0:32 shopping trip
2:07 going over the haul and prices
11:49 breakfast: milk tea and buttered toast (days 1-7)
14:47 lunch: spaghetti with sauce (days 1-5)
19:32 dinner: baked chicken thighs with buttered rice and peas (days 1-5)
22:42 making free chicken broth from scraps
23:26 lunch: rice pudding (day 6)
25:55 dinner: beef stew (days 6-7)
29:26 lunch: buttered popcorn (day 7)
30:08 ingredients I had leftover and closing thoughts

Cost of food not eaten: $0.39
Actual cost of food per person for week: $23.23

*I also got a few cents off the grocery bill for bringing my own bags
*I noticed later from my receipt that I was charged for sweet onions instead of yellow onions. Sweet onions are twice as expensive as yellow onions, so I was overcharged by about $1 :(
*Joshua’s juice calories were not included.

Shopping list: 1 loaf orroweat bread (18 slices), 1 pound butter, 20 chicken thighs, 4 cups rice, 2 pounds frozen peas, 2 gallons milk, 2 28 oz cans tomatoes, 2 onions, 1 head garlic, 1 tbs italian seasoning, 1 tsp red pepper flakes, 3 tbs salt, 1 tbs pepper, ½ cup sugar, 3 pounds spaghetti, 3 cans juice concentrate, 7 apples, 1.5 pounds beef for stew, 2 tsp thyme, 2 potatoes, 2 carrots, 1 tsp cinnamon, 1/3 cup dried raisins, 3 tbs flour, 1/2 cup pop corn kernals, 1 box twinings tea

Leftover food at the end of the week: 3 tbs butter, ¼ cup popcorn, ¾ cup rendered chicken fat

*Price and calorie calculations are per person. We both ate the same thing (unless otherwise noted) except Joshua had juice and I had tea.

DAY 1-5
B: 1 piece toast with 1/2 tbs butter, 2 cups milk with 1/2 tsp sugar (as milk tea) (*Joshua just had plain milk)
L: spaghetti with sauce
D: 2 chicken thighs with 1/3 pot rice and 1/2 cup peas with 1 tbs butter
Snack: a half apple

DAY 6
B: 1 piece toast with 1/2 tbs butter, 2 cups milk with 1/2 tsp sugar (as milk tea) (*Joshua just had plain milk)
L: Beef stew
D: rice pudding! (the leftover 3 cups milk, 2/3 pot leftover rice, 1/4 cup sugar, 1 tsp cinnamon, 1/2 cup dried cherries
Snack: 1 apple each

DAY 7
B: 2 pieces toast with 1 tbs butter, 2 cups milk with 1/2 tsp sugar (as milk tea) (*Joshua just had plain milk)
L: Beef stew
Snack: 1 heel of bread with ½ tbs butter, 4 oz milk
D: 1/4 cup popcorn with 1.5 tbs butter

CALORIE AND PRICE BREAKDOWN:
Spaghetti with Sauce:
Tomatoes: $2.20 (350 cal)
4 tbs butter: $0.37 (400 cal)
2/3 head of garlic: $.039 (0 cal)
1 giant onion: $1.11 (100 cal)
1 tbs Italian seasoning: $0.03 (0 cal)
1 tsp red pepper flakes: $0.03 (0 cal)
Salt to taste: less than 1 penny.
Total sauce: $4.13, 850 cal.
Sauce per serving: $0.41, 85 cal.
Total spaghetti: $2.42, 5040 cal.
Spaghetti per serving: $0.24, 504 cal
Total spaghetti with sauce: $6.55, 5890 cal.
Spaghetti with sauce per serving: $0.66, 589 cal.

Baked chicken and rice:
Total (20) chicken thighs: $7.09, 3000 cal.
Chicken thighs per serving (2): $0.71, 300 cal
Total rice (3 1/3 cups) with butter (10 tbs) and peas (2 bags): $0.90 + $0.80 + $2.28 = $3.98, 3700 cal.
Rice (1/3 cup) and butter (1 tbs) and peas, per serving: $0.40, 370 cal

Snacks:
Total fruit: $3.24,700 cal.
Total plain tea: $2.10, 0 cal.

Buttered toast with milk tea:
Total bread (18 slices): $2.18, 1800 cal.
Total butter (9 tbs): $0.84, 900 cal.
Total buttered toast: $3.02, 2700 cal.
piece of buttered toast: $0.17, 150 cal.
Total milk (28 cups) cost: $4.52
Total tea (7 bags) cost: $3.05
Total sugar (1 tbs) cost: less than a penny
Total milk tea cost: $7.57
Per drink: $0.54, 275 cal.

Beef stew:
Chicken fat: 50 cal ($free)
1.5 pounds Beef: 1600 cal ($7.30)
2 Potatoes: 300 cal ($0.67)
2 Carrots: 100 cal ($0.36)
Onion: 100 cal ($1.11)
3 tbs Flour: 75 cal ($0.02)
3 tbs Butter: 300 cal ($0.28)
Homemade Chicken broth: 25 cal ($free)
Total: 2550 cal ($9.74)
Per serving (4 total): 650 cal ($2.44)

Rice pudding:
2/3 cup raw rice: 400 cal ($0.18)
3 cups milk: 390 cal ($0.48)
1/3 cup sugar: 258 cal ($0.07)
1 tsp cinnamon: 0 cal ($0.05)
1/3 cup golden raisins: 150 cal ($0.44)
Total rice pudding: 1200 cal ($1.22)
Per serving (2): 600 cal ($0.61)

Popcorn:
½ cup raw popcorn: 500 cal ($0.11)
3 tbs butter: 300 cal ($0.28)
Total popcorn: 800 cal ($0.39)
Per serving (2): 400 cal ($0.20)

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