Stats So Far

Today marks the halfway point in this challenge for us.

We have spent $93.51 purchasing food from the grocery store, or our own pantry.  We started with $256.80, so we feel good about making the second half of the challenge on the remaining balance of $163.29.

It is important to note that we have not eaten everything we have purchased.  We still have cereal from the initial grocery store trip and even have two apples from that same trip.  We bought a whole box of saltines along the way and have eaten less than one sleeve.

As we have valued each meal along the way through our evening meal tonight we have eaten $82.65 worth of the food we've bought.

The average allotment of $4.50 or $4.20 each day* for these 15 days is $130.80.  We are under that on both purchases and eating.

We have a list of what we would have received at a local food bank as a SNAP family.  (We will publish the list in a later post.) We were keeping that in mind if we ran out of money before the 30 days.  We would purchase those items ourselves but charge $0 for them since they would be free to a SNAP family.  It does not look like that will be necessary.

All in all we've done well and are well fed.  We are looking forward to the second half of this challenge with perhaps even an eating out splurge.

*The national average through October 31 was $4.50 per person per day.  Beginning November 1, the average dropped to $4.20 per person per day.