Week 1, Days 1 and 2

On Thursday night we had a cookout with friends. Because it wasn't October until Friday, I made lots of food. Food which we ate through lunch today.
For breakfast both days I had a piece of homemade toast which is 3 cents for me (my homemade bread is about $0.50 a loaf and I get about 16+ pieces per loaf) and Paul had 3 pieces of toast per day ($0.09) and a bowl of oatmeal ($0.13) with a tablespoon of brown sugar ($0.02)and 1.5 Tbls of milk($0.02).
We ate leftovers for lunch yesterday and today and I'm simply not counting that against us- not that it was decadent or anything but I did pay for those with last month's budget and I think that I'm only going to figure out the cost of a meal not the cost of how much we ate of a meal, if that makes sense.
Yesterday while Pearl was taking her first nap I made strawberry freezer jam which I can't believe I haven't been doing before because it was so dang cheap but that's for another post.
Paul felt sick last night and so he didn't eat anything for dinner and I decided to have a bag of popcorn ($0.33). So much for always having healthy meals but hey, it's fiber right?

So yesterday looks like this:
Breakfast: $0.24
Lunch: $0
Dinner: $0.33

Day total: $0.57 Yesterday was kind of a weird day and I know that starting tomorrow (Sunday, October 3) things are going to be much more expensive.

Tonight I made pancakes for dinner because Paul had to go to a meeting at church at 8 and we put Pearl to bed around 7 which left little time. Paul didn't mind at all because he loves pancakes and would eat them every day if I let him. I used a less decadent recipe than usual so pancakes work out to this: Flour ($0.06) Milk ($0.25) Vinegar ($0.01) Sugar ($0.03) Baking powder ($0.02) Egg ($0.07) Butter ($0.14) and then Syrup (which we only used a little of but I'm going to count this the same way I do leftovers, I charge it when I make it and not by how much I use) White Sugar ($0.48) Brown Sugar (0.06) and Mapeline ($0.12)

Today's totals:
Breakfast: $0.24
Lunch: $0
Dinner: $1.24

Day Total: $1.48

I'm going to end each week on Saturday and so I'll total our "week" up (keep in mind again that this was 2 partial days of eating on our $30 a week budget).

WEEK GRAND TOTAL: $2.05