2013 Challenge

This year my wife and I thought: why not make our blog more fun by attempting a challenge and sharing the experience with our readers.

After some thought, we chose to do a budgeting challenge. Why not try to eat well on a tight budget.

Here are the objectives and rules:

Objective:

• Spend only $160/month (approximately $40/week) on groceries.
• Eat out only twice in one month ($20 each time) .
• If we choose not to eat out we can put this money towards our groceries or save it for the following month. 

Rules:

• Post our grocery expense each month.
• Post our meals for each month.
• Eat healthy. The purpose of this challenge is to prove that you can eat well on a limited budget.
• Post our successes and failures. This is an exercise in budgeting. You can learn just as much from your truimphs as you can from your mistakes.
• Have fun doing it!

When we started this challenge we had a few things in our pantry, but we figured that when one starts a "budget diet" there will be a few essentials to begin with.

Wish us Luck! We hope you join us with this challenge. Feel free to post any comments.