$30 LOW BUDGET GROCERY HAUL: HOW TO SHELF COOK: WEEKLY MEAL PLAN ON A BUDGET

Hi guys, I'm Abbi, welcome back to my channel in today's video. I'll take them with me. Today I am a single mother all day long, but I will bring them with me. This is the weekend before payday. The weekend I don't have any money so I'm going to show you how I

shelf

cook

the last week of every month and for me this is the most fun week it's so much fun it's where I look through my freezer at my refrigerator and my pantry and I try to prepare as many

meal

s as possible and make what we have go as far as possible without having to spend a lot at the

grocery

store.

Well the first thing I do is look everywhere I have food, freezer, pantry and refrigerator, and then I tried to prepare

meal

s in my head look for things on Pinterest there is a website that I can delete the name I haven't used it for a while but basically you can type in a bunch of ingredients random things and I will come up with recipes with those ingredients so you have meals to

cook

, it's great. I learned it from Jordan's page here on YouTube anyway, this is what I came up with for the week. I bought this at Dollar General and cleared it once for about 50 cents, but I like it because I can play with my breakfast, lunch, and dinner options for the week and I already have most of this on hand so it won't cost me as much as I thought.

Well, for breakfast this week I'm

plan

ning to make banana. muffins bagels and cream cheese I have to buy bagels chocolate muffins cereal in the pantry and cookies so this is something I already had on hand I'm going to make Shakeology banana muffins for me and my husband these for the kids I also have these in By On the other hand, we already have tons of cereal in the pantry, okay, so for lunches this week I'm going to make homemade peanut butter and jelly circles, which I'll show you. I took string cheese out of the freezer to thaw and had it for snacks.

I'm going to buy apples, oranges and bananas at the store. I have things to make chicken salad sandwiches with cream cheese sauce. I needed to buy bread and then I love eating roasted sweet potatoes. Well, and for dinner one night we're going to make eggs and bacon. and homemade hash browns. I also have things for pancakes. I have a small frozen chicken and rice with frozen green beans. I have frozen salmon and I like sandwiches with cream cheese, arugula and bagels. Tonight we're having friends over for Bible study, so I'll have some French onion casserole that I frozen.

I'll probably get two friends who make Little Caesars pizzas and they'll bring me dessert. I have a ton of frozen corn and a ton of frozen bread, so I don't have to do much that night. For Friday night I have a bag of stir-fry vegetables, I have tons of sausage meat, I'm going to make homemade meatballs with eggs and breadcrumbs, and I have tons of teriyaki sauce, so we'll try to make a Chinese stir-fry. fry, but basically that's it, like I already have all the meals until Friday and then I even have frozen meals for Saturday that I can have on Saturday.

I'm probably going to wake up and go to Aldi right away when they open because I know my house is going to be a little bare, okay guys, hmmm, I had to get away from my kids being loud, but now that I have my week

plan

ned, my goal to buy groceries it's like thirty dollars this week, which is convenient because Walmart picks up their minimum is thirty dollars, it's really Why I choose the thirty dollars, so I'll just stock up on bread and milk, just enough to get me through the week because I have many things that I was able to plan with my cook.

Oh, I have your babies, yeah, so how I'm shopping at Walmart this week is through an app called drop. Thanks Drock for working with me on this part of the video, but drop is an app that I've had for probably over a year. I saw it like on Instagram, but it's the easiest way to buy and recover points to use as gift cards. This is what the app looks like. I've had this for a while. I have used a gift card before, but currently have. 15,000 points, so this is basically an app that you can use to shop all your favorite brands, but you get points and then you can use them for gift cards, so you see right there what I'm going to use today at Walmart, etc.

By clicking on Walmart and shopping through this app, I'll get 3,000 points, which is three dollars, so you have to shop through the app, it'll take me to Walmart and now I can load up on all my groceries for the week. So these are all the items that I will receive, not for me this week. 33 dollars, 71 cents, this is all I'm going to get and today they have one between one and two. I'm sorry, I don't want you to see where I am. I'm picking up okay so I'm done and I'm going to allow a substitute shirt and I'll place the order and this goes through my card which is also linked in my delivery but the really nice thing about this app is that it doesn't take a lot of time like scan receipts, everything is fine here and you have to link your card for it to work so my debit card is linked and I can see my previous purchases at Charbagh Starbucks, my previous purchases.

At Target Starbucks they give me points and I don't have to do anything. I just swipe my card with these and collect points. The really cool thing is that you can use the store page which you should always check here before buying something. Say I'm going shopping and I'm going to Ma Reese's and every dollar you spend you get 30 points, so instead of just shopping on their website you just click add this to your app and shop at through the link. like I did with Walmart and you get points this way and it's the easiest way to earn points, you'll already be shopping anyway and those points are added to your account, so I've partnered with Drop for this part of the video.

Give away a variety of reward points to my viewers for downloading the app today with the link and code below. Everyone will receive bonus points by using my link and code below, but an additional 50 people will receive rewards from five to twenty-five dollars. To use in the drop, all you have to do is download the app below with the link and referral code that I will put here. You have to link your card, that's the only way the app will work and then you're good to go. of this information I'm going to go Lake below, but I really hope you like this app, it's a great way to earn money and points on things you were going to buy anyway, let me show you how to make these sandwiches, so I usually buy a whole loaf of bread and do this, then put them in the sentence and put them in the refrigerator and then the kids will grab them when they're hungry right there.

I mean the right tricks, like the meat loaf, the lever bread you want now, the trick is not to put too much. in the middle or it's going to like, it's not going to work, it's going to explode like it's going to come out the side and push and it cuts it off, now you tear off the crust and as you can see, I put a lot on this one, so it's kind. to leave, but if you don't, it appears that the crust doubles. You can buy it at the store and it is much cheaper and much healthier.

If you can make them healthier, you can choose your own peanut butter and jelly. and bread so I put these and ziplocs I put them in the refrigerator my kids take them and eat them or I put them in the freezer and put them away you can take them on road trips in the car picnics like the easiest thing ever Oh and' everyone helping, wait Simon this is dirty, take all that out of the dryer and put it on the couch, this is what the breakfast casserole looks like, if you're curious go watch my video from last week, it's delicious, It's okay, so I wanted to leave you. "We all know about a really good deal on a rug.

It's in my daughter's room. It's six by nine and you'll never believe how cheap this rug was on Amazon. It's thin now, so eventually I need to get a pad for rug. but a six by nine and they have other shades 60 bucks a 6x9 rug is a good deal I'll link it below, but it's too big for this room, but I have a large one in case it's another girl for. so we can move the girls in my son's room because his room is very big and this big rug will work but I'm just going to let them know where we are going and not to do the shopping okay try again where are we?

I'm going to the

grocery

store I'm going to pick up at Walmart Okay we're back and this was my little

haul

of the week I'm really bummed I thought these would be like the little ones but okay. waffles bread my husband loves this coffee it's like organic and it's only like four dollars for this so Uncle Chris's sweet potatoes cream cheese milk bananas cream and bagel I'm going to put this on my kids are going to take naps I hope I can work maybe see a movie probably isn't what we'll see so let's go on a hike without that so true that's been begging me to go on a hike the animals we survived and no accidents it was fun yeah they did it really well.

The girl wanted me Farrah wanted me to carry her. her a lot but we survived anyway we are going to go home for dinner call today thank you all so much for watching I hope you enjoyed our little vlog here stay tuned for next week's video because it will be my $5 dinners video every first week of the month $5 dinners. Be sure to check it out. Goodbye everybody.