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So one of my August goals was to spend $80 or less at Sam’s Club.  We don’t go to Sam’s Club all too often.  In fact, I don’t think we’ve been there for about 2-3 months.  Granted, I’m cooking at home a lot more now, so I go through more meat and stuff (which is mainly what we buy at Sam’s).  Anyway.

I went over my budget by $3.82.  I could’ve easily come under, but I was running low on diced tomatoes ($5.32 for 8 cans - $.66 per can) and tomato sauce ($5.48 for 12 cans - $.46 per can), so we got a case of each of those.  And they had a 2pk of Fiber One cereal for $4.60 ($2.30 per box!), and a huge pack of tortillas for $3.08 (which is awesome because I normally pay $2 for a pack of 12 and I think there about 30 in this pack).  So overall we spent $83.82, but I’m happy with what we got!

Just over $65 of that total was spent on meat.  We bought nearly 32 pounds of meat for that price! I came home and packed everything into separate freezer bags for meal-sized amounts and it filled half our freezer!  Here’s how it broke down:

  • Hamburger: 9.45lb - 8 meals worth ($2.53 per meal)
  • Round Eye Roast: 3.69lb - 2 meals worth ($4.23 per meal)
  • Country Style Ribs: 8.7lb - 3 meals worth ($4.58 per meal)
  • Boneless pork chops: 4.61lb - 4 meals worth ($2.84 per meal)
  • Boneless/Skinless Chicken breasts: 5.34lb - 3 meals worth (at least, probably more, but I broke it into 3 bags because there were 7 breasts) ($3.86 per meal)

That’s at least 20 meals, people!  And considering there are usually leftovers, we have leftover night once or twice a week.  I’m thinking this meat will last us at least a month and a half, if not more.  Probably closer to 2 months, but we’ll see.  This will drastically cut costs for when we’re grocery shopping each week since I really shouldn’t have to buy meat at all for the next month or more!  That’s exciting to me.  I have a husband who would eat meat for breakfast and dessert if he could.  He loves it that much.  So even though I try to cook a meal or two each week w/o meat (to save on money), it’s a main center of a lot of our meals.