Meat & Cheese Sandwiches

Deli sandwiches were on the menu tonight and these seemed to go fast although I didn't hear a lot of 'ooohing and aahing' like I sometimes do. I bought the bread on "manager's special" from Kroger, which these days I always peruse when I'm in there. Four loaves of about 14" for a grand total of like $2.19. The unfortunate part was I overestimated how much meat and cheese I would need to complete the sandwiches and purchased a package of cheese and a package of meat too much. I also served them with cheez-its and some cheap sandwich cookies from Kroger.

Items I purchased:
4 loaves of bread
3 packages of cheese, 8 oz. each
3 packages of meat, 16 oz. each
1 box of cheez-its
1 package of 40 sandwich cookies

Everything was gone! We also have a few more big eaters attending our youth group (i.e. boys ha!) so I feel like it's getting harder to have enough food on my budget. I did exceed my budget ($10-$15) by about $3 today, but it would have been about $4 cheaper if I hadn't purchased that last package of cheese and meat. I plan on buying a little more bread and making some more sandwiches next week.

Pudding!

Tonight I made chocolate and vanilla instant pudding = yum! This wasn't the healthiest snack, but it was fairly cheap (total cost of about $12) and fairly easy to make. I also bought cool whip, animal crackers, crushed oreos, and gummy bears as toppings. Kids seemed to love this snack!

Items I purchased:
1 gallon milk
1 box of oreos
1 package of animal crackers
1 tub cool whip
2 small packages gummy bears (kids especially loved these!!)
2 6 oz. packages chocolate pudding
1 6 oz. package vanilla pudding