This week, Andrew and I set up a new challenge for ourselves. See, we tend to buy in bulk and when things are on sale. Most of the time, it works great. But right now, we have a pantry and fridge full of food and yet we still buy a bunch of groceries each week. Something isn’t adding up there. We need to start paring down the pantry.

So as part of some cost-cutting and decluttering we are doing around here, we decided to cut down on our groceries and eat what we already have. We set our weekly grocery spending limit at $25. That is for any food or beverages we are going to eat this week. Here is how we set up the first week.