I'm guessing you make other little trips?
You don't seem to have any.vegetables, or anything for breakfast.
True. We usually get vegetables at Sprouts, so that's a different errand, but if I wanted, I could have picked up a couple heads of lettuce for ~$2, and that would have been salads for the week.
Breakfasts are generally oats+milk+brown sugar, so a bulk buy of oatmeal when it's on sale keeps that cost low. When milk creeps over $2/gallon (or when the weather gets cold enough that I don't want a cold breakfast), I just cook the oats w/boiling water and have hot oatmeal.
what do you do with the olives and the flour?
Olives are a super-yummy garnish/topping for stuff like baked potatoes or burritos/tacos. The flour, I actually used today to make bread for dinner-- to go with our lentil stew.
How do you make 7 dinners out of this? I'm not trying to be snarky--sincerely curious.
I don't intend to make seven dinners using only these ingredients. But the quantity of food is enough for more than a week of dinners. We have veggies and other staples already in the pantry that allow me to make a variety of meals instead of the same thing every day.
I packaged the ground beef into 10 dinner-size portions for the freezer. They'll be used in rotation with the other meat (chicken, sausage, pork) from the freezer to eventually be ten dinner meals. If I needed to use this single shopping trip to make seven dinners, I'd have swapped the marshmallows for some veggies, and then it'd be some variation of meat&potatoes or meat&bread.