Acquired Tastes: January 2012

This is my review of my December food budgeting and goals for January! For more information on this project, please take a look at Emily's Custom Made Blog!

If you remember November was out of control coming in at $719 and so eased up a little on my goal for December, putting it at $550.

For December, I came in at $635.18, not too shabby if I do say so myself! Considering it includes a birthday dinner (at Morton's no less) that I thought maybe I would take out since it technically was kinda a gift... and also a dinner I paid for when my family was in town. They did pay for quite a few of my dinners out though - and there were also a lot of family dinners attended with lots of leftovers!

I somehow did a dinner party in there and also made a double batch of crockpot mac and cheese for a work potluck that everyone RAVED about - which maybe me feel good, even though it was just this recipe tweaked a bit.

I also must mention I was gifted 2 cases of Christmas wine (that I gave a lot of as gifts) and I also had a Christmas party where people brought tons of extra drinks - so I think that helped a lot in my booze spending area.

I think I did better this month because I was eating so much rich food going out and to parties that I ate very little otherwise - and it was mostly vegetables or soups because I was just so full!!

For January, I am really planning on buckling down and eating at home more, although we will see how that goes! I am also trying to keep up the monthly dinner party and hopefully this month I can attend the Kaya Prix Fixe Vegetarian dinner again! I am setting my budget for this month at $500.

Wanna see how everyone else in the project did this week?