A College Student's Grocery List: August Recap

Currently, I'm two weeks into my sophomore year of college, as well as my first two weeks of apartment living. Even as someone who loves home-cooked meals and is averse to eating out, it's definitely a lot tougher than I thought to actually plan and cook each meal -- especially when the weeks are busy and hectic with student organization recruiting and classes. Even with attempts to keep grocery and food spending low, it's important to make time to eat out with friends and catch up with them over a big (overpriced) bowl of noodles. What I've realized is that the memories made hanging out with people over food just cannot be replicated alone in a kitchen.

I wanted to recap my August grocery lists so that I can record my own spending, as well as hopefully be a bit of an example of college student spending. I'm most definitely just starting to learn how to budget for groceries and healthy eating, so I think it'll be fun to look back at these grocery lists in the future and see how far I've come!

August Grocery List (August 16 - 31)

​Unsweetened Vanilla Almond Milk	For overnight oats, matcha lattes, coffee (in attempt to spend less on coffee shops lol)	$3.99
Chobani Plain Nonfat Greek Yogurt, 32 oz	For overnight oats, morning yogurt bowls, snacks (mixing with ground cinnamon)	$5.79
Quaker's Old Fashioned Oats	Quick breakfast, lasts way longer than you'd expect	$3.29
Pure Raw Honey, 12 oz	To sweeten up anything, toasts and lattes, baking	$5.99
Firm Tofu, One block	For stir fries, pairing with kimchi, add to salad for protein	$2.99
Kimchi, 16 oz	For stir fries, adding to rice & salad bowls, kimchi fried rice, kimchi grilled cheese	$8.99
Garden Salad Blend, 12 oz	For salad bowls, sandwiches	$2.19
Eggs, Dozen	Add to salad bowls (boiled), avocado toasts, omelettes, snack	$5.20
Ezekiel Bread	Sprouted grains loaf of bread, for toasts, sandwiches	$6.49
Bulk Apples, Fuji	An apple a day keeps the doctor away :p Apples are such a good grab n' go snack	$9.64
Misc.	Kombucha, energy drinks, eating out	~$40

August 16-31 Total: $91.41