Project Complete! February = Spend $0 (or as close to it as possible)

We made it!
What an experience! I recommend everyone should try it!
It was stressful at times, but a good learning experience.
Also, it helped me be even less wasteful (and I am a pretty frugal and non wasteful person anyway)
We didn't really throw away any food. I was extra conscience of making sure we ate it before it went bad and had to be tossed.

We did not spend $0, but we did very well.
We likely spent $1,000- $1,500 less than we otherwise would have.

In this past week, I just had a $5 target purchase I used a giftcard for, and $10 charge that went on the credit card for milk, bread and bananas

Kevin is doing home improvement projects this week, so he had spending from those from the last 2 days, but didn't have any charges of eating food/drinks out or anything like that.

Spending less than usual made it easy to spot another wrongful credit card charge. We had $620 worth of charges on the credit card we are sure were fraudulent. I think we would have caught that anyway, but we are getting good reminders to always check your statements very carefully.

We did a pretty good job of cleaning food out of the freezers this month. We have a few things we are still going to eat up this week. Otherwise, we get to start fresh, which was needed.
My pantry of boxed foods, canned goods, snacks, etc. Is still pretty full. We could probably go another month (or 2 or 3) of buying only dairy, eggs, bread and meat. I like it well stocked though so I'll think about that. I stock up when foods are on sale, that way I never have to buy foods at full price. It works very well, but some things we don't eat regularly so they have been sitting and need to be used.

We ate out a few times with gift certificates and coupons. We didn't even use all those up.

Again, I encourage everyone to try this. You could be a little more flexible in your food buying than I was and still have it be a success.