Organic Costco Meal Plan: What’s Left

When I started the Organic Costco Meal Plan challenge, I set out to shop only at Costco, to buy everything I could either organically or a whole food, and to limit my spending to only $475.

This is what the initial shopping trip looked like:

Click here to see the list of everything I bought.

After 4 weeks, this is what I have left:

• Organic Evaporated Sugar Cane – at our consumption rate, we still have 3 -4 months worth left
• Organic Lemon Juice – about 1/4 bottle left
• Organic Whole Wheat Pasta – (3) 16oz bags
• Organic Butter – out of 2 pounds, I have 1/2 stick left.
• Green Tea – 20 bags
• Corn Tortillas – 10 left
• Pure Maple Syrup – Maybe 1/4 of a bottle left? Could be less.
• Oats – About 5 cups left
• Popcorn – 2/3 bottle left
• Organic Brown Rice – I guesstimate we used 1/4 of the bag and will have plenty of brown rice for the next few months
• Chocolate Chips – 1/4 bag left
• Craisins  – 1/4 bag left
• Organic Olive Oil – 1 full bottle (pictured) and left out of the picture is another 1/2 bottle – we’ll have enough for a few months
• Organic Salsa – 1/2 bottle left
• Pinto Beans – Out of 10 pounds, I have 6 pounds left and another 3 cups of cooked beans still in the freezer.

Since I know for certain I won’t have to be beans, olive oil, brown rice, or sugar – the initial cost of those items was $52.76!!!! That is a lot of money I can now roll over and spend on other items for the month!

**UPDATE: I forget that I still have 10 heads of garlic and 3 yellow onions (they all still look free of deterioration) that I can use still! The cost of the garlic was $3.99!**