Shopping week of 10/9

So far I'm liking this week. =)
We are still using stockpiled items...I think most of these things were bought in August or Sept (which looking back at the grocery bill for those months was a weee bit higher than budgeted, but it's paying off now!)

"Sort of local" grocery store: I found a gift card that I was pretty sure was both used up and had expired, but it still had $8 on it and wasn't expired! I used $3 of it up. That was my first exciting thing this week, the other was I had bought a bedspread quilt at Target about a week before, and noticed it was on sale this week, and they credited the difference back...guess it does pay to "browse" the store sometimes. Oh and by the way, these were exciting things as far as money/food/budgeting goes...I do have a life and there were other fun exciting things this week like 2 field trips with the kids...back to back. Lots of fun on those buses when it's warm and 50+ noisy kids! (and we found out what it sounds like to squeal in a cave too)

KT: $9.47 on food

Local grocery store: spent $7.86 on food, and saved $14.88!!! I got carrots .99/1 lb (cut, washed, baby carrots), 5 lbs of potatoes for .99 (which by the way I forgot I still have about 7 lbs of potatoes at home...so I guess we'll be having every possible way to fix potatoes for the next 2 weeks), 5 items of breakfast sausage and pork sausage rolls for $5, and sour cream for .99 (12 oz tho).

Total for food this week approx $17 so far....the weekend is still yet ahead and could easily be blown. But, let's think positive thoughts!

I have not even stepped a pinky toe into Target this week. I'm having withdrawals...wonder if I picked up vitamins for that yet?! haha. Other than my 2 local grocery store trips and KT, I haven't done any other shopping...at this point in the week, I'll probably look through the lists on PYD and see if there's anything we NEED to get that won't be a good deal next week still.

Happy shopping/budgeting to the rest of you!

Oh...I did forget something...we went to the apple orchard and spent $25 on apples. We made a huge (quadruple) batch of applesauce that's already gone and froze about 4 large bags of apples for future pies/pannekoeken's (a breakfast meal we make for supper sometimes. Still...just $42 spent on food (and some of it is stockpiled now)

Shopping week of 10/2

For this week...

It's probably a little late for anyone to get any of the same good deals, but maybe just to help others keep motivated I'll post it anyway.

KT: $13 on food/saved $1

Aldi's: $32.48 for 22 items.

Target:
Wet wipes, (2 different purchases so I could legally use 2 of the same TQ's) $4.99 each and used 2 online TQ's for $1 off a $3+ Up and Up item, so $7.98 for 2 wipes (the larger package of 3 packages) .

Food total for both purchases was $8 (just bought bread, vitamins (w/ 2 Q's) bagels (w/TQ), gum (1 free after Q), Tazo tea (.79 after 2 Q's)

Total spent for Target: $16, Total saved $10

$53 total for food this week. This doesn't include lunch $ for the kids...they take hot lunch 1/2 the time. Not too shabby...we were cleaning out cupboards again this week.

Shopping week of 9/25

Hmm....this is a problem when you don't update very often...I have to pull out my receipts to see how I did way back then (3 weeks ago?!)
The week of 9/25, we spent a total of $30 on food, and $20 of that was eating out. My notes say that we bought food at Target and Kwik Trip, so that was only $10 spent on milk, bread and fruit that week. Everything else we ate was stockpile stuff we already had. Oh, and my mom was here for 3 evenings that week and she was practicing wedding reception soups on us. That would have helped the budget and our tummies a little! Tiffany-both soups were EXCELLENT!!!