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!
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)
Nice job on the 'sauce. Isn't it kinda disappointing though when you spend that much time making it & it disappears so quickly? It is for me anyway.
ReplyDeleteThis week has been good to us too (food-wise) b/c I haven't stepped foot in a store! We did eat out once & I was a little disappointed as I forgot my coupons at home. However, to my pleasant surprise, my punch card was full so we still ended up only paying for 1 lunch (kids were free). It's little things like that, that make my day. :)
Despite the achievements above, our $$ is leaking into our truck. Ready to take it back for the 5th(!) time in 2 weeks. :(
how did you get 5 lbs of potatoes for .99?
ReplyDeleteYes, it is a little disappointing seeing the applesauce disappear so quickly. Bummer on the truck! We went through the same thing a few weeks ago with the van too....but not 5 times in 2 weeks, just 2 times in 1 week.
ReplyDeleteThe 5 lbs of potatoes for .99 were a deal that my local small town grocery store had. I made PW's mashed potatoes yesterday with them. OHMYWORD!!! I could just eat those all day long. =)