Hello my friends! I feel like we are *slightly* getting back to normal at our house. We are not normal and our routines are far from what they usually are but we are getting there. Denton is healing and doing so great. Thank you all for your prayers. I need to sit down and write it all out, but I just can’t do it yet. So let’s talk about something that’s easy to clarify – like the money I spent on groceries for the past two weeks!
I had to pull all of my receipts to be able to tell when and why I went to the grocery store. One of the trips was because I wanted a roast and I didn’t have any more stored in my giant garage freezer. I hate it when that happens. While I was in Food Lion to pick up a chuck roast, I also grabbed some yellow tomatoes. They were so, so good. I think I’ve only had maybe five tomatoes on the two plants that I grabbed from the clearance rack at Walmart in the middle of July, so here’s to hoping that everyone is well next spring so that we can have fresh veggies right outside in the summer.
Also, milk. We are still going through gallons and gallons of the stuff.
I didn’t get any other photos of everything else that I bought. Do you know how awkward it is to take a picture of your food with people staring at you? Well, it’s pretty awkward. I need to take the photos when I get home, but when I got home I still had stuff on my dining room table from mine and Liv’s trip into the city from three weeks ago. Yes, we are living real life right here.
Denton keeps telling me that my table is going to collapse. I respond with – dining room tables are designed to hold massive amounts of food. He says not in the way you are using it. I think it’s just fine. We will see who is right. 🙂
I looked back over my notebook that I keep in my purse to see what I actually bought too. BTW, how do you keep your grocery shopping lists? Just a scrap piece of paper, or a printable running list of things you by often? I’ve done both, but for the past year I’ve used one of the kids 5 X 7 notebooks that they had used two pages out of and put into the go away pile. I am loving this method. It stays in my purse, it’s small enough that I don’t mind that it lives in my purse and I always have access to it.
When I make out my normal weekly grocery list, I just transfer what everyone has written on my big whiteboard during the week to my little notebook. It keeps me straight, which is always a big plus in my world. I use the right side of the notebook for my list and the left for a possible running weekly menu.
The only thing out of my normal weekly shopping in the past two weeks was a request from Hayden. He wanted bologna of all things. To my knowledge he has NEVER eaten a piece of bologna in his life, but that’s what he made for lunch one day last week and now he wants more.
So that’s what’s going on in my little part of the world right now, let’s see what the food totals are up to this time:
Walmart $89.90 on 08.09.19 | Food Lion $19.49 on 08.10.19 | Walmart $82.91 on 08.15.19 | Walmart $8.80 on 08.17.19 | Food Lion $42.70 on 08.17.19
Total spent for the last two weeks: $243.80
January $740.71
February $631.00
March $689.00
April $405.44
May $1,047.02 Yikes
June $361.33
July $704.96
August $436.03
How is the grocery shopping going at your house?
Here are some ways I recoup part of my grocery budget each week:
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