Since I seriously suck at remembering to update this every single time I go to the grocery store, I think that I will do monthly recaps and see how that goes.
One thing to note about keeping track this way is that unless you stringently keep an eye on the grocery budget, it will be a shock to see that number at the end of the month. Even if you divide it out week by week and get the breakdown (mine was $164.64 each week in May) I was still stunned to see the total for the month. I have no idea why, because I think I did pretty darn well for the month of May!
Nothing has come in, in the tiny garden we planted this spring. So all the fruits and vegetables are still coming in from the grocery store.
Check out this photo. I took this on one of the three! trips I took to Wal-Mart last month. I was actually taking a photo of my cart when I noticed that my line wasn’t moving at all. The man at the front of the line was paying for his buggy full of soda – that is all he had – with change.
Don’t get me wrong, I think that’s quite industrious. But he had dumped out all of his LOOSE change on the conveyor belt and was making that poor cashier separate it and count it all out for him.
Fifteen minutes later, yes I waited in this line for an additional fifteen minutes because at this point I NEEDED to know how much change this lunatic had brought into the store loose, the cashier finally got through it all. It came to $41.76. I asked. The lunatic is not the man in the orange shirt by the way. Orange shirt man is just waiting to pay for his one item that he had in his hand. The lunatic is waiting in front of his cart out of camera range. Maybe orange shirt man wanted to see what the total was on the change too.
Oh, the joys of grocery shopping.
Anyway, here’s what we spent the month of May at the grocery store!
Wal-Mart $240.77
Kroger $148.17
Aldi $62.61
Food Lion $207.02
Total spent for the month of May $658.57
Total spent for the Year so far: $2,353.12
- Got back this month: Got back for the year:
- ibotta $4.00 $20.70
- Checkout 51 $0.25 $1.40
- You can earn $5.00 by using my link for Checkout 51!
- Receipt Hog 35 Coins 393 Coins
- Walmart Savings Catcher
$0.00 $0.00
- Fetch 201 points 7,652 points
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Are you keeping up with your grocery spending this year? Are you as appalled as I am at how much groceries are costing you?!? Inquiring minds need to know!
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