Hello again! It’s not Monday, but for the purposes of my mind, we are going to pretend it is. Okay? Because to my mind, I need to update this on Monday’s so that I can keep track of what’s going on in my life. On this particular Monday we were traveling home from my family because of Easter. Does any of that make sense to anyone but me? Let’s just pretend it’s still Monday in the grocery shopping world, shall we?
Since it was a short week in my world last week because we were traveling, we didn’t spend as much as we normally would have. Hopefully that won’t show up next week to bite me in the arse.
I always, ALWAYS, quickly scan the clearance section of the meat department when I’m in my grocery stores. Last week I ended up buying a giant boston butt that I’m going to have Denton smoke at some point. I also grabbed some split chicken breasts that I’ll turn into chicken and dumplings or I’ll let Denton have those for his smoker too. We shall see.
The loveliness about buying ahead is, that I saved almost $9.00 by taking these sale items home and shoving them into my giant cold friend in the garage. Now they will wait for me to use them in a delicious recipe when I am ready and that almost $9.00 can go towards ice cream cones at the beach in a few weeks. Yay!
BTW: I did spend money at the grocery store while we were with my family this week. I never count that in with my grocery budget for the same reason I never count vacation food in our grocery budget when we are on vacation. That food isn’t going into my pantry. Does that make sense? Good.
Here is what we spent last week:
Wal-Mart $20.96 | Food Lion $29.10 | Food Lion $27.79
Total spent for this week $77.85
January $740.71
February $397.21
March $ ?
April $233.87 so far…..
And that’s it in the grocery haul department for our house. Are you keeping up with your grocery spending this year? Are you staying on track or do you just go with the flow?
Here are some ways I recoup part of my grocery budget each week:
ibotta | Checkout 51 | Receipt Hog | Walmart Savings Catcher
| Fetch (referral code – QF4TJ)
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