Hello again! How are you doing in the grocery budget department? Hayden and I went gallivanting last week and stopped into one of my favorite grocery stores: Sharp Shopper. I LOVE this store. It’s a discount grocery store, and you can get amazing prices on things. Examples: We bought two 12 count boxes of La Croix Berry for $1.99 each. Two bags of Boom Chica Pop for $0.79 each, Poptarts – my family will only eat the plain ones, toasted with butter on them – for $0.99 a box, Good Thins $0.99 a box, Cracker Barrel mac and cheese for $1.49 a box, Cheez It Snack Mix and TownHouse Flip side crackers for $1.49 a box, Avocado Oil $4.53 and Blackstrap Molasses $2.99 for 32 ounces. Again: I LOVE this store.
I also love to buy my spices there. The prices can’t be beat, and everything is still in date for those of you who will ask – I know you are there.
I also bought Oscar Mayer maple bacon for $2.49 for 16 ounces. I wish that I had picked up more of those to stick in my giant freezer, but we were tired and I just didn’t think about it. Do you freeze bacon? I freeze just about anything and nothing has been weird yet. Did you know that you can freeze potato chips? I’ve never had the opportunity to try it, because when I bring them home we eat them, but it can be done.
Liva is always asking me why I don’t run into the store to pick up ???? insert whatever it is someone has asked for. My Food Lion total below is why. I have everyone in my house write things on our giant whiteboard on my kitchen wall during the week and when I do a grocery run I pick up whatever is on the list. Even if I specifically go in with a list, I always find great deals, so I try to keep myself out of the stores as much as possible. Denton and I went in to buy Ribeyes for my Mother’s Day supper. There was NO way anyone in my family wanted to wade into the madness of eating out that day. We came out with ice cream, ginger ale and coke for the week. Along with milk and a few other items. Still, at $47.09 it was cheaper than eating out, dealing with the crazies, waiting on a table and maybe having terrible food. No thanks, my steak was amazing and I didn’t have to cook it. And we have yummy treats that will last well beyond this weekend.
All of that to say, here is what we spent on groceries last week:
Aldi $68.38 on 05.10.19 | Sharp Shopper $85.61 on 05.10.19 | Food Lion $47.09 on 05.12.19
Total spent for this week $201.08
January $740.71
February $631.00
March $689.00
April $405.44
May $329.51
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
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