Hello my friends.  And we are back to grocery shopping again.  So soon!  It seems like I spend an inordinate amount of my time shopping for something each week.  For someone who hates shopping, this is not a happy thought.  A thrift store or a yard sale?  I can search for treasures there all day long, but Wal-mart, or Food Lion with the masses?  No thanks.

Many, many moons ago, I used to try to shop once a month.  I haven’t even tried that in quite a few years.  I don’t know how I would fare.  How do you grocery shop?  Each week?  Once a month?  Every few days?  Inquiring minds want to know.

Last week I tried my best to stay out of the stores.  I think I did pretty well.  The kids and I went into the city, and anytime we make the hour and half treck, I always try to hit a store that’s not available in my tiny town.  This week Sharp Shopper won our hard earned money.  I LOVE that store.  Who doesn’t want to find Boom Chicka Pop for $0.79 a 7 ounce bag!?  We bought all kinds of goodies – Oscar Mayer Maple Bacon, 16 ounces for $2.49, Capri Suns for Liv for $1.49, Cheez It’s for Hayden, it was a Costco sized box – I have no idea what the size on that thing was but it was $4.99. (I looked at the box – 3 pounds) The list goes on and on.

Yes, yes, I can hear you.  All I listed was snacky type foods.  Don’t you buy snacky type foods for your people?  We’ll divert with a story time story for a moment:  When Hayden and Liv were really small, about two and four at the time, Granny Joyce and I were sitting on her back porch talking.  Granny Joyce was the lovely woman who lived in front of us when the kids were tiny and that’s what they called her from the time they could talk.  We were talking about Liv’s food allergies and all of the things that we had to constantly keep away from her, when she turned to me and said, “You still let Hayden have those things, though, right?”.  And I can remember that hitting me like a lightning bolt.  Because we didn’t.

I have a niece who cannot stand chocolate.  So we always try to have some things that she will like every time we have an Eatin Meetin.  But that doesn’t keep us from making things with chocolate.  I’m so thankful for Granny Joyce.  She influenced me in ways that she will never understand.  And I know that Hayden was grateful to her for being able to eat M & M’s, peanuts, and Cheez It’s.  Even when his sister couldn’t have them.  So, yes.  I buy all of my people snacky foods when they want them.  Life is short.  Story time over.

All of that to say, here is what we spent on groceries last week:

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                                                       Sharp Shopper  $100.11 on 06.07.19

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Total spent for the last week: $100.11

January $740.71

February $631.00

March $689.00

April $405.44

May $1,047.02  Yikes  

June $157.45

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?  Going with the flow is killing my food budget!

Here are some ways I recoup part of my grocery budget each week:

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