Hello everyone! I hope you had a wonderful week. The past week is a blur for us. We are still in a holding pattern at our house, so everything is limping along as best it can. Denton and I met with his neurosurgeon and they will be scheduling him for surgery in the next week or two. Keep him (and the rest of us) in your prayers, if you would!
Sooooo, trips into the city and general fuzziness of my brain causes me to just buy whatever I happen to see on the shelves at the grocery stores. This is my new excuse! Exhaustion has EVERYTHING to do with all of the nutty buddies, oreo ice cream and orange swirl ice creams that ended up in our cart on Saturday and nothing to do with poor impulse control. I’m sure there have been studies about this phenomenon, right?
But I did happen to buy other good things too. A yummy Boston butt that has already made it’s way into my crockpot and been consumed completely, which you will see later tonight in my What’s for Supper post.
Rosemary, cilantro and mint plants that I’ve already set out on my front porch. I’m counting these in my grocery budget, because…..we are going to eat them. I would count them if I had bought them dried and in a container, so just because they are still alive and on the plant doesn’t mean anything. These are the thoughts that are taking up space in my head. I could try to blame this on lack of sleep and worry too, but that would be a blatant lie. I would definitely be rationalizing all of this even if things were all sunshine and roses. Sigh.
Honeycrisp apples are always a good chunk of our grocery budget each week. We eat a LOT of these apples. I usually spend about $10 to $12 on apples each week. I most definitely need to buy a tree for the yard. How much do you spend on apples? What’s your favorite kind? Gala’s are pretty cheap compared to the honeycrisp, but they break Hayden and Olivia’s mouths out.
I am loving the strawberries and blueberries right now. They are so, so sweet!
How did your grocery shopping go for the week?
Let’s see what the damage was:
FoodLion $35.66 on 07.16.19 | Walmart $163.55 on 07.22.19
Total spent for the last week: $199.21
January $740.71
February $631.00
March $689.00
April $405.44
May $1,047.02 Yikes
June $361.33
July $514.56
How is the grocery shopping going at your house?
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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