Hello my friends. How was your week? Before we get to the grocery shopping hauls, in my normal fashion I want to discuss the weather, because it consumes my mind 24/7 while I wait – impatiently – for fall. It also affects everything we do. Right? It does at my house.
We have had a picture perfect week of summer. You know my feelings on the subject of summer, but this past week was glorious if I do say so myself. We had lows in the 50’s and highs in the 70’s and very low 80’s and I enjoyed it. Basically if summer came without humidity I would be a very happy girl. It was lovely. Even without any glorious rain.
Now onto the food. On Monday I made an emergency stop at Walmart for Coca-Cola and Dr. Pepper because we were running dangerously low. By Wednesday, I needed to run into Food Lion because they were running a special on their 80/20 ground beef for $2.99 a pound. I’ve said it before, but we can’t find a better tasting alternative for ground beef other than our Food Lion. It’s delicious. Hard to believe, isn’t it? And milk. We are going through milk faster than ever right now. Denton and Olivia both are craving it.
Friday Hayden, Liv and I made another trip to Walmart with the main intention of Hayden ordering his new glasses. He hadn’t ordered them from our Walmart in the past few years and we discovered after waiting for the vision worker people to come back from lunch that our vision insurance isn’t accepted by Walmart any longer. Well that was a kick in the teeth after he spent an agonizing hour picking out the new frames. Now we are back to square one. Which seriously sucks.
While we were there we dropped another 78 bucks on random pantry staples that should last at least a couple of months for those things. Things like sliced American cheese, canned soup and ramen for lunches and mac and cheese. I buy these things in bulk stick them on a shelf, or in the refrigerator drawer, and call it good until I need to stock up the next time.
What kind of stuff do you buy in bulk and how did your grocery shopping go for the week?
Let’s see what the damage was:
Walmart $14.66 on 07.22.19 | Food Lion $24.32 on 07.24.19 | Walmart $77.99 on 07.26.19
Total spent for the last week: $116.97
January $740.71
February $631.00
March $689.00
April $405.44
May $1,047.02 Yikes
June $361.33
July $631.53
How is the grocery shopping going at your house?
Here are some ways I recoup part of my grocery budget each week:
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