Grocery Shopping Trip: 02.17.19

Hello again!  Liv and I went out on Sunday afternoon and did this week’s grocery haul.  We waited until late afternoon which helped tremendously with time and people rage.  Is that a thing for you too?  I hate being out with all of the crazies, trying to get what we need for the week and people are standing about having family reunions and get together’s in the aisles.  It makes me want to hurt people.  GO HOME.  Sit on your porch and gab.  Or your living room.  Anywhere that’s not a grocery store aisle.  Please.

When we got home, I completely forgot my promise that I would take photos of all the food for you.  One time does not make a habit, does it?  Hopefully I’ll remember next week.

We ended up having to make two grocery store stops.  Another thing that seriously gets me bent from shopping on a Sunday, is the supply available.  Wal-Mart is especially bad in our town.  There was not ONE single bag of Great Value plain potato chips in the entire store.  Not the red kind, or the yellow kind or the blue kind.

Since we needed to run into Food Lion anyway to keep up with Denton’s need for Coke Zero and they were on sale there, (I am completely content with Diet Dr. Pepper at the moment) I just switched chips to my Food Lion list.  Don’t you make separate, detailed list’s for each grocery store too?  I know, I’m a weirdo.

While I have you held captive with my ranting for the day, let’s talk about store stocker’s, shall we?  My brother worked for a grocery chain for years in his previous work life and he started out as a night stocker in high school.  A NIGHT stocker.  When did stores stop doing this?  I know, I know, I just got through whining about my Wal-Mart not having chips out on the shelf for me to purchase, but for all that’s good and holy this is only adding to the chaos.  You can walk into any grocery store in my surrounding area at any time of day and there are workers with giant pallets on those pull along things blocking aisles all throughout the stores.  Why aren’t they doing this at night, when most people are home asleep, instead of the prime shopping time for little old ladies who are trying to navigate this mine field?

Here’s a list of all the things Tracie has complained about today:

  1. People
  2. Store supplies
  3. Store stockers
  4. I’m sure I’m missing something……

Okay, I’ll hush now.  Onto what we spent this week, so far……

Wal-Mart:

One of the perils of Liv shopping with me is additional items in the basket that are not food related.  I’ll gladly buy them though, just to be able to spend a couple of hours, uninterrupted with her.

Food Lion:

What did you buy at the grocery store this week?  Did they have everything you needed?  Inquiring minds need to know!


Wal-Mart $72.55

Kroger $0.00

Aldi $0.00

Food Lion  $42.23

Dollar Tree $0.00


Total spent for this week $114.78

January $740.71

February $397.21

Total spent for the Year so far:  $1,137.92

  • Got back this summer:                            Got back for the year:
  • ibotta  $0.10                                               $5.75
  • Checkout 51 $                                             $
  • Receipt Hog           Coins                           Coins
  • Walmart Savings Catcher $0.00         $0.00
  • Fetch             points                                   points
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Grocery Shopping Trip: 02.15.19

Hello again!  Do you have a Kroger?  We have one in the town next to ours.  Last week was a GIANT fail with their digital coupon sales.  I went on the third day of their four day sale and they didn’t have any of the items that they had listed, so this week I went first thing in the morning on the first day of the sales.  People, if your store runs out of things quickly and you want Oreo’s you better hit your Kroger today.  Mine didn’t have very many and I was there at 9:00 AM.

The Oreo’s are $1.49 and you can buy five, so I need to hide these so that Liv and I won’t eat them all this weekend.  The Jimmy Dean sausage is $1.99 and you can also buy five of those, but I knew we didn’t need them.

We also bought Cheetos for $1.77 and Kroger cheese crackers $1.69, mushrooms for $1.49 each, salad mix for $1.29, and a roast for the freezer for $11.89 – which I thought was still too high – but it had been $25.78!

Potatoes for $4.49 because we always need potatoes and Sara Lee whole wheat bread because Denton ate this kind at my brother’s house this weekend and declared that this is all he will eat now.

How do you like that price on those roses?  $4.99 for the day after Valentine’s Day.  Yesterday, they were $29.99.  Happy Fake Holiday!

I’m glad to have that over with.  They are calling for snow in the morning here in Virginia.  Is it Spring where you are yet?  I’m ready to plant something!


Wal-Mart $0.00

Kroger $58.11

Aldi $0.00

Food Lion  $0.00

Dollar Tree $0.00


Total spent for this week $148.58

January $740.71

February $282.43

Total spent for the Year so far:  $1,023.14

  • Got back this summer:                            Got back for the year:
  • ibotta  $                                                       $
  • Checkout 51 $                                            $
  • Receipt Hog           Coins                          Coins
  • Walmart Savings Catcher $0.00         $0.00
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Grocery Shopping Trip: 02.11.19

Hello!  As you will see, I abandoned all hope last year after the summer and keeping up with the grocery budget.  Which also carried over into the new year.  And halfway through February, apparently.

On Monday when I got home from grocery shopping, I decided, what the heck.  Instead of just flinging things into the kitchen as usual, I dropped it all onto the dining room table and quickly took pictures of everything I bought.  So, we shall see if this trend will continue.  I hope I don’t crash and burn with this system of keeping myself accountable like all of the others I’ve tried, but we shall see.

Because here’s the thing.  If I don’t tell you guys about my grocery budget, I just go blithely about my day, week, month, and year without looking at the big picture.  Which is BAD.  As you will see in January’s total below.  Yes, I see the receipts each time I shop, but that’s just a weekly number that quickly adds up at the end of the month into a monster.  Sooooo.

Without further ado, here’s what we bought this week – so far…..

We are trying valiantly, to find food that Oreo will actually eat.  This one is a big fat failure too.  I’ll write up an entire post about Oreo for you so you won’t be lost….

We are deep into winter and the tomatoes make me want to cry.  But, BUT!  I had the most amazing Tommy toes, or cherry tomatoes to everyone who didn’t grow up in my family, a few days ago and when I asked, they told me they bought them at our local Food Lion.  So when I was shopping Monday, I literally sniffed every package of  Tommy toes they had until I found one that SMELLED like a tomato.  And they are divine.  I can’t wait to get my tomato plants into the ground!

I always buy at least two or three pounds of Honey Crisp apples every week for Hayden alone.  This time they also had an Ambrosia apple for $0.99 a pound.  Have you ever tried these?  I bought one to see if it goes over well at our house.  For some reason, he has a reaction to Gala apples every single time he tries to eat one.  But, we all love Honey Crisp apples.

Do you have a favorite place to buy your hamburger meat?  We have tried everywhere, including the local butcher and Food Lion has the best ground beef – hands down.  Don’t ask me how, but it tastes so much better.

“Cookies” for the 15 year old puppy.  These, he absolutely loves.

I have bought two bottles of Lysol and can NOT find either of them.  Do you know how much Lysol costs?!?  $5.77!!  They didn’t have any of the great value brand.  Sometimes you need this stuff.  Maybe like when someone cuts up the pineapple that’s been in the fridge for two weeks and leaves the peels in the garbage can overnight.  Even if you scrub, and scrub, that smell will not go away.  Hence the Lysol.

Anywho, the totals are below.  This week turned out better than I expected.  Some weeks are like this, and then other weeks my budget goes out the window.  You know, because I’m not paying attention to those pesky numbers….


Wal-Mart $53.54

Aldi $0.00

Food Lion  $36.93

Dollar Tree $0.00


Total spent for this week $90.47

January $740.71

February $224.32

Total spent for the Year so far:  $965.03

  • Got back this summer:                            Got back for the year:
  • ibotta  $                                                       $
  • Checkout 51 $                                            $
  • Receipt Hog           Coins                          Coins
  • Walmart Savings Catcher $0.00         $0.00
  • Fetch             points                                    points
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