This Week's Shopping Trips

 First, the above photo was actually taken by my son when he grabbed my camera and snapped a picture.  I was impressed.  He's a better photographer than I am *laugh*.

This week's shopping trips are combined with next week's too as I covered in a previous post (I wanted the fuel rewards if I went over 100.00 in one shopping trip at Carrs...it netted me 4x the fuel rewards doing that.  The coupon has renewed itself too, so check your Just 4 U coupons to see if you can load it if you want it). 

So anyway, all totaled I went to three stores the last week.  One was Carrs, of course last Friday, where I picked up things like flavored water (for daughter's lunches this week), Gatorade, Cheetos, some chips and other "boy food".  I didn't really get anything "wow" worthy, so I didn't bother to take a picture (that and most of it was shelf stable and was going to be down in the pantry or the laundry room (like the 3.00 things of cat litter I bought) so I REALLY didn't want to try and stack two weeks worth of groceries on our stairs to take a picture).  All totaled I spent 103.00 after coupons and got my fuel rewards.  Part of that was 10.00 my husband and I spent on lunch, which I don't count in the grocery budget, so that left me with about 30.00 for the rest of the two week period.

The other trip is above when we went to Bushes Bunches on Saturday last week in the hopes of getting corn on the cob super cheap (I was willing to go over budget to stock up on it).  I saw the post on them having it Friday night after I had gotten my shopping done, so we ran in about a half an hour after they opened on Saturday to try and get some.  I was right behind the woman who had gotten the very last ears.  I was kind of bummed, but I grabbed two big bags of cole slaw mix (all locally grown).

I then ran to the Franz outlet to see about what I could get for bread cheap.  All of the bread I bought was on the 4/5.00 rack, so I got all of the above bread for 11.66 (the one Rustic Seeds loaf was free.  If you spend five dollars or more there you get a free loaf of bread.  I spent 11.66 because if you buy an odd amount you pay 1.66 instead of 1.25 for the item.  :).  This should be enough bread to last us about a month, so I was happy (and it will even meet some of the goals for feeding therapy like the bread sticks, so yay!).  I like the buy the pre-sliced bread for toast as the kids definitely prefer it and also for quick dinners when I run out of home made bread (which does, occasionally happen).

So all totaled I spent 112.66 on groceries for two weeks, which leaves me about 8.00 or so for milk (luckily milk was part of the shopping trip so I think I will make it...if not I'll be close).

So, how did you do?  Find anything neat the stores this week?