After a few weeks of heavy shopping I took this week off. It was a rough week at our house with a broken dishwasher (I’m pretty sure I would rather hand wash laundry than wash dishes) and a sick kiddo. With the lack of a dishwasher my cooking habits changed drastically. We also utilized some […]
This was meat week at our house. We picked up our Zaycon foods chicken order and put up all 40 lbs of chicken (pictured above). Then I went to Publix last night and grabbed salmon, hamburger, veggies and vitatop muffins. You didn’t expect me to not grab those muffins did ya?? Zaycon Foods order $67.60 […]
With so many coupons expiring last weekend, I had a fun New Years Eve. I am normally not a procrastinator, but I really pushed it this year. I had a number of free coupons from calling manufacturers or from product samples that came, and they ALL expired on 12/31. So I ran to Food Lion, […]
I meant to pull the final numbers for 2011 together for you, but this week has flown by and I forgot. I’ll get them together and share next week. I do know that balancing our budget for the year we are under budget on groceries and personal care expenses!! That was so fun to learn […]
I went out tonight and had a night to myself in Publix. It may seem backwards, but I think I spend more money when my kids aren’t with me in the store. I tend to mosey around the store and enjoy my time, which means more things I put into the buggy. I did pretty […]
This week my shopping budget was taken over by life. It happens to all of us. Thursday morning I was awakened by a phone call (never a good thing) that my mother had been in a wreck. She is okay, just banged up a lot. My budget for the week though went into getting her […]
This week we didn’t hit an actual grocery store, instead we did a few Amazon grocery purchases and called it a week. I really didn’t need much, so using this weeks budget we grabbed a few things that are much cheaper online (or items that we can’t even find in our area). If you haven’t […]
I realized around Tuesday of this week that I forgot to post Friday Finals last week. Sorry about that! Here’s our savings for the last two weeks… It’s tradition to hit CVS on Black Friday. This year I took my twin 6 year olds. They did an awesome job, I think part of their motivation […]
