Well, I made the mistake of going to Wal-Mart when I was hungry this week. After a long morning of working, taking Michael to the doctor and then to school I tried to cram in a quick, small grocery trip to Wal-Mart. Remember I had a couple of gift cards? The gift cards totalled about $20 and I spent $34.17 out of pocket.
Can you tell what we were out of/or needed? Lunch packing stuff, vitamin C and cold supplies. Michael has been sick for a long time with the other kids passing around the same cold/cough thing. Except Michael’s turned into an ear infection and sinus infection. I felt the need to get some good vitamins pumped into everyone. We had strawberry/kiwi/spinach slushies last night and the kids have been getting OJ for breakfast again.
On the lunch making front – cream cheese, salami, ham, raisin packs, and go-gurts should help me get through the month with what I have on hand. Leftovers don’t go far when you are packing 5 lunches each day. I did stay out of the snack aisle.
An Earth Fare grocery store (like Whole Foods) just opened up near me and they sent me a coupon for a free whole organic chicken with a $10 purchase. It expired today. Chicken is the only meat that we don’t eat local/organic very often because it is so darn expensive. I couldn’t pass it up to get a free one – plus we were out of Emma’s butter and I needed to go to a specialty store to get it anyway.
The weather was really bad, so Kevin went with the instructions to get the chicken, Emma’s butter, a pomegranate and some grape tomatoes. Well, at least we got the butter and chicken! He said the pomegranates looked really bad and that he didn’t really think I wanted tomatoes. So he got Emma her beloved Luna bars and the juice instead. Men! Total spent was $10.34 (he did great there!)
Total for the month $182 or so.
*This post is linked to Learning the Frugal Life.
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Your doing great for having to pack 5 lunches a day. That would be tough. I am looking forward to the Whole Foods that is suppose to open up here. It will be nice even though it will be clear on the other side of town. Thanks for linking up. I look forward to hearing how the rest of your month goes.
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