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Grocery Report/Menu Plan | Last one for May!

May 29, 2010

On Saturdays, I share my menu plan for the upcoming week along with a photo of my groceries and a tally of my spending. My goal is to spend $100/week for our food, toiletries, and cleaning products. I’m currently in the midst of trying to buy more local, sustainably-produced food while sticking to my budget. [...]

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Grocery Spending/Menu Plan | Busy Day Edition

May 15, 2010

If you follow me on Facebook, you know that I put off grocery shopping until mid-afternoon this week, and so all six of us headed out to shop together after Mr. FG came home. Since this wasn’t at all close to our normal routine, and since we got home a lot later than usual, my [...]

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$4/week on groceries? No thanks.

May 6, 2010

The following video has been circulating around the internet for a while now, and every time I see it, I keep thinking that I really ought to write a blog post with my thoughts on it.  I have another post on coupons in the works, but for now, I just want to share my perspective [...]

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Grocery Spending/Menu Plan | Peeperific Edition

April 3, 2010

The Peeps are in honor of tomorrow’s holiday, of course. I apologize for the way that they are obscuring the actual groceries….next week the stuffed animal population should be smaller. In case you missed it there in the back, I bought more flour. Weis had it on sale for $1.50/bag, so I bought ten bags.  [...]

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Grocery Report and Menu Plan | in slightly more detail than usual

March 6, 2010

For a change this week, I divided my groceries into piles, and took pictures of each.  A lot of you have asked for more detail about my shopping, so I’ll explain a little bit about why I bought the items in each picture. First up, the cold stuff.  All of it is from Aldi except [...]

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Grocery Spending and Menu Plan | The Birthday Shopping Trip

February 20, 2010

As it happened, our weekly shopping trip landed on Zoe’s birthday. Fortunately, she doesn’t mind grocery shopping, so she wasn’t at all upset about this turn of events. We made a birthday cake first… …and then we headed out to go shopping. Here’s what we bought. The kids wanted me to show you what we [...]

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