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Grocery Spending/Menu Plan | We finally left the house!

February 13, 2010

The back-to-back snowstorms we’ve been experiencing kept the kids and me home for a solid week. I didn’t mind at all, as I like being home, and cabin fever and I have never even come close to making an acquaintance. But, I was starting to need groceries after a whole week, so I cleaned off [...]

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Grocery Spending & Menu Plan | The Four-Store Edition

January 23, 2010

Normally, I keep my running around to a minimum, but on Monday, my husband’s day off, he sent me out by myself to Atlanta Bread Company for a re-grouping/planning session (yay!). Afterwards, I made two quick grocery stops. I had some coupons to use at Giant, and I spent a total of $6.97. I got [...]

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Grocery Spending/Menu Plan (with multiple photographers!)

January 16, 2010

I had a little help this week with the job of photographing the groceries. Lisey has a real camera, while Sonia has a toy one. Zoe prefers to shoot using a pair of binoculars (backwards). “Mommy, is dis a camra?”, she asked. I said, “No, but you can certainly use it as one.” And so [...]

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Grocery Shopping and Menu Plan (plus, the Living Water total!)

January 2, 2010

On Wednesday of this week, I had my most unusual grocery shopping trip ever, because I was wearing a microphone and had a video camera following me (I felt so reality-show-ish!). I did manage to stay on budget, though, despite the unusual circumstances! Here’s what I bought. and here’s what I spent. Aldi-$64.12 Weis-$35.81 Total-$99.93 [...]

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Grocery Shopping and Menu Plan | Cash Only, Week 3

November 21, 2009

(I don’t normally buy this many crackers, but they were on sale, I had coupons, and I also have a $10 rebate to send in. So, I bought extra now, which means I won’t have to buy some in future weeks.) This is my spending breakdown for the week: Aldi-$39.21 Weis-$58.57 Local store-$19.44 (these purchases [...]

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Menu Plan and Grocery Spending (week 2 of cash only)

November 14, 2009

This week, I did actually manage to go shopping on Thursday, instead of putting it off until I absolutely couldn’t go not go anymore (like I did the last two weeks!). My husband had a day off on Thursday, and we all went shopping together. Did you see something in there, behind the ham? Dark [...]

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