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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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Grocery Spending and Menu Plan | Warm Day Edition

January 30, 2010

The groceries are a little lacking in stuffed animals this week. That’s because it was a lovely, warm day when we went shopping (50 degrees!), and my kids were out enjoying the weather instead of putting stuffed animals on the groceries. Of course, Zoe had a sea creature with her. (the kids have named this [...]

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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 Spending and Menu Plan-January, week 1

January 9, 2010

Here’s my groceries, and some wired children. All four of them managed to make it into one of the pictures I took. Some hamsters also made their way into the picture this week. I spent $57 at Aldi, and at Weis, I spent $45, which makes for a total of $102. Here’s what we’ll be [...]

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Grocery Spending and Menu Plan

December 12, 2009

Last week, I didn’t post about my grocery spending because I hadn’t gone yet (and because I wanted to share about my Living Water donation plan). Instead, I made a quick trip on Monday just to get us through until the next regular shopping day. So, here’s my spending totals for the last two weeks: [...]

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