And now, the grocery spending.

Since I went so over-budget early this month, I’ve been having to try to make up for it ever since. This week, only $74 of our October budget was left, so that was my goal.

Here’s what I spent:

Aldi-$59.75

Weis-$23.46

Added up, that totals $83.21. That’s over my $74 goal, but only by $9.21, which isn’t too bad considering how deep a hole I dug for myself several weeks ago. Ahem.

In November, I’m giving myself a fresh start and I’m trying something different. Normally I pay cash at Aldi and use my credit card at Weis, because it gives me 3% back on my grocery spending). I’m going to use all cash for my groceries in November, though, and see if it inspires me to keep on track. I’ve already got the money set aside in an envelope, and hopefully I can manage to spend nothing but that cash on groceries.

Anyhoo, here’s the food I bought. You will notice that there is very little produce and not much meat. Our meat this week is coming from my freezer stash, and I purposely didn’t buy much in the way of produce because I need to use what is already in my fridge. Otherwise, I will have a very scary Food Waste Friday picture next week.

You may also notice that there are no stuffed animals. This is because none of us remembered in time. Zoe, bless her heart, remembered shortly after I had put most of the groceries away. Whoops.

I know that makes my food picture not as cute. So, here’s a little something to make up for it.

Next week: my first cash-only grocery shopping trip!