March Shopping Trip 1
Posted By Kim on February 27, 2010
I decided to do something different with the March grocery run, mainly do a major purge of the freezer and pantry contents. This will finish off our meat stockpile, and unless Little One comes in the next two weeks; the only thing we’ll have left in our freezer is some corn and a bag of stir-fry veggies.
Our dinners:
Split pea and ham soup (crock-pot recipe book), turkey pot pie (my mom’s recipe), spaghetti with Italian sausage, biscuits and gravy, easy pot roast (crock-pot recipe book), chili (crock-pot recipe book), stir-fry, slow cooker beef au jus, jambalaya, pork chops and rice, BBQ pork, sweet mustard roast, fish and potatoes, tuna pasta
We didn’t need that many groceries this time around, mainly because I sought out recipes that utilized what we had on hand. We ended up getting:
Walmart:
2.5 pounds of Granny Smith apples – $3.41
One green pepper – $0.94
Cereal – $3.64 less $0.75 coupon = $2.89
Kashi cereal – $3.28 less $3.28 coupon = FREE
1 pound deli ham – $2.71
1/2 pound hard salami – $2.34
1 pound turkey pastrami – $2.95
1/4 pound baby Swiss – $1.25
Au jus mix – $0.96
Mustard – $0.96
Beef broth – $0.86
Cream of Potato soup – $1.26
Tuna – $0.77
Tea – $2.24 less $0.50 coupon = $1.74
Total: $22.99
Albertson’s
Butter – $1.79
2 pounds 85/15 ground beef – $4.35
1 onion – $0.27
Total: $6.40
Dollar Store
Cookies – $1.00
Apple bars – $1.00
Hot chocolate – $1.00
Total: $3.00
Grand total: $32.39, leaving $27.61 to get us to the next payday. This will be really handy should Little One come in the next two weeks, as Greg can use the remaining grocery budget to get himself food when I’m in the hospital (since my food is covered by insurance, but we would have to pay $7/meal for him – may as well go to the grocery store!).
You can tell that I’m getting more and more uncomfortable/tired/ready to deliver as a lot of the meals lately have either been crock-potted or boxed; even though I am capable of making things from scratch. Once Little One gets here and we’re all recovered and adjusted I can go back to that; but for now, as long as we’re fed I’m sort of not caring how. Just as long as it’s not crappy fast food. 
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My grocery budget is soooo jealous of yours!
Awwwwww! Are prices there just higher?
I think so- I’m shocked at the price on your apples! We also have about 8% sales tax. Coupons might help me, but I shop at Aldi so often that I don’t like to bother. Whine whine whine. (:
And here I was getting wanky about the price of those apples! :X
I think they were about $2.49/lb.I’ve noticed that MT definitely has a LOT lower food prices than places around the nation, it’s weird how that works out.The food coupons have been horrible recently (as evidenced by the lack of their usage). The Kashi coupon came in the mail and the tea + cereal coupons were good ol’ Internet printables. Our shampoo, etc stockpile is still MASSIVE, so while those ones are usually good; we have no need for them.
I so wish we had an Aldi. I’ve heard that place is crazy good.
P.s. how much are apples running there?
Aldi is good for most things. I get canned pears (baby loooooves them) at other places, though, because they only have fruit in heavy syrup. Please pack it in natural juices!
I think $2.50-$3/pound for apples is average… but now I’m not sure how you got 2.5 pounds for less than $5. Maybe I can’t read or do math, lol.
Okay, the apples thing is MY fault. We bought 2.5 pounds at $1.37/lb. *blush* I saw the first thing on the receipt (2.49) and forgot to read the rest of the line (@ 1.37/lb). I blame being hungry! :X
LOL, at least I know I’m not going crazy!
It’s not you, it’s meeeee!!