Kim | 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 [...]
Kim | February 12, 2010
I re-tweaked the last part of February’s menu to account for Ash Wednesday and to use up some roast in the freezer. I think we did pretty good this time around. Walmart Cereal – $5.12 (less $0.75 coupon, $4.37) Chili -2 cans at $0.97 Ground beef – 2.25 pounds, $4.23 Spaghetti sauce – 2 at [...]
Kim | January 31, 2010
Since we are going to be buying things like perishables, we’ve changed our shopping strategy from once a month to twice a month. We also significantly upped our food budget, yay! Based on what’s planned for the February menu, we purchased the following for two weeks: Bread Outlet Store: 6 loaves of wheat bread – [...]
Kim | December 31, 2009
Due to being in Paycheck Transition, Greg and I have to be extra careful for the first couple of weeks of January in terms of spending. Yesterday was payday, but the next paycheck will be pay from Old Job with New Insurance Deductions. Yesterday’s paycheck didn’t take out any deductions. We added vision coverage so [...]