I went grocery shopping with my list in hand and menu. My total came to, drum roll please... $98. O.K, um, waaaaaaaaaaa.lol. The original total: $107, but I used $10 in coupons, which has never happened before (thanks to the suggestion for the coupon mom website).The bad news was that my target goal of $80 was over by $18. Although I normally spend between $100-150 the good news is that I've never had so much savings using coupons or been as aware as to what was on sale. Plus, to offset this experience there was man wearing a skirt and brown ralph lauren(ish) type boots in the baking isle. It was not a kilt either as I did a double take to figure out what was going on. So imagine buying flour and seeing a fully bearded man wearing a green, mid-length skirt, boots, and a jacket. He bought a cake mix. Also, I have never tried the crescent croisants before...on sale,they were more like round biscuits tonight because by the time I got home the tube was literally just a tube of dough. Those special lines that are supposed to be there were not. So...if anyone knows what shape these are supposed to be in off the tube, please let me know. We had round not so pretty biscuity things instead. I am not sure how people are buying groceries for $60-70 a week for a family of 4? Anyway, I also decided to buy flour and baking ingredients, which is also a new one. I found a play dough recipe, muffin, and biscuit recipe that I am going to try. TRY is the key word here...I am not known for my cooking skills.We also got our taxes done today. Our refund will go toward making up our mortgage and hopefully plane tickets for a family wedding.
Grocery Budget...and a man in a skirt
February 7th, 2011 at 12:30 am
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The crescent rolls are supposed to be triangluar in shape and then you just sort of roll them from the wider end to the narrow end.
If you are going to start baking bread, just a tip, wait until the bread is completely cold before cutting it into slices. Otherwise the bread tears easily and it can be hard to cut proper toast and sandwich sized slices.
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If you want help getting it down more, post what you bought.
I for one, would not have bought the crescent rolls, I would have made them from scratch.
Also, don't be afraid of the generics (they are often cheaper than buying the brand even if you use coupons). Generic is great for flour, sugar, spices, juices--I get a lot of store brand/generics and my only complaints are generic TP, and the Aldi brand of canned pears.
February 7th, 2011 at 05:17 pm 1297099025
Next week challenge yourself to beat what you did this week. And start trying to stock up on little things here and there. Pick up two bottles of ketchup if they are on sale and put one away in the pantry, or two bags of flour and throw one in the freezer, and so on. Little steps!
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Good luck with all your baking.