2016 Groceries Week 33 - $146.91

Even though we're home and I had lots of food planned for dinner I couldn't resist the lure of good sales (that had matching coupons) at Fred Meyer.  $83.15 later I had a large quantity of groceries to photograph! 

Here's the rundown:

• Tostitos on sale for $1.88 each with store coupon
• Corn dogs for $5.69
• Creamer for $2.50 with $1.35/2 MC = $1.83 each
• Baby Mum-Mum crackers for $2.50 each (almost half price)
• Almond coconut milk sale $2.50 each with $1.00/2 MC = $2.00 each
• Tyson chicken strips on sale for $5.99 with $2.50/2 MC = $4.74 each
• Horizon Mac'n'cheese $1.00 each with $1.00/3 MC = $0.67 each for 3, $1.00 for the other 2
• Better Than Cream Cheese - $3.49
• Lunchmeat - $3.00 for 1# packages with store coupon
• Kielbasa - nitrate free - $3.50 sale price (great for a crockpot stew we like)
• Brookside chocolates - $3.50 sale price with $2.00/1 MC = $1.50!
• 18 eggs - $1.93
• Navel oranges - $0.99/lb
• Bananas - $0.69/lb
• Bread (no sugar, no high fructose corn syrup, just honey) - $1.33 with store coupon
• Organic carrots - 2# for $1.79
• Frozen potatoes (to go with corn dogs) = $1.50 each on sale
• Parsley  - $0.79
• Baby food - $0.62 each with $1.00/3 MC = 0.29 each
• Cream cheese - $0.88 each with store coupon
• Peanut Butter - $1.79 on sale with $0.45 store coupon = $1.34
• Uncured bacon on clearance for $4.49

The little guy is eating a lot of banana so stopped Wednesday to grab a hand of bananas & cruised the borders of the store.  I spotted organic sour cream for $0.49!  I already had 2 or 3 tubs at home so I just bought one.  I spent $2.24.

I picked all of these goodies in the garden Thursday morning.  The garden is producing pretty perfectly for us right now.  Just enough tomatoes, zucchini in abundance (but we're keeping up pretty well), a cucumber now and then, a few strawberries to mix in the baby's cereal, and I was adjusting the cage on the tomatillo plant and one fell off into my hand.  I'm not sure what to do with it, but wow they've been interesting to watch grow.  It's like this empty husk of leaves, hollow, and it slowly grows fruit inside and gets heavier and heavier! Very cool.

Thursday night I went to Fred Meyer again and got lots of the same deals I mentioned above.  I laid out all the groceries - $41.03 worth - and put them away without taking a picture. 

Finally, one more stop at Fred Meyer to pick up grapes for a potluck contribution.  I also grabbed chips. I spent $20.49

 

 

Week 33 Total: $146.91

Year to Date: $5,252.97

Weekly Average: $159.18