February Grocery Trips

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I was so happy that I was able to eat a little of this. Tasted wonderful! (Blackberry/blueberry pie)

Ok gang – Here is everything I bought this month. No joke.
Coming in a couple days – a photojournal of all of this month’s amazing morning-sickness friendly meals! 🙂 I do have next month’s menu written out and my grocery list made… I’ll probably share the menu with you but I won’t track stuff unless you really want.

Made my big Winco trip today with no kids. Made it through the morning sickness – yah!
02/02/12 – Winco
Total on groceries $125.30

$2.38 – Potatoes – 10 lb.
$6.58 – Carnation Instant Breakfast – attack against the morning sickness
$1.92 – Apple Cider Vinegar, Hy-top brand
2.66 – (2) – Pineapple Tidbits – Dole brand?
2.37 – 5lb. – White sugar
5.94 – (3) – Parmesan cheese – Hy-top
.44 – Salt – Hy-top
1.18 – (1) Frozen 100% Juice – Old Orchard – Cranberry Blend
3.54 – (3) Frozen 100% Juice – Old Orchard – Blueberry somethingorother
4.72 – (4) Frozen 100% Juice – Old Orchard – Other flavors, the scanner just scanned them all 🙂
2.94 – (2) Frozen 100% Juice – Welches – Grape, because I like it
3.93 – Vegetable Shortening – Hy-top (I don’t use it often, but sometimes need this stuff!)
2.56 – (2) Sour Cream (did you know the smaller tubs are usually cheaper per ounce?)
5.04 – (3) Yogurt – Lucerne (either Raspberry or Peach)
1.38 – 2lb. Dark Brown Sugar – Hy-top
10.96 – (2) 2lb. Medium Cheddar – Kraft
1.78 – 10 Mission Soft Taco Tortillas (they weren’t very cheap, but I’m sure I’ll be needing them so I grabbed just one 🙂
6.72 – (4) Yogurt – Lucerne (either Raspberry or Peach)
1.68 – pint Whipping Cream
1.78 – pint Whipping Cream (this brand had a longer expiration date)
1.97 – 18 Count eggs
4.57 – Chicken drumsticks (.97/lb)
3.13 – 1lb. Mozzarella Cheese (again, needed it and it was an “ok” price)
3.42 – 10.7lb. unbleached all purpose flour from bulk
3.17 – 5.19lb. Whole Wheat Bread Flour from bulk
3.68 – 6.26lb. white sugar from bulk
1.65 – 1.68lb. Broccoli (3 medium pieces)
3.92 – 1.23lb. yeast (enough for almost a quart jar full)
2.00 – 3.34lb. old fasioned oats (enough to fill one empty quaker tube container)
1.78 – Romaine Lettuce head (sadly smaller than I was hoping for; Winco usually has huge lettuce)
1.03 – .79lb. Cranberry almond granola to go on yogurt
.48 – Fresh cilantro bunch
1.97 – 2.16lb. white jasmine rice from bulk
2.98 – Ovaltine, Malt – how can I pass this up when it’s on sale?
10.74 – 1.96lb Walnut halves for in oatmeal
.57 – .65lb. tomatoes (token amount to make our tacos fancy)
.81 – 1.40lb. celery (for salads)
2.48 – (2) 8 oz. cream cheese – hy-top
.88 – 2lb. bag carrots (would get more, but we don’t eat them fast enough. Same with potatoes)
.68 – One little cucumber to make our salads fancy
1.00 – 1.72lb Bananas (4 bananas)
1.89 – 2.42lb. Braeburn apples (5 small/medium apples)

That’s it! I still need more bread and hamburger buns. I’ll need more lettuce or veggies before the month is out. If I see a good sale on something I always use, I’ll buy it. I’ve spent $125.30 of my $200 budget. That means I have almost $75 left for the rest of the month. I do actually have everything I need to make my meals for the next four weeks. All I’ll want is more produce and milk, but those are not must haves… just want-to-haves. (for us) I really wanted some squash to roast, but it was very expensive, so that’s why we have broccoli. 🙂 I’ll keep you posted on what we eat and how much I spend!

02/06/12 – Fred Meyer
Spent $16.80 on groceries

Bought:
$1.59 – 1 dozen eggs
$3.75 – 1 1/2 gallons milk (half gallons were on sale)
$11.46 – 10 loaves of bread (some $.99, some $1.25)

I froze all but one loaf of bread. I immediately made a cup of carnation instant breakfast with the milk. Go away morning sickness! (Actually, I am doing much better lately. Have my ups and downs during the day, but I’m moving again!)

02/07/2012 – Fred Meyer
$2.72 – 3 grapefruits and six apples

02/13/2012 – Fred Meyer
$6.15 after coupons and rewards:
2 pounds butter
Sprinkle cake mix for anna’s birthday in April
Gallon milk
18 ct. eggs
4.47 lbs. bananas (about 10)
.64 lbs. wheat bran from bulk

02/20/2012 – Fred Meyer
$9.26
4 tubs of yogurt
1 gallon milk

02/22/2012 Fred Meyer
25.87
12 lbs. of 80% lean hamburger at $1.99/lb
1 package of cream cheese for these awesome little cookie cheesecake things

I think I forgot a stop for ice cream – $5.00
I bought some taco seasoning off amazon – next time I will try cash n carry: $10.99
Bought something for $1.48 at Fred Meyer… have no idea.

Also – I bought most of the vanilla-making supplies out of my grocery budget, but I used last month’s surplus on that, so I won’t put it here.

Total for 4 weeks of February: 125.30 + 16.80 + 2.72 + 6.15 + 9.26 + 25.87 + 10.99 + 1.48 = 198.57

Woo hoo! $1.43 extra left over for next month! Which is good, because we’re out of ice cream and I’ll be stocking up on that if I can just find a good sale.