Results of Shopping

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Today, I had a spontaneous shopping day. I was just sharing on Twitter, that I have been having trouble staying on task, yesterday it was because I had alot of excitement, the call from the literary agent, being interviewed by Marie Ynami for Mommycommunity, and talking about an upcoming event with a ministry client. Today, just the opposite happened. I had a bad situation arise with my bank account. Apparently a large check came through before my Paypal money got there causing me to have a negative balance. Of course I freaked out and planned a trip to the bank, which is 10 miles away.

Not wanting to waste the trip and the gas, I decided I’d better go ahead and go grocery shopping while I was out. So, I hurriedly made a grocery list and menu and then went over there to deposit some cash I happened to have and try to grocery shop on $51 that I had left in my grocery envelope. This was a difficult task and I was $3.93 off and had to use the debit card for that. But I was CLOSE! I only had $50 this week rather than $60 because Monday night I had to go get my son some snacks for school and my hubby requested something sweet so I spent a few dollars there and something else came up too I can’t recall.

Anyway, My meals for the week running Thursday – Wednesday are:

Roast beef sammies, fries

Chicken fritters, mac/cheese, a veggie

Home made pizza

Chicken and wild rice casserole, 2 veggies

Burritos

Breakfast

Meatloaf, tators, a veggie

Chili

Beef stew

Now for some of the “deals” I got. I used several coupons a $1 coupon for the pillsbury pizza dough, a daisy sour cream coupon for $0.35 which the store doubled and Daisy was on sale for $0.99 so I got the sour cream for $0.29!!!! I got the frozen burritos which were on sale 2 for 0.79 I bought 4 and got them for $0.39 or $0.40 cents each. I also used a $1 jimmy dean sausage coupon.

total savings on coupons was $3.70. I know I’m still a newbie at this couponing thing, but I am getting better. I am feeding my family this week for $54 when I used to spend $100-110 a week on groceries.