Suburban Wife’s Daily Dollar Diary

a financial voyeur’s dream come true: all the intimate details of how, where, and why I spend money

Day 135: More Groceries

Posted on | January 14, 2008 |

The Son and I have been experimenting with recipes from his new cookbook: 
The America’s Test Kitchen Family Cookbook*
.  [By the way, every recipe we've tried has been great.]  We wanted to make the chicken pot pie but we didn’t have any chicken stock and, due to my allergies, I can’t use any of the commerical stock products.  So first we made some chicken stock, then the pot pie, and we topped it off with a very yummy apple cake with caramel icing.

All of that cooking — and the shopping for necessary ingredients, plus my other mom, work, homeschooling, scheduling duties – in one day was a little too much for this poor mom.  Luckily, there were enough pot pie leftovers to send some to school with The Daughter, feed The Son, and maybe even have a little dinner tomorrow.  And we’ll be eating apple cake all week.  On top of it all, I have two containers of chicken stock in the freezer.  I’m tired, but well fed and contented.  :-)

Vitamin Cottage — $25.95

  • 2 bags Barbara’s cheese puffs (diff varieties) — $1.55/ea.
  • Kettle potato chips — $2.19
  • DeBoles organic pasta — $1.85/ea.
  • bay leaves — $4.89
  • 15oz Muir tomato sauce (no salt) — $1.55
  • 8oz Muir tomato sauce — $0.75
  • gallon of Horizon 2% milk — $4.95
  • two onions — $0.81
  • 2 pkgs free-range chicken legs — $5.36
  • 2 pkgs free-range chicken thighs — $6.04

Kroger — $50.34

  • 2 gallons distilled water (for CPAP machine) — $0.69/ea.
  • organic red bell pepper — $1.99
  • green leaf lettuce — $1.99
  • cucumber — $1.29
  • green onions — $0.89
  • bunch radish — $1.29
  • organic carrots — $1.29
  • garlic — $0.69
  • Mariani dried mango — $2.59
  • Sunsweet prunes — $2.99
  • Cascadian Farm grape fruit spread — $2.50 (saved $0.69)
  • 2 boxes Nature Path toaster pastries — $2.50 (saved $0.99)
  • two 1/2-gallons Horizon chocolate milk — $2.99/ea. (saved $0.50/ea)
  • Meadow Gold whipping cream — $1.79
  • 80 load box of Tide Free — $10.00 (saved $6.79)
  • The Works toilet cleaner — $2.50 (saved $0.29)
  • Lysol wipes refill — $5.99
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