Day 147: Food, Food, and More Food

Bas­ket­ball.  Most of the day today was ded­i­cated to bas­ket­ball.  And food.

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First I had to “bribe” The Son to come to the game and work concessions/admissions.  I promised him lunch.

Good Times — $7.10
Did you know that Good Times uses Cole­man all-natural beef?  Did you know that they’re much more expen­sive than Wendy’s?  The Son ordered two full-sized cheese­burg­ers and a medium soda.

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Then, what’s a sport­ing event with­out munchies?  Avoid­ing munchies is even harder when you’re work­ing con­ces­sions.  Between The Son, The Daugh­ter, and the girls who needed a short-term loan,   I dropped $5 in cash on munchies and drinks.  At least I didn’t have to pay any admis­sions fees since it was a home game.

After work­ing and watch­ing dur­ing the girls’ game, I took off to run a quick errand while the boys warmed up and then started their game.

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Mar­shalls — ($42.93)
I returned the DLO FM trans­mit­ter I bought early this month.  I love the DLO FM trans­mit­ter I use in The Tank and bought this sec­ond unit for The Daugh­ter to use in The Husband’s Sub­aru.  But then I found a Belkin trans­mit­ter at Costco.  This unit will fit bet­ter in the Sub­aru and it came pack­aged with sev­eral cool addi­tional acces­sories.  Plus it was the last one on the shelf and was dras­ti­cally reduced.  We decided to keep the Belkin (though, hon­estly, after using both I feel the DLO is a supe­rior product).

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I got back from the errand in time to watch a very excit­ing but dis­ap­point­ing fin­ish to the boys’ game, col­lect both of the kids, and finally head home.  But noth­ing is ever quite that sim­ple, is it?  Of course not.  The Daugh­ter was hun­gry.  And we were com­pletely out of milk.

Wendy’s — $5.80
The Daugh­ter ordered a grilled chicken sand­wich, a side salad (instead of french fries — good for her), and a small Dr. Pep­per.  I don’t like the kids to drink caf­feine but I don’t police it as much as I used to when they were younger.  Nei­ther one con­sumes much caf­feine — cer­tainly not daily doses.  I fig­ure she could be into a lot worse things than a Dr. Pep­per here and there.

And the last stop of the day:

Kroger — $17.47

• gal­lon of Hori­zon 2% milk — $4.88 (saved $0.07)
• 1/2 gal­lon of Hori­zon choco­late milk — $2.99 (saved $0.50)
• 1/2 gal­lon Dole orange/peach/mango juice — $3.34 (saved $.035)
• Planter’s mixed nuts — $2.99 (saved $2.00)
• Kee­bler choco­late chip cook­ies — $2.99
• bag cred­its — ($0.15)

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