Suburban Wife’s Daily Dollar Diary

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

Day 257: Food!

Posted on | May 15, 2008 |

The Son and I did some serious grocery shopping today!  Usually getting The Son to accompany me to the store is a bit like pulling teeth but he gave me no arguments at all today — came along right willingly, actually.  I suspect that two weeks of dining with his dad while I was gone had a little something to do with this behavioral anomaly.

Vitamin Cottage — $96.54

  • non-flavored whey protein powder — $6.99
  • Annie’s penne pasta & cheese — $2.45
  • Annie’s pasta & cheese — $2.45
  • 2 boxes Cascadian Farm Purely O’s cereal — $4.35/ea.
  • Cascadian Farm frozen strawberries — $3.65
  • Hain Canola mayonnaise — $3.65
  • Applegate Farm sliced roast beef — $4.75
  • Applegate Farm sliced roast turkey — $5.15
  • Bob’s unbleached white flour — $3.15
  • Amy’s frozen pasta bowl — $4.39
  • Yaya cheese popcorn — $1.75
  • Pie Oh My frozen pie — $1.99
  • Barbara’s cheese puffs — $1.40 (saved $0.70)
  • Barbara’s baked cheese puffs — $1.40 (saved $0.70)
  • 2 tins Crown Prince smoked oysters — $2.35/ea.
  • Lund organic white basmati rice — $4.15
  • 2 boxes DeBoles elbow pasta — $2.19/ea.
  • 2 boxes DeBoles spaghetti pasta — $1.65/ea.
  • Organic Valley whipping cream — $2.89
  • Organic Valley buttermilk — $2.79
  • Organic Valley muenster cheese — $3.85 (saved $0.64)
  • organic strawberry kefir — $3.85
  • Horizon 2% milk — $5.15
  • Bionaturae pasta — $2.39
  • Mother’s Graham Bumpers cereal — $3.75

Kroger — $47.58

  • Horizon chocolate milk — $3.19 (saved $0.50)
  • Kroger raisin bran cereal — $1.89
  • Hidden Valley creamy ranch dressing — $3.30 (saved $0.39)
  • Breyer’s chocolate ice cream — $5.19 (saved $0.50)
  • Breyer’s specialty flavor ice cream — $5.19 (saved $0.50)
  • Smokey Robinson frozen seafood gumbo — $4.19
  • Amy’s frozen broccoli pocket — $2.29
  • Keebler chocolate chip cookies — $3.00 (saved $0.59)
  • Dole Orange/strawberry juice — $2.19 (saved $1.50)
  • Lay’s wavy BBQ chips — $1.77 (saved $1.21)
  • 2.06# Coleman ground beef — $10.28 (saved $2.06)
  • Hillshire Farm ham — $3.99
  • bag credit — ($0.05) — should have been $0.10 but the clerk shorted me one bag credit

According to the receipt, I saved $7.25 or 13% off my total order with my loyalty card.

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2 Responses to “Day 257: Food!”

  1. Rachel @ Master Your Card
    May 16th, 2008 @ 7:15 am

    I find it very interesting that you list all of your shopping on the blog. I was wondering whether you find it a really useful way of seeing exactly where the money goes when you spend it. Sometimes I think that I should do the same thing - I am sure that I could save a lot of money by just being more frugal in the supermarket.

  2. Suburban Wife
    May 19th, 2008 @ 7:43 am

    Rachel,

    Blogging my expenses helps me see more clearly my motivation for the purchases I make. Sometimes after I’ve written about a purchase it becomes clear that I’m justifying an unwarranted expense. Or a vanity expense. Or a lazy expense. But much more often, it has helped me realize what my real priorities are and has served to strengthen my commitment to certain values.

    Groceries is one of those priority and value areas that I’ve come to see clearer since blogging. Other than stocking up during good sales and analyzing prices at different stores, I would say that grocery shopping is the one area in which I make no attempt whatsoever to be frugal. Buying healthy food, and plenty of it, has always been and will continue to be a top priority for me.

    I rarely use coupons because, with rare exceptions, the only coupons run in the papers are for cr*p that I don’t feed my family. The vast majority of our meals are made from scratch. When I do buy packaged or frozen food, I make an effort (and spend the money) to buy healthy and, if possible, organic products.

    I consider myself very blessed to have the funds available to me to make such an investment in our health and well-being.

    When I read other personal finance blogs, one of the most common areas for tighting the budget is in the grocery store. Personally, I think that’s the last place a family should tighten their budget belts — unless, of course, the family spends a lot of money eating out or buying soda, chips, and junk food. I can think of no less than five budget areas I’d be willing to cut back on before touching my grocery budget (entertainment, clothing, gifts, technology, phone/utilities).

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