$$: Church, Dining, Groceries, Cosmetics, & Swimming

Church -- $50.00
It's been weeks since I've made an offering at church -- either because I didn't attend (after my surgery) or because I didn't have a check with me.  Today I wrote an extra large offering check to make up for all of those skipped weeks.

Whole Foods -- $31.67
The kids are definitely preferring Whole Foods to Einstein's Bagels these days as their after-church-sustenance stop.  We bought:

• @2# of 91% lean ground beef (for a meatloaf tonight) -- $9.80
• a box of microwave popcorn packages -- $2.99
• an avocado roll sushi tray (for The Son) -- $4.75
• a vegetable combo sushi tray (I ate the avocado rolls; The Daughter ate the rest) -- $5.95
• a house brand soda pop -- $0.59
• a red raspberry spritzer -- $1.39
• a lip gloss (that The Daughter just had to have -- don't worry, it comes out of her cosmetics budget) -- $4.95

Vitamin Cottage -- $19.94
Once I got home and started thinking about what I was really going to fix for dinner, I realized that I was missing several ingredients for tonight's menu of meat loaf, broccoli, and twice-baked potatoes.  Then I made the mistake of calling The Husband at work and discussing dinner with him and the menu got changed from twice-baked potatoes for dinner to twice-baked potatoes to be consumed on some future date (say, for lunches next week) and pan-fried fingerling potatoes for dinner tonight.  I also decided to add a delectable and irresistible Caramel Apple Cake for dessert.

So I needed:

• bag of Bob's Red Mill unbleached flour (didn't I just buy a bag recently; guess I'm baking a lot) -- $3.39
• Nancy's organic sour cream -- $1.49
• Organic Valley heavy cream -- $2.99
• Organic Valley buttermilk -- $2.95
• Organic Valley salted butter -- $3.99 (saved $1.36)
• 2.12# organic Granny Smith apples -- $4.64

Swim Team -- $485.00
The Daughter recently joined a competitive swim team.  This charge covers the $150 fee to the national swim association (an annual fee), the $55 annual team registration fee, and this month's and next month's pool fees.  Swimming is not an inexpensive sport.  I sent in all of the paperwork about two weeks ago but I only just received confirmation from the team that the charge had been sent through.

A few days ago The Daughter signed up for her first meet.  It only just occurred to me that she doesn't have a team suit yet and apparently it hadn't occurred to her either.  I imagine you'll be seeing that expense listed in my daily $$ postings before too long.

Related posts:

1. $$: Co-Pay, Fees, & Groceries
2. $$: Dec 7 — Pool Fees
3. Day 58
4. $$: Fluff
5. $$: The Day’s Expenses plus Swim Meet Tips