Einstein Bros. Bagels — $17.29
It’s been several weeks since we made an after-church bagel run so when The Son requested one this morning I said sure.  The kids had gotten hot and sweaty playing ball in the church parking lot so I also let them each have a drink — The Son chose a Sprite and The Daughter had a Nantucket Nectar.  For bagels, we purchased a dozen bucket deal (a baker’s dozen of bagels and two tubs of schmear).

REI — $58.17

• 2 large blue Everyday large-mouth bottles for The Daughter — $9.50/ea.
• 1 blue Everyday OTG Tritan water bottle for The Daughter — $9.95/ea.
• 2 large spring green Everyday large-mouth bottles for The Son — $9.50/ea.
• 1 “smile” Guyot Designs Splashguard — $2.95
• 1 “skull & crossbones” splashguard — $2.95 (for The Son — they make drinking from a wide-mouth bottle easier)

What’s a mom to do?  I’d always been under the impression that the hard plastic bottles didn’t leech chemicals the way the soft bottles do.  They certainly don’t leech that awful plastic taste.  When I started reading about the potential BPA issues in our old bottles, I knew I had to bite the bullet and replace them — even though I bought new ones not so very long ago.  As a very unexpected bonus, it turns out I’ll be able to return the old bottles for a refund (see my earlier post).

Plato’s Closet — ($9.30)
I’ve seen these stores (warning: loud, obnoxious music on website) around but never really knew what they sold or how they worked.  Today, The Daughter took me to one.  I guess she’d heard about them from a friend.  They seem to be very similar to Buffalo Exchange.  Anyway, The Daughter had a couple of pair of American Eagle jeans that she says are too short (translation: they aren’t two inches too long and drag on the floor) and she’s looking for shorts for this summer.  I was happy to tag along because I had a bag of clothes The Son had outgrown.

The trip was a little disappointing.  They only wanted one pair of her jeans.  And of all the summer items I had from The Son, they only took one pair of Old Navy shorts.  At least half of The Son’s clothes are actually kid’s sizes which Plato’s Closet doesn’t accept.  They suggested I try their sister store:  Once Upon A Child (warning: more obnoxious music).

I was shocked and dismayed, however, that they rejected his beautiful J.Crew “broken in” t-shirts.  They’re all from last year, worn only one season, and completely flawless.  Their sin, it seems, is that they are plain.  The Son refuses to wear logos (says he should be paid to advertise for companies) and doesn’t like smart-aleck logos or slogans.  It just happens that Plato’s Closet recently stopped buying plain t-shirts because they don’t sell.  Which is why I walked away empty-handed — no plain t-shirts in The Son’s size.  The Daughter walked away empty-handed too.  Well, almost.  We did get $9.30 for the shorts and the jeans — nothing compared to what we paid but more than we would have had if we’d donated the items.

I don’t see a promising relationship with Plato’s Closet in my future — although maybe they’ll be interested in The Son’s pants as he starts outgrowing them.  I’m hoping I have better luck at OUAC tomorrow. 

Total Spent Today:  $220.86 

Audition — $15.00
The Son’s teacher and I convinced him to audition in hopes of being moved to the next level in his community orchestra.  I fear he won’t be advanced but I’m glad he had this experience — the work of preparing a piece and the agony of auditioning.  In other news, I managed to convince him to particpate in the music camp that directly preceeds the beginning of orchestra in the fall.  If, by some miracle, he is advanced to the next level, the camp will give him a chance to meet, play with, and socialize with the other kids in his group.  If he remains in his current orchestra level, the camp will hopefully give him a leg-up and improve his chances of sucess in chair auditions.  Moving up in his chair position is really his main goal.

Musical Tickets — $62.00
I finally found a performance that I think The Daughter will enjoy (let’s face it, she’s simply more pedestrian in her tastes than The Son is).  I’ve been bugging her for two weeks to pick a performance date because a good many of the performance dates are completely sold out.  I pinned her down this morning and made her pick a date because I had to be at the performing arts center today for The Son’s audition — I absolutely hate paying extra fees for buying tickets on-line or over the phone.  Despite waiting until half of all the performances were sold out, I still managed to get two excellent seats.  I hope the show is worth it.

The Container Store — $79.61
Isn’t it depressing how quickly plastic storage containers and the like can add up?  I bought:

• a white oval trash can for our master bathroom — $5.99
• 2 small stacking storage bins — $9.99/ea.
• 2 sets of casters for above bins — $4.99/ea.
• 1 lid for above bin — $4.99 (these bins will be used in The Son’s closet to hold socks and misc stuff that gets dumped on the floor on a regular basis; putting them in bins will allow me to roll the bins out and swiffer the closet floor more easily)
• tie hanger/rack for The Son — $4.99
• lingerie drying rack — $4.99 (we simply have too many wool socks to dry on our lone lingerie rack)
• a small concealed book shelf — $9.99
• a large concealed book shelf — $12.99 (I’ve been curious to try these out — they look fun and practical)

Orchestra Tickets — $50.25
Just last Sunday during The Husband’s birthday party I brought out my CD of Carl Orff’s Carmina burana.  Then last Friday, The Son asked me about that same piece and I mentioned that some day I’d love to go hear it in person.  The very next day I opened the paper to find an ad for our local symphony — performing that very piece.  So this afternoon I bought the tickets and this evening The Son and I got all gussied up in our cultural experience clothes.  It was A-Maze-ing!  My whole body is still vibrating.

In retrospect I think my decision to go with cheaper “nosebleed” seats was a good one.  Although the visual aspect of any live performance shouldn’t be underrated, the auditory experience of a piece like this one is clearly what really counts.  By buying lower-priced seats, I was able to stretch our recreation:entertainment dollars leaving money in the budget for the next experience (or, more accurately, allowing me to see the symphony tonight with The Son and a musical next month with The Daughter without going over budget).

Parking — $8.00
It occured to me on the drive home tonight that maybe parking and concession expenses during our cultural experiences should be put into the recreation:entertainment budget category because they are “necessary” additional expenses.  But for now I’ve decided simply to increase my auto:other budget slightly to allow for parking and make sure to adjust our dining out so that concession expenses fit within our food:dining budget.

Concessions — $6.00
The prices of these things are simply outrageous.  I’m really going to have to get better about packing in our own water and snacks when we attend events.  Anyway, I spent $3.00 on a mega-sized chocolate chip cookie for The Son and $3.00 on a bottled water for the two of us to share.

Actually posted on May 15 — catching up with daily expenditures.

I didn’t get to attend church today (The Son had an early baseball game) so here’s another week in which no check has been written for my weekly offering.  I’ll catch up next week.

The Husband turned 73 on the 9th and we had a little family celebration with a pan of brownies and a new shirt on Friday.  But today is the big day — the day on which all of his older children and his granchildren come over for a proper birthday party.  And the cupboards were literally bare!

Kroger — $131.30

• Cascade dishwashing gel — $3.99 (I usually buy Ecover tablets but they’re eating up the plastic piece in my dishwasher. The scent of the Cascade powders trigger asthma attacks in me so I didn’t want to go back to that.  I figure I’ll give this stuff a try.)
• 12-pack Sprite — $3.67 (saved $0.72)
• Kroger wheat hot dog buns — $1.69
• Orowheat bread — $4.29
• other bread — $3.19
• 2 bags Kettle potato chips — $2.50/ea. (saved $0.49/ea.)
• Kroger T.P. — $3.39 (saved $0.50) [this was a smaller package of mega rolls; they didn’t have the mega packs of regular rolls that I prefer — hope that package hasn’t been discountinued]
• 1.75# carrots — $1.03
• 10.2# yellow seedless watermelon — $10.10 (whoever heard of yellow watermelon? — I cut into this and freaked out thinking it was bad or defective; made The Son taste it and make sure it was good)
• Driscol blackberries — $4.99
• Driscol blueberries — $0.00 (saved $4.99 with BOGO offer)
• 2 containers Driscol raspberries — $4.99 (saved $4.99 with BOGO offer)
• 2 containers Driscol strawberries — $3.99 (saved $3.99 with BOGO offer)
• cubed pineapple — $3.15
• Gala apples — $1.60
• 1.53# bananas — $1.06
• radishes — $1.29
• leaf lettuce — $1.49
• green onions — $0.89
• 1.91# celery — $2.65
• 1.35# navel oranges — $2.15
• yellow bell pepper — $1.99
• green bell pepper — $1.49
• 1.60# red cabbage — $1.26
• Horizon 2% milk — $5.15
• 2 cartons Horizon chocolate milk — $3.19/ea. (saved $0.50/ea.)
• Organic Valley whipping cream — $2.99
• Kroger cheddar cheese — $2.50 (saved $0.19)
• Nest Fresh eggs — $3.69
• Heinz ketchup — $1.99
• 1.04# deli sliced roast beef — $7.27 (saved $2.08)
• 0.7# deli sliced ham — $4.19 (saved $1.40)
• 0.46# deli sliced colby jack cheese — $2.76 (saved $0.69)
• 2 packages Coleman hot dogs — $5.49/ea.

According to the receipt, I saved a total of $16.54 or 11% off my total grocery bill with my loyalty card.  I didn’t have my reusable Chicobags with me so I had to ask for paper bags instead.  That worked out to be just fine, however, because apparently we were all out of paper bags and needed some more — The Son puts newspapers to be recycled at the curb in paper bags.

Actually posted on May 15 — catching up with daily expenditures.

A totally crazy day — driving from here to there; doing this and that.  In between all of that craziness, I found a few minutes to run an errand I’d been meaning to do for weeks and weeks:

Old Navy — $15.04
Two pair of cotton PJ pants for The Son — deeply discounted, too.  If past summers are any indication, even these lightweight cotton pants will be too much to wear to bed in the heat of the summer.  I don’t know what he’ll want to wear during the heat waves but I imagine he’ll let me know when he needs something else.

Also spent today, though not by my own hand:

Mortgage — $1,640.10
I don’t include this expense every month because, as I said, it’s not a payment I make.  It’s one of those regular monthly payments that The Husband takes care of.  Since I’m reconstructing my expenses from my YNAB program, however, I see that this payment was entered automatically into my budget today so I thought I might as well include it.

Actually posted on May 15 — catching up with daily expenditures.

Pottery Barn Kids — $30.45
I bought a doll’s hook-onto-the-table highchair for my niece’s (and god-daughter’s) upcoming 4th birthday.

Anthropologie — $16.80
Two metal hooks for my front hallway.  Ever since my mom took back her coatrack, I’ve been trying to figure out what to do with my front hallway.  I liked the coatrack but don’t really want a new one.  I don’t want one of those boards with a series of hooks — it’s not the look I’m going for and I don’t like the way the hooks are all crammed together in a row.  My plan is to install a mismash of hooks and knobs, randomly and well-spaced.  It would be fun to post a photo when I’m done with the project.

IKEA — $9.95
I’d never before been in an IKEA.  It was an amazing experience.  Why in the world don’t they have an IKEA here?  No Trader Joes and no IKEA.  Makes no sense to me.  But it’s probably better for me that I don’t live near an IKEA.  The selection was amazing as were the prices.  But as my mom and I wandered through the showroom I realized what a temptation it would be to replace perfectly good items with new and different ones just because they’re available and cheap.

• a string of star-shaped lights for The Daughter’s room — $8.39
• a set of 4 miniature magnetic bulldog clips for my magnetic board — $1.56

Actually posted on May 4 — still traveling but finally in a location where time and internet access are available at the same time.

My mom and I are in The Big Apple (aka New York City) visiting my brother, my sister-in-law, and my niece.  They live in Manhattan just blocks away from Ground Zero.

Today we spent some time doing the tourist thing — shopping for gifts and souvenirs for family back home.  Here’s what I found:

Kate’s Paperie — $5.42
A cool notebook for The Daughter.

cash — $0.75
A bottled water for my mom.

Borders — $10.78
A NYC guidebook.

Pearl River Mart — $53.07

• A silk kimono which will be given as a birthday gift to Granddaughter #1 later this month
• Eye Bod — a cool plastic eyeglasses holder shaped like a funny character — for The Son
• Chinese Take-Out shaped lamp — for The Son’s room

street vendor/cash — $2.50
A Statue-of-Liberty-shaped refrigerator magnet — to add to our collection of fun magnets.

Total Spent Today:  $ 244.62

This garage door opener is eating my lunch!  The issue isn’t completely resolved and put to bed, plus I’m beyond exhausted and in a great deal of pain, so I’m not going to go into all the hairy details right now.  Suffice it to say that my $227 garage door opener just cost me another $167 for the services of a master electrician. 

In other news, Happy Earth Day!  I celebrated Earth Day by turning down a free reusable bag from the grocery store (see below).  As much as I appreciated the offer (a one-day Earth Day special offer), I informed the clerk that I’ve got the recycling part down with my handy ChicoBags and by turning down the bag I’m doing my part to reduce.  The last thing I need is another reusable bag to stick in my coat closet to gather dust; it could hang there with the dozen or more canvas bags I’ve acquired over the years and never remember to use.

Electrician — $167.30
Two hours’ labor, a GFI outlet, and a new 20 amp circuit breaker fuse.

Vitamin Cottage — $77.32

• salted and roasted sunflower seeds (The Daughter loves these on her salads) — $2.17
• Cascadian Farm Purely O’s cereal — $4.35
• Applegate sliced roast beef — $4.75
• Applegate sliced smoked turkey — $5.15
• Barbara’s cheese puffs (The Daughter’s favorite kind) — $1.49 (saved $0.50)
• Barbara’s cheese puffs (The Son’s favorite kind) — $1.49 (saved $0.50)
• Kettle potato chips (The Husband’s favorites) — $4.55
• 2 cans Crown Prince albacore tuna — $2.49/ea.
• 2 cans Crown Prince smoked oysters — $2.35/ea.
• 4 boxes De Boles spaghetti pasta — $1.95/ea.
• De Boles elbow macaroni pasta — $2.19
• Organic Valley buttermilk — $2.79
• Organic Valley string cheese — $4.45
• Organic Valley muenster cheese — $4.49
• 2 cans Muir Glen tomato sauce — $1.65/ea.
• 18 ct Nest Fresh large white eggs — $3.99
• organic ground beef — $3.99 (saved $0.76)
• colby longhorn cheese — $3.65
• gallon Horizon 2% milk — $5.15

Total Spent Today:  $1,065.03 

Costco Gas — $65.03
I tanked up The Tank today.  I haven’t had to do that for over a month because I’ve been driving my mom’s car.  Sure, I’ve been filling up her tank but her car gets nearly twice the gas mileage that The Tank does.  I pumped 20.202 gallons @ $3.219/gallon.  My odometer reads 121,884 miles.

Urgent Care Center — $75.00
Weeks ago The Daughter suffered yet another sports-related injury.  She asked me to take her to have it x-rayed and I said no.  What kind of mother am I?  I wouldn’t be surprised if Child Services showed up on my doorstep next week.  Yes, I told her to take Arnica and ice it.  She didn’t.  She kept playing and reinjuring it and expecting me to listen to her whining — which I did, though not will a full dose of compassion.  Anyway, as you can guess, the injury hasn’t healed.  It still hurts.  Well, duh.

But you know what, the only other time she’s suffered an injury that I didn’t have checked out?  Her arm was actually broken.  And it took me three days to take her to the doctor.  She was only 6.  I’m still feel guilty about that one.

So I took her to the clinic this afternoon.  It wasn’t broken.  Just badly sprained.  But they put a splint on it, closer to a cast than not, and told her no volleyball for at least a week.  So what I really spent $75 on today was the privilge of having an authority figure give The Daughter the same advice I gave her weeks ago — and for free.

Deck Contractor — $925.00
The contractor showed up today and finished repairing and refinishing our back deck.  It looks great.  The project cost me $200 more than originally expected because we ran into a problem with the railing that had been removed by the handyman who tore down my shed.  It was a legitimate change order, and as much as I would have rather not pay any more than the original contract amount, I knew it was necessary.

Total spent today:  $405.14

Okay, ladies.  Are your husbands impossible to shop for?  I really want to know.

The Husband’s 73rd birthday is fast approaching.  Shopping for this man has got to be one of the most difficult and frustrating tasks I face every year.  He never wants anything.  He has no hobbies and no vices.  He doesn’t collect anything.  All of his favorite authors have died off over the past few years so even finding him a new book has become next to impossible.

On the face of things, The Husband should be the easiest person in the world to shop for.  He’s perfectly happy getting the most mundane things like underwear and socks.  He’s just as happy with a gift that cost $10 as he is something that cost $100.  He’s even happy receiving gifts that are really for someone else (like that vacuum cleaner he got for Christmas a few years ago).

But he’s got all the underwear, socks, and t-shirts that he needs.  More, in fact.  And we don’t need a new vacuum cleaner nor any other household appliances.  What’s a wife to do?

Luckily, The Husband hates surprises.  He loves being consulted about what to get him for his birthday so at least I don’t have the added pressure of coming up with gift ideas while trying to maintain an element of surprise.

So, last night I asked him what he wanted for his birthday.  He thought for a few minutes and then said he wanted a new garage door remote.  His remote died earlier this week and, like Humpty Dumpty, no amount of kings nor horses is going to bring it back to life.  It’s an ancient remote that triggers an ancient opener on a 30-year-old badly-in-need-of-replacement garage door.  Well, I don’t consider myself to be a prima donna or anything but I’m not sure I can see myself wanting nothing more than a garage door remote for my birthday.

Therefore as part of my errands today I stopped in The Home Depot to check out the garage door remote selection.  Can you possibly guess how much those puppies cost!?  Come on, I dare you.  Take a wild guess.

Well, they cost between $25 and $35.  Did you come close?  Can you believe that?  Twenty-five smackers for a new garage door remote.

Now, don’t get me wrong.  Twenty-five bucks is way under what I’ve budgeted for The Husband’s birthday.  It’s not that I object to spending $25 on his birthday gift; it’s that $25 for a garage remote strikes me as ridiculous.

So I didn’t buy one.  Nope.  I bought a new garage door opener instead.

Is it just me or does spending $200 on a new garage door opener, complete with two remotes, wireless keyless remote entry pad, safety stop laser thingy, and wall activator with a lifetime warranty on parts and on the motor — isn’t that easier to take than spending $25 on a new remote?  A generic remote that, once we do get around to replacing the ancient and badly-in-need-of-replacement garage door and with it the garage door opener, will be completely obsolete and no longer needed?  And what about how incredibly convenient it would be to have two remotes so that I, too, can open the garage door when I come home even though I don’t park The Tank in the garage.  Not to mention the fact that the existing ancient garage door opener doesn’t have any safety beams or safety off functionality (just ask our trash cans what that’s like).

Yup, I took the liberty of upgrading his birthday request.  I’m not sure how the idea’s going to fly though.  It’s currently under consideration.  If he decides he really just wants the remote, I’ll take the opener back and exchange it for a remote — no harm done.

So, here’s what I spent today:

Music Store — $24.64

• Suzuki cello book 3
• accompanying, but optional, CD

The Son is not yet done with Book 2 but his teacher wants him to prepare one of the songs in Book 3 for his audition next month.

The Home Depot — $305.96

• Genie H8000 garage door opener — $227.00
• 10″ lamp harp — $3.97 (for my bedroom lamp and new shade)
• 2 60watt par30 flood lighbulbs for basement track lighting — $7.97/ea.
• 48″ Rubbermaid FastTrack rail — $9.97
• 24″ Rubbermaid mesh basket — $9.99 (on sale)
• Rubbermaid vertical ball rack — $9.99 (on sale)
• Rubbermaid wheelbarrow holder — $7.49 (on sale)

Target — $21.61
Well, I stopped here to see if they have a “touch” lamp to replace The Daughter’s lamp that recently broke.  I didn’t find any touch lamps (you know, they turn and and off when someone touches the metal base) but I did find the perfect lampshade.  I liked the one I found at Tuesday morning earlier this week but I love this one.  The Husband even likes it.  Did I mention it’s perfect?  You tell me, what do you think of it?

This means, of course, that I’ll have to return both the Tuesday Morning lampshade and the 10″ harp I bought earlier today at The Home Depot.  But that’s a small price to pay for the perfect lampshade.

Wild Oats — $17.62
Wow, that’s a lot of money.  Can you believe I spent all of that money on meat for dinner tonight?  No wonder we don’t eat like this more often.  But it was a great meal — chops, rice, a large fresh salad for the girls, and cooked carrots for the boys.

• 2 bone-in pork chops — $10.28 (for The Husband and The Daughter)
• 2 “blade” lamb chops — $7.03 (for The Son and I)

Kroger — $35.31

• green leaf lettuce — $1.49
• broccoli — $1.02 (saved $1.29)
• celery — $1.65
• green onions — $0.89
• carrots — $1.00
• sugar snap peas — $3.64
• butternut squash — $3.22
• oranges — $4.10
• pears — $3.78
• bananas — $1.28
• Odwalla B Berrier — $2.00 (saved $0.99)
• Breyer’s chocolate ice cream — $5.19 (saved $0.50)
• Breyer’s french vanilla ice cream — $5.19 (saved $0.50)

Bed, Bath & Beyond — ($3.23)
I had to return/exchange one of the six towels I purchased last week (one of the side seams came loose in the wash and there was major fraying going on there).  I also returned one of the two bathmats I purchased and bought a different style in it’s stead.

The exchange went smoothly and, except for the one flawed towel, I’m very happy with these towels so far.  I’ll give a more thorough review in another couple of weeks after I’ve had a chance to use them and wash them several times — really put them through the ringer, so to speak 

This afternoon I picked The Daughter up from school and then we hit the up-scale mall before heading home.

~ o o o O o o o ~ 

Origins — $25.31
The Daughter needed to replenish her make-up supply.  I bought a box which contains a plastic covered dish which contains a powered substance referred to as “silk screen(tm) — refining powder makeup.”

The Daughter is, in my eyes at least, flawlessly beautiful with clear china skin and amazingly clear stunningly blue eyes (well, okay everyone comments on the eyes so that’s not just me).  Why she chooses to cover her face with this expensive powder substance, I really don’t understand.  I blame the media, which, believe you me, I’ve done my best to innoculate her against.  What does mom know, right?

In her defense, The Daughter really does use very little makeup and has a pretty good sense of self-worth and positive body image.  We are who we are and I love her despite, and maybe a little because, she’s chosen to reject my rejection of the bill-of-goods sold to women about beauty and femininity.

Aveda — $30.00
Ironically, this purchase was for me.  Years and years ago I bought a bottle travel-sized of Aveda’s Hydrating lotion.  I use it very sparingly but it’s the only lotion that I can stand to apply to my face.  Between the harsh, super-dryness of our winter air and the nightly use of a CPAP mask, every once in a while my face gets super dry.  Or more accurately, my face gets super dry patches (my forehead, the bridge of my nose, my upper lip — all places where my mask rubs against my face).  The Aveda lotion is amazingly light and effective — not heavy or oily like most lotions, nor overly perfumed.

The clerk informed me that the lotion only has a shelf life of two years — I hope that’s not really true because this bottle (the smallest bottle they had) is about twice the size of my old supply and that bottle lasted, um, maybe 8 years?  Maybe I’ll have to make an effort to use it more often.

~ o o o O o o o ~

While at the mall, we also stopped in at Crabtree & Evelyn and The Art of Shaving stores to check out what they had to offer in the way of shaving supplies for men.  The Son has the most adorable fuzzy little caterpillar living over his top lip.  And yesterday, while giving him his annual kick-off-baseball-season short haircut, I also took the opportunity to trim some of the long, scraggly, wiry hairs growing out of his chin.  I’m thinking that shaving is around the corner for him.  Being that he’s a serious creature of habit, I’d like to introduce him to the concepts of wet shaving and double-edge safety razors before he settles on, and gets used to, canned shaving cream and disposable blades.  I didn’t make any purchases because I’m still in the research phase but The Daughter declared The Art of Shaving’s Sandalwood scent the winner in the “clean and manly” sniff test.  We both hated Crabtree & Evelyn’s Sandalwood and found their Normad line pleasantly masculine, we both agree that the scent was too strong.  I’m sure I’ll be reporting some shaving equipment purchases over the next few months.

~ o o o O o o o ~

Kroger — $72.26 (shopped with The Son and The Husband in tow):

• 2 massive packages of Kroger T.P. — $5.99/ea. (saved $1.60/ea.)
• Breyer’s chocolate ice cream — $2.50 (saved $3.19)
• Breyer’s french vanilla ice cream — $2.50 (saved $3.19)
• Breyer’s specialty ice cream — $2.50 (saved $3.19)
• Horizon chocolate milk — $3.19 (saved $0.50)
• Horizon 2% milk — $4.88 (saved $0.41)
• mega box of Q-Tips — $4.39 (saved $0.13)
• Hormel smoked sliced ham — $3.99
• Vlassic pickles — $3.81 (saved $0.18)
• Hillshire Farm sliced turkey — $3.99
• Marantha organic peanut butter — $4.29 (saved $0.70)
• Spice Island medium grind black pepper — $3.68 (saved $1.81)
• Amy’s cheese pizza snacks — $3.29
• Amy’s pizza pocket — $2.29
• Lay’s BBQ chips — $2.50 (saved $0.18)
• Dole orange/peach/mango juice — $3.34 (saved $0.35)
• Orowheat bread — $4.19
• tomatoes — $2.48
• bag credits — ($0.10)