More Grocery Shopping on Friday

4/19 Groceries: Bread and Frozen Vegetables

On Friday, I went to the pharmacy to pick up my medication refill that was ready.  Then, I went next door to the dollar store, just to see what they had that I might want to buy!  Apparently, what I wanted to buy were snacks!

4/19 Snacks!

But, they were such a bargain at $1 each!

Dollar Store Receipt

Then, I went to the grocery store that is also in the same shopping mall.  I wanted to buy bread and more frozen vegetables, as I had finished the loaf of whole wheat bread I had bought earlier, used up the last of the bag of frozen green peas, last night, and had less than half a bag of frozen corn.

The bread cost $1.99 and the frozen vegetables cost $1 each.

But, my primary reason for going to this particular grocery store was to buy these:

This Week's Specials

This store had a special on these brands of canned vegetables, canned cream soups, and pasta, for $.49 each, provided one bought 6 items, mix and match, in a single transaction (or multiples of 6 items).  When canned items and pasta, etc., go on sale like this, that's when I stock up.

Except...I am trying to avoid eating regular pasta, I no longer like the cream soups,  and I already have about 8 cans of assorted vegetables in my cupboard (as part of my earthquake/emergency supplies).  I really didn't need to stock up on these items.

Well, then, why did I buy a total of 42 assorted sale items?

I had $27+ left in my March grocery budget, which I carried forwards to April.  After my grocery shopping on Wednesday, I still had $43 left in my combined March and April grocery budget.  I have plenty of food on hand and it is doubtful that I'll need to spend all $43 of it before the end of the month.  I decided to take $20 from my grocery budget to buy some pasta, canned soup, and canned vegetables to donate to the food bank.  In gratitude, because I have been so abundantly blessed that I have plenty of food in my cupboards and money left in my grocery budget.  I feel blessed that I can do this.

I bought 6 cans each of green beans, green peas, and creamed corn (they didn't have regular corn); 10 packages of pasta, 3 cans of cream of mushroom soup, and 11 cans of cream of chicken soup.  The subtotal for these items came to $20.58.

The Receipt

My total, with the purchase of my bread and frozen vegetables, came to $24.57.  Apparently, I saved $43!

Today, I spent $5 (at the dollar store) and $24.57 = $29.57

Receipt Showing Total

My April grocery budget is $75 + $27.41 carried over from March = $102.41

Spent to date in April = $1.49 + $21.11 + $36.33 + $29.57 +  = $88.50
Amount left in the April grocery budget = $102.41 - $88.50 = $13.91

Today, I feasted on steak, apples, and too many snacks!