Weekly Grocery Shopping Trip 1/11-1/17/09

My budget is $75 for the week. See my inspiration for this challenge at the Grocery Cart Challenge . See my menu plan for the week here Menu Plan . Above is a picture of my grocery shopping trip today minus 2 bags of chips (counted in below but forgotten in the picture). This weeks total spent is $62.14. I was quite a bit under last week. So far for the month my budget has been $150 and I have spent $115.98 so $34.02 under budget. I will watch for possible sales to stock up and fill the pantry with any extra in the budget.

This week I did use $10 of my weekly budget to add to the pantry. Another $10 went to some extra treats for the kids and I (note to self: do not shop with PMS).

This weeks trip to Cost Cutter:

Ice cream $2

4 boxes mac & cheese $2 (for pantry)

2 shoe string french fries $2.30 (1 for this weeks menu the other extra for freezer)

2 green leaf lettuce $1.16

4 budding lunch meat $2

1 bologna $1.50

1 ham lunch meat $3.50

2# block mild cheddar cheese $4.99

1# butter $3.50

1 margarine $1.69

2 ltr root beer $1 (for family game night)

2 gallons milk $5.78

2 bags chips $4

10 cans veggies (beans/peas) $4 (stock up for pantry)

1 head garlic .50

local Sunday paper 1.50

15# flour $7 (will add to pantry stock)

2.35 # bananas $1.38

1 dozen eggs 2.19

1 case Dr Pepper $7.99

1.51 # apples $2.40

Total- $62.14

In review- discovered I was overcharged for the apples (should have been .57 they were on sale) however, I picked up 4 cans of spaghetti sauce for $1 each. They were on sale 10/$10 with coupon. He scanned the coupon and gave me $1 off but did not charge me for the 4 spaghetti sauce. Will mention that next week when I go in (they had brand new registers/system this weekend).

Kids lunches will be - $4 so my total for the week is $66.14