Normally I love grocery shopping. Walking down each aisle, seeing what's on sale, seeing what other people are buying, giggling at the college students trying to piece together a meal, it's great. Yesterday was a whole different experience. Let me start off by saying that I'm a fairly decent shopper and cook. I don't like to buy processed foods, and enjoy trying to eat different foods. I've been on a budget before, so I figured shopping with a hard number would be easy. How wrong I was.
It started off poorly. I couldn't find my list! The list that I had thought about of a couple days. The list that had the bulk of our food of the month. Bad omens were afoot. Listless I went, and started the usual wander. Things actually weren't too bad. I paid attention to prices, and brought things that could be used in several meals. Then came the meat department. Quick side note; I didn't portion our money by week. I had 360 dollars and was going to use the bulk of it today. Ok, so the meat department. I wanted ground turkey, burger, chicken, and pork. No chance in hell. They didn't have ground turkey, and ground burger was nearly 4 dollars a pound for the crappy stuff. So chicken and pork it is, and fortunately the prices were reasonable. I brought what I hope is a months' worth of meat and carried on.
I was nearly done, the cart was getting full, and the I had a panic! "Oh my God, I have no idea how much I'm going to spend today! What if I go over? What will I put back, I need everything!" Suddenly an activity that brings so much pleasure was a chore, and the checkstand was a mortal enemy. The cupboards at home had nothing so I persevered. I had an entire belt full of groceries, mainly consisting of meat proteins, canned goods, and staples;like Bisquick, eggs, and some veggies and frozen fruits. I would build this up to be super climatic, and that the checker rang me up to a total in which I would have to take a second mortgage on my home, but it was nothing like that. We chatted pleasantly about the screaming child that had just left, and how nice it was outside. The total bill wasn't bad, very doable in fact. I spent 202.58! I've spent way more than that without even trying, so I felt I was doing pretty well.
Some things I will have to restock, like dairy, and fresh fruits and veggies, but overall not too bad. I t was alarming to me how stressful it was though. I was EXHAUSTED when I got home! So there we go, major shopping done, mission accomplished!
Other than my shopping and worry things were fairly normal for us on Wednesday, though all three of us were absolutely starving before each meal, We couldn't get dinner in us fast enough, and all went back for seconds. We had friends over, but I think I'll write about that a bit later since this is God awful long already.
So we ate:
Breakfast: Sally and Josh, bowl of Cheerios, banana, coffee Katherine, Cream of Wheat, banana, coffee.
Lunch: Peanut butter and Jelly, carrots, goldfish. I didn't have goldfish I had string cheese
Dinner: Turkey Nachos with the fixings(I already had the turkey, it was deducted from the budget)
We all thought the nachos were the greatest thing known to mankind and will be made again for sure!
There you have it! A long winded description of my day and now we are on to day two!
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