I don't normally post over the weekend. However, I was thinking through my grocery shopping this week and wanted to write it out (for my benefit more than anyone else's).
As I've mentioned, my main grocery store is WinCo (every other week), and in the odd weeks I make a quick run (around the corner) to Walmart. I have specific foods, supplements, and OTCs that I buy at Walmart. So I wait for the odd week to pick those items up.
This week I needed a couple of supplements that both my husband and I take and some band-aids. So even though I didn't really need any foods, I went anyway and did pick up a couple of food items, too. I'm not sure why, but this was a chocolate-heavy shopping trip.
I bought the mega bag (36 oz) of GV chocolate chips ($9.42) ,a 3.52-oz bar of GV milk chocolate ($1.67), a 3.2-oz bar of GV dark chocolate ($1.67), and a 4-oz bar of GV unsweetened chocolate. ($3.14) The milk and dark chocolate bars are for future s'mores at our house, and the unsweetened chocolate is for making unsweetened chocolate-covered dried fruits or mixing with other chocolates when melting to make a darker chocolate. So a lot of chocolate. In addition, I bought a jar of GV coffee ($6.94), now my preferred coffee. I spent $22.84 at Walmart. I used some of the chocolate already in chocolate-covered raisins (sometimes I've just gotta have a bit of candy) and homemade magic shell.
I also stopped at Town & Country (a small regional chain in the Puget Sound area). They have an awesome natural foods bulk section. As much as I love WinCo's bulk bins, T & C has a few extra foods that WinCo doesn't sell. This time I bought some white whole wheat flour ($2.07) and also a dozen brown eggs ($3.99). I can find eggs for less than $3.99/dozen now, but T & C's brown eggs (and maybe the white ones, I haven't tried them) are better than Walmart's regular eggs. I spent $6.06 here.
My grand total for this week came to $28.94.
This coming week will be another WinCo week. I've been adding items to my list all week. My husband wants to come with me again. So I'll have to work around his work schedule.
Enjoy the rest of your weekend, friends!
Chocolate is one of the essential food groups. :) It's getting so expensive, though. I thought of you recently, when I used cocoa powder to make no-bake cookies. It's a good way to get a chocolate fix for less money.
ReplyDeleteI was thinking about no-bake cookies the other day. I made them all the time when I was a kid. We have enough sweets at our house for now, but I think I will be making them soon.
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