I'm sorry this is late, for those of you who enjoy reading about my grocery spending. April was a difficult month. As a result, I didn't keep track as the month progressed, but instead saved my receipts and am now tallying them. I won't list the individual prices or quantities for everything, but will give you an idea of what I bought and how much I spent in total at each store.
Spent $231.71 for month of April.
What was unusual about April's grocery spending:
- a double birthday celebration
- Easter breakfast and dinner, along with a postponed Easter due to daughter's illness, which meant buying strawberries a second time
- stock-up on soy milk powder, eggs, flour, different meats, instant milk, snack foods for family, and I bought some boxed and canned foods on markdown
- Sometimes I ran into the store just for 1 or 2 items as I happened to be in another business in the same strip mall. Sometimes I was shopping for gardening and home organization supplies in Fred Meyer, so I checked the clearance rack while I was there. This was not a very organized shopping month for me.
- My daughters also stopped into stores for me while they were running their own errands (breaded mushrooms, 15-dozen case of eggs)
- I did a lot of clearance rack shopping. Getting those bargains is a real mood-booster.
I shopped on 8 different days, going to one to three stores on any given day. Like I said, not organized.
April 1. Walmart $21.36 50 lbs flour, bananas
April 6. Swansons (online) $47.00 4 bags of soy milk powder
April 6. Grocery Outlet (salvage store) $9.98 coconut date rolls (Easter), Craisins, quick grits
April 6. Fred Meyer $5.10 asparagus, strawberries (for Easter dinner #1)
April 7. Fred Meyer $10.02 clearance rack: granola bars, cereal, canned vegetables, boxed donuts
April 20. Chefstore (restaurant supply) $39.60 baklava, gyro meat (birthday celebration)
April 20. WinCo $27.18 produce, pita bread, tzatziki (birthday celebration), chicken breasts
April 22. Walmart $6.68 frozen breaded mushrooms (birthday celebration)
April 25. Walmart $1.87 bananas
April 28. Chefstore $29.99 15 dozen eggs
Did I spend more than recent months? Yes, but I was still comfortably within the range that I've determined for us. And I also have to take into consideration that we made 2 extended family meals for special occasions included in this spending. I do hope that May's grocery shopping focuses less on snack and prepared foods and more on basics to begin stocking up for next winter. We'll see how well I do. May is shaping up to be a better month overall for me, so that should help.
