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Fred Meyer $7.71

I am totally kicking myself for not loading the free bottle of Welch’s Juice I highlighted on friday on to my Fred Meyer card {you can only load that weeks freebie coupon on friday!} I was so excited about telling you about it I forgot to load it to myself. Bummer.

Last week I picked up a freebie package of Airhead {gross} thanks to the Friday freebie. Those will be going in Monkey Boy’s stocking this year. I also picked up milk @ $0.99 per half gallon, $0.99 marshmallows for the cranberry salad I’ll be making for Christmas, garlic 3 for $1, and 2 avocados @ $0.88 each.

I decided something last week. I am going to try and finish the year under $1800 for my grocery spending {which works out to be around $150 a month}. Next year I’m really going to try to get back to my penny pinching ways and get our grocery budget back to $100 a month. I think it’s going to be super hard now that the whole extreme couponing craze is over and food prices are rising. But I’m hopeful I can do it if I really buckle down.

Local Produce Stand $2.71

Peppers 2 for $1 and Hot House tomatoes $0.99 a pound.

Fred Meyer $1.12

I asked the HH to pick up a small piece of fresh ginger {I only needed 1 tablespoon} and this is what he came home with. Poor Lucy, she thought the HH bought her a new toy.

Fact: Dogs like frosting and they are really good at photobombing pictures. 

Some of the meals we ate last week:

Waffles. I LOVE making breakfast for dinner and waffles are one of my favorite meals on the planet. Especially with a little homemade jam spread on top.

Chicken pot pie with a mashed potato topping. It lasted 2 nights. 

I was craving a cup of hot cocoa so I whipped up a batch of homemade hot cocoa mix. I’m pretty sure The Girl will polish this off in a week or so when she comes home for winter break.

I also made a batch of Chocolate Chip Brownies. I thought I was being clever when I cut up the brownies, individually wrapped them and then popped them in the freezer so I wouldn’t eat so many of them this time around. Turns out I like frozen brownies. 😉 Who knew?

The worst picture of pot roast, rice and roasted vegetables on the planet.

Homemade chicken and rice soup. 

Handmade soft tacos with homemade tortillas. Seriously. Stop buying tortillas from the grocery store. You can make your own {8 of them} for about $0.25 and they taste sooooo much better.

And if you don’t use all the tortillas at dinnertime, reheat them the next day and make breakfast tacos with eggs, fried potatoes, peppers and avocado.

Did you get a $10 off a $10 JCP coupon in the mail? I did. I can’t decided if I should get the HH another set of socks for Christmas or a scarf for myself.

Decisions, decisions.

How was your week? Did you buy anything spectacular?

~Mavis

Total Spent This Week $11.54

Weeks 1-28 Shopping Exclusively at Costco $1,229.25 {$43.90 a week/$175 a month average}
Weeks 29-49 Shopping wherever the heck I want $509.15
Total Spent Year to Date $1738.40

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Haggen $16.33

I popped by Haggen after visiting the library last week to use the last of my $5 off a $25 purchase coupons. I clipped a few coupons for their sale items {cottage cheese $2.49, yogurt $1,99, Ritz Crackers $1.88, Apple Juice $0.99, Tomato Soup $0.69 and Sweet potato fries $1.99} and made my way to the checkout.

I handed over my $5 off coupon first and then the in ad coupons. I didn’t realize the grocery/coupon ad was for 2 weeks {some of the coupons were for last week and some were for this week} but the checker said it was a common mistake and pushed all the coupons through. Kinda goofy if you ask me. I wish they would just make all the coupons good for two weeks to avoid the confusion but oh well, I’m glad the checker did that so I didn’t have to go back another day.

Fred Meyer $3.98

Rye flour, oats, dried dates and popcorn from the bulk bins.

Albertsons $7.10

Tuna $0.59 per can, day old Rolls $0.99 {was $2.99}, Pasta $0.79 each and a box of Cream of Wheat for FREE. There was an in ad coupon for the Cream of Wheat {$1.69} but the in ad coupon didn’t work for some reason and so the cereal rang up wrong. As I was leaving the store I checked my receipt and noticed the error and went back to get a refund. Albertsons has a policy that if the price rings up wrong… you get the item for free for bringing it to their attention {so they can fix it in the computer system} and that’s how I ended up with a free box of Cream of Wheat.

More Fresh Eggs from Mrs. Hillbilly

I think from here on out I’ll be trading chard for eggs. 😉 Yee-Haw!

Some of the Foods I made this past week

Homemade tortillas are the bomb diggety. Once you make tortillas from scratch, you’ll never go back to store bought again.We enjoyed both beef soft tacos and cheese quesadillas.

Pot roast, sweet potato cups {I’ll post the recipe soon} and garden salad from our garden.

Sunday scramble.

Homemade bread.

I also tried a recipe I found for pumpkin snickerdoodles {I’ll post the recipe tomorrow} and made honey caramel corn, had General Tso’s Chicken with rice and whipped up some spaghetti with homemade pasta sauce.

And last but not least, the HH and I went on a lunch date. I had a buy 1 get 1 burger coupon for Lunchbox Laboratory and let me tell you Bob, they were delicious! We rarely go out to eat so it was a nice treat.
~Mavis
Total Spent This Week on Groceries$27.41

Weeks 1-28 Shopping Exclusively at Costco $1,229.25 {$43.90 a week/$175 a month average}
Weeks 29-41 Shopping wherever the heck I want $370.75
Total Spent Year to Date $1600.00 {$400 over budget for the year}

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