We finally have a small week, both for number of stops and dollars.

On Monday, I picked up a dozen bagels and two tubs of cream cheese for $14.69.

Wednesday was the big shop of the week.  I spent $96.70 at Stop & Shop.

Finally, I picked up our Farmer’s to You box for $50.95 on Thursday.

That brought the total for the week to $162.34.  That should balance out this month a bit.

This was a big week, though mostly because I went to BJ’s for the first time since July.

My first stop was Stop & Shop on Tuesday where I spent $59.69.  Apologies for the dark picture.  The M&M item in the bottom center was my free item of the week, a single serve cake mix.  We’ll see how that is.

I picked up our Farmer’s to You box on Thursday for $41.95.

Friday was the big trip to BJ’s – $330.03!  Actually, after so much time off that’s not terrible, just a bit higher than it would usually be.

Lastly, I made two stops I Saturday.  I went to the farm stand for a few local items (if I’d realized I’d be at the grocery store later I would have purchased the lemons there).  They cost $33.77.

Finally, we had a request for sausages with our hot dogs so I went to Wegman’s.  That came to $82.45 but should carry us through the first half of the week.

That brought the weekly total to a very large $547.89.

The restocking continued.  On the other hand, we were gone for some of Labor Day weekend and went to a BBQ for yet another meal.

Monday I bought peaches and an Athena melon at the farm stand.  I’m not usually a huge fan of cantaloupe, but this variety is quite good so I seek it out for the few weeks its available.  Same for local peaches.  Apparently I forgot to take a picture.  But, I spent $6.59.

On Tuesday, I went to Shaw’s primarily for pizza dough.  I spent a total of $56.32.

I spent $30.90 at Target on Wednesday for juice and craisins.  Again, I failed to take a picture of this.

I picked up our Farmer’s to You box on Thursday at $40.80.

Then I took a few days off from shopping before making two stops on Sunday.  I spent $15.74 at the farm stand and $80.55 at Stop & Shop.  (There were actually four boxes of lemonade, but one didn’t make it to the picture.)

That brought my total for the week to $230.90.  This will get split between August and September when those numbers get calculated.

Only one significant stop this week.  We were mostly on vacation and I count all groceries purchased on vacation towards the vacation budget.

Because we had been on vacation and because its turnover season to winter/school groceries, there was a fair amount of restocking to do.  This is only the start.

First thing when we got back, we purchased two gallons of milk for $11.96.  That is clearly not cost effective, but quick and close were the priority.

My one and only trip was to Wegman’s where I spent $163.71.

I also harvest the garden first thing.  I had done this right before we left, but of course it was still going to grow.  I had put the water on a timer so I didn’t have to worry about rain.

That’s 25 cucumbers!  And, three of them are three pounds – whoppers!  I had made as many pickles as I could before we left.  I also thought the green beans were done when we left, but they revived in our absence.  I’m still picking a couple of pounds per week.  I’ll get back to the garden updates the end of this week.