Bringing us back up to speed.  This will cover the numbers for August as well as all the pictures.  Starting in September I’ll include the individual trip numbers with the pictures, as well as a total at the end.

August TOTAL: $703.53

• Stop & Shop: $196.82
• Wegman’s: $299.75
• BJs: $0
• Other: $206.96
  • Local: $99.85
  • Star Market: $107.11
  • Trader Joe’s: $0
  • Target: $0
  • Other: $0

Aah, back to better numbers.  Now, we were going for a number of days so we ate out vs grocery shopping.  I’m sure that didn’t work in our favor overall.  I also didn’t go to BJ’s so a trip there is in my future (actually already occurred on Sept 2, but that’s for another post).  I did shift a lot of my shopping back to Stop & Shop this month.

I’ve been wondering for a while whether shopping at Wegman’s is just more expensive.  When they first arrived two years ago I did price comparisons and they were mostly better.  But, I often buy the family packs there which is a larger initial outlay.  We do eat all of it, eventually, so it should have eventually evened out.  I’m planning to do another price book update later this fall now that the other stores have adjusted to their existence.  I also want to try to update it to include not just the regular prices of items, but the lowest prices some common items reach during a 6-8 week sale cycle.  Some items will go even lower once or twice a year, but I’ve generally identified those already.

And now, on to the pictures.

On August 1, I went to the farmer’s market.  After no local peaches last year because of a late spring cold spell, it was fantastic to have them back.

On August 3, I made my first of many trips to Stop & Shop.  The Tic Tacs were free and everything else was on sale.  I put the Tic Tacs in the car for the Philadelphia road trip, though we didn’t go through all of them and still have some left.  Non-minty Tic Tacs are not my favorite, but the flavors were limited.

After our trip to Philadelphia, my next stops were at the farm stand (top) and Wegman’s (bottom) on August 12.  We had three birthdays to celebrate, hence three cake mixes.  Plus one tub of frosting that was split over two of them.

On August 14, I went to the farm stand again.  We’ve really been enjoying the corn on the cob this year.  Plus, more peaches.

On August 17, I made a small trip to Stop & Shop.  There was a container of blueberries too, but they disappeared before the picture got taken.

There was another hiatus before trips to Wegman’s and the farm stand on August 26.

I made my once a month trip to Shaw’s on August 28.

And then I went to Stop & Shop for the final time in August on the 29th.  You can probably guess from the pictures that most of these were sale items with quantity purchase requirements.

So apparently I missed almost the entire month of grocery updates.  Since we did some traveling (and therefore had fewer grocery runs than usual), I’ll just cover them with the August numbers next week.

My last update was on July 31, and I didn’t do any grocery shopping that day so there won’t be any carry-over to the next post!

July TOTAL: $1,293.70

• Stop & Shop: $53.70
• Wegman’s: $751.56
• BJs: $241.62
• Other: $246.82
  • Local: $61.79
  • Star Market: $146.14
  • Trader Joe’s: $0
  • Target: $38.89
  • Other: $0

Still higher than I would like.  I’m going to try some new strategies come September.  One of them will be to include the cost info with the weekly photos.

Here’s a photo of some of the yummy BBQ we’ve had this summer.

Spendy week this week with big trips to both BJs and Wegman’s.  I also stopped at the farmer’s market and Shaw’s.

BJs was first, on Monday.

While I was over that way already, I stopped at Target.  It’s the only place I can get green Gatorade and they have the best juice prices.

Then, on Tuesday, I went to Shaw’s for pizza supplies and oatmeal.

On the same day, I went to the farmer’s market.  I was disappointed nobody had spinach.

Finally, on Saturday, I went to Wegman’s for our weekend BBQ supplies (and some basic groceries).

As discussed before, I’m a bit behind.  So, I’m going to post the last two weeks of groceries today especially because this week was pretty light.

On Monday, I went to Stop & Shop.  This was almost exclusively for drinks.  I also got some cherries and chicken nuggets on sale.

Then, on Sunday, I made a small trip to Wegman’s.  I would have gotten the bulk bag of potatoes, but they were out so I settled for a few loose ones.

Not much interesting in the meals department, but I did go to the grocery store.

On Monday I stopped at Star Market for roughly 10 each of pizza dough, pizza cheese, and oatmeal.  This should last us a few weeks.

Then, on Thursday I went to Wegman’s for a regular weekly shop.

Yesterday I went back to Wegman’s to purchase items for grilling that night, plus a few things we were low on.  We had hot dogs and sausages for dinner.

I also stopped at the farm stand.  Blueberries and cucumbers are in season locally now.  This farm stand also brings in produce from other areas; hence the broccoli.

Since I didn’t add to our milk supply the second time I went to Wegman’s, I’ll be needing to do that early this week.  I plan to go to Stop & Shop this week to get some items we prefer from there and anything that might be on sale.