I felt like I was at the store every day last week.  On the other hand, baseball has finally come to an end so I have a full set of weekday dinners to plan this coming week vs quick doses of chicken nuggets.

On Monday, I made my monthly trip to Shaw’s.  I spent $62.84 mostly on pizza dough and cheese.  Chicken nuggets were on sale so I picked up one meal’s worth, as well as a bunch of bananas.  I don’t usually get dinosaur shaped chicken, but they were out of the standard ones.

On Tuesday, I spent $7.24 on produce from the farm stand.

My biggest trip of the week was to Wegman’s on Wednesday – $136.94.

I took a few days off.  But, I was back at the farm stand on Saturday for a full load of produce – $38.94.

Finally, I spent $21.54 at Wegman’s on Sunday.  There are two gallons of milk missing from the picture.  This will get us through until Tuesday when I plan to go to Stop & Shop.  Hopefully that will be my only stop this coming week.

That brought my total for the week to $267.50.

So how did we do in July as a whole?  Still high.

July TOTAL: $1,350.03

• Stop & Shop: $178.76
• Wegman’s: $679.16
• BJs: $100.45
• Other: $391.66
  • Local: $264.98
  • Star Market/Shaw’s: $126.68
  • Trader Joe’s: $0
  • Target: $0
  • Other: $0

Well, at least I’m keeping up with one post a week.  So much harder when the kids are all home for the summer!  And, I realized I completely forgot the June totals so they’ll be at the bottom of this post.

I made three stops this week, one at each of the major stores.

On Wednesday, I spent $138.36 at Wegman’s.

There’s items for two meals here plus some extras.  The pork butt, rolls, and coleslaw were for pulled pork on Saturday.  I bought more rolls than necessary, but better to not run out and they can always be eaten separately.  The cod and shrimp (small round container) were for California Fish Stew Wednesday night.

So far this summer we’re eating a lot of eggs, smoothies (ie, yogurt), and cheese slices.  Milk and grape juice are pretty standard.  On the far right is a small bag of cherries – in season, but only three of us will eat them.

On Thursday I spent $100.45 at BJ’s, not bad for my monthly visit.

Unfortunately they had no honey, which was my real reason for going on Thursday.  Otherwise I could have saved this stuff for next week.  But, it was a true stock up with multiple copies of almost everything.

Finally, on Sunday I spent $50.12 at Stop & Shop.  I had to spend $55 before $5 off coupon, so I did pretty well.  They were out of the cheese slices I wanted so I was glad I had gotten some (less preferred variety) at Wegman’s above.  As a result I got an extra egg noodles and extra pack of Gatorade.  Both will be used eventually and they were essentially free since I used them to move up from $48 -> $55.

That brought my total for Week 28 to $288.93.

June was a busy month in so many ways – school ending, sports transitioning, and MANY grocery stops.

June TOTAL: $1,311.89

• Stop & Shop: $184.13
• Wegman’s: $647.05
• BJs: $337.15
• Other: $143.56
  • Local: $53.54
  • Star Market/Shaw’s: $61.24
  • Trader Joe’s: $0
  • Target: $28.78
  • Other: $0

Clearly the many stops and the multiple BBQs showed!

I was in and out to a lot of grocery stores this week.  Nothing huge, but catching up on some places I don’t go often and hitting the same store on two sale cycles adds up.

On Thursday, I spent $56.57 at Stop & Shop.  We were away a few days over the fourth so some restocking was needed and I wanted to get some items on this sale cycle (they’re Friday – Thursday) so I squeezed this in after we got back Thursday afternoon.  As you can see, I had timed running out of milk well with our trip!

Then on Friday, I made a relatively small trip to Wegman’s.  I didn’t strictly need to go on Friday.  But, I was going to need to go soon and we were trapped inside all day by thunderstorms and heavy rain.  We have a garage and Wegman’s has a parking garage so we spent $53.78, got out of the house, and stayed dry.  I had a $5 off coupon for this specific type of cheese, so that part cost $0.55 (close as I could get to $5).

The clouds broke briefly while we were out so I quickly ran in to Shaw’s for oatmeal and pizza supplies ($63.84).

Then on Saturday, I spent $29.65 at Stop & Shop where I grabbed two fruit salads for an evening BBQ that didn’t make the picture.

Finally, on Sunday I spent $17.37 at the farm stand on corn, local green beans, and cherries.

That brought by grand total for the week to a reasonable $221.21.

Apologies for the hiatus; May just got the better of me!  Hopefully I’ll get back on track this week and you can find out just ridiculously many baseball games we’ve been going to over the past few weeks, along with soccer, school, and everything else.

I did get to the grocery store (and take pictures).  Meals were fairly boring – lots of chicken nuggets, eggs, hot dogs, homemade pizza, etc.  This is always a month to just get through, not a month of gourmet eating.

I made a lot of stops the first week, though that included some very small dollar ones.

The biggest stop of the week was at BJ’s on Wednesday.  I spent $92.32 on mostly churn items – milk, bread, and chicken nuggets – plus a few items that were on sale.

I spent $84.24 at Wegman’s on Friday.

I also stopped by the farm stand on Friday, spending $14.92.

I then spent $52.95 at Stop & Shop on Saturday.  And, feeling somewhat disjointed, I ran into Stop & Shop again on Sunday for fish (which I failed to take a picture of) for another $5.99.

That brought Week 23 to $250.42, which is well within goal considering that it included a BJ’s stop.

Week 24 brought fewer stops.  On Wednesday, I spent $28.78 at Target on juice.  I didn’t take a picture.

On Thursday, I made the first of two larger trips to Wegman’s, spending $107.43.

On Sunday, I had to go to Wegman’s again.  Our oldest has decided he really likes smoothies and since it had been a trial I hadn’t gotten that much quantity.  Notice I have now stocked up (though I’m not sure it will last the week)!  This round was $90.89.

That brought the total for Week 24 to $227.10.  This is a little higher than I would like, but hopefully the month will balance out.

As I warned before the month started, May is busy around here.  I’m trying my best to stay in touch here, but obviously less than usual.  Things really start to wind down after this week so soon I should be more or less back!

May TOTAL: $1,196.75

• Stop & Shop: $57.30
• Wegman’s: $503.01
• BJs: $286.79
• Other: $349.65
  • Local: $155.53
  • Star Market/Shaw’s: $124.69
  • Trader Joe’s: $0
  • Target: $69.43
  • Other: $0

This was definitely not a low month.  Two trips to BJ’s and a Wegman’s total that almost equaled everything from April pushed it significantly higher.  But, its not horribly out of line and was bound to happen with such low months so far this year.

I made three grocery stops this past week, only the first of which is included in the May numbers above.

On Thursday, I spent $71.83 at Shaw’s for oatmeal and pizza supplies.  Not the nicest picture, I know!

Then on Friday I spent $23.91 at Stop & Shop.  Somehow I failed to get a picture, but there were ONLY two milks, some cheese, hot dog supplies, mushrooms, and spinach.

Finally, on Monday I spent $106.89 on a big produce and dairy restock at Wegman’s.

Food continues to be quick and not very interesting – chicken nuggets, hot dogs, homemade pizza, etc.  I didn’t note every day.

I failed to write down what we ate last week.  I’m sure there were chicken nuggets and pancakes and pizza.  I know we had chili on Sunday night.  Beyond that its a bit of a blur, which is also part of why this is the first post in eight days!

But, I did go to the grocery store.  I largely took pictures.  And I have the receipts to remind me of where I went when.

I had a small gift card to a local craft/gift store so on Monday I spent $10.80 (out of pocket, after gift card) there on some fancy cocoa and jam.  I would have been happy to buy earrings or pottery or any number of other things, but nothing really jumped out and fancy food is always nice.

I then spent $176.80 at BJ’s on Wednesday.  There is obviously some restocking here, but I also had a reasonable number of coupons.

On Friday I spent $115.62 at Wegman’s.  My primary purpose was to buy ground beef and a jalapeno for the chili, but I hoped to get enough shopping done to not have to go there again soon. (You’ll see Stop & Shop in a moment because I needed a few things Wegman’s does not carry.)  We ate a lot of eggs over the holiday weekend.

Finally, on Sunday I made a small trip to Stop & Shop.  The boys wanted sausages with their eggs Monday morning.  I would normally get these at BJ’s, but that’s rather far away.  So, I made a short trip and also picked up the hot dogs they had requested and a couple of other items I can only get at Stop & Shop.  This total was $23.43.

That brought my total for the week to $326.65, not bad for a week with a BJ’s trip.