Just last week, I was excited to share that I thought our stockpile was near complete. I was even more excited that I was not even close to the grocery budget for the money. Well since then I have been shopping\u00a0again at Food Lion and have a plan to go to Costco again tomorrow. Sounds crazy doesn’t it, what is even more crazy is that I am planning to move some money from dinning out to cover the Costco trip tomorrow.\u00a0 But let me explain…..<\/p>\n
Food Lion is the only “grocery store” in our area. We also have a Walmart that sells groceries but I really dislike Walmart. I rarely go to Food Lion because of their coupon policy and usually much higher prices when compared to Costco. But these past several weeks have been different. A good example is my trip tonight I spent 85.09 and saved 66.13 or 44%. This is not a huge saving percentage and in the past I would not even post about this trip but if you take a close look at what I bought for that $85 it makes more sense.\u00a0 Chicken leg quarters were on sale for 0.59 a pound in quantities of 10#. This is actually 0.20 cheaper than my stockpile price. I ended up purchasing 40# of chicken. My thought is that I will crockpot cook one bag at a time. This should provide enough meat and chicken stock for at least\u00a04 meals or 1 month so I purchased a 4 month supply tonight. While I was in the store, they have continued there “Store brand sale”, in addition to ketchup and BBQ sauce, they added cat food and salad dressing. I again grabbed several of the condiments as well as 40 cans of cat food, at 0.15 a piece it is cheaper than dry food. I also grabbed more sodas at 0.64, with coupons goldfish and pop tarts also made it into my cart.\u00a0 So this 44% saving trip really is a great deal in real life. <\/p>\n
We will head to Costco tomorrow for milk and other items we are out of just to finish off the month. Matt and I are already talking about several changes to the way we are budgeting. In addition starting next month, I am going to use a envelope system for groceries so that we can “carry” any remaining amounts over for a month when our financial situation changes as we are anticipating in the next 6 months or so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Just last week, I was excited to share that I thought our stockpile was near complete. I was even more excited that I was not even close to the grocery budget for the money. Well since then I have been … Continue reading