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September Monthly Grocery Haul

September 28, 2018 by Stephanie 7 Comments

I spent $200 of our $400 monthly grocery budget in my first-of-the-month grocery haul. Check out the deals I got at Sam's Club, Sprouts, and Grocery Outlet!

Hi friends!  I didn’t die.  And I didn’t forget about you. Thanks for missing me.  I missed you too!

We started out the month with two funerals and company staying at our house.  We loved seeing family and enjoyed catching up with everyone, so I won’t apologize about being behind on blogging.

But clearly I’m very behind.

It’s the last week of September and I’m finally going to show you my beginning-of-the-month grocery haul.  And I haven’t responded to comments in ages, though I read them and they bring smiles to my face (well, except for the ocassional spam ones that somehow sneak past my robust filter– eek!).

I’m back though!  I have lots of great content coming up, so stay tuned while I get into a new groove!

Since we had a houseful of guests, I made my video on-the-go instead of displaying everything on my kitchen table.  It was a kind of fun change.  Let me know what you think.

Okeedokee, let me show you what we got!

Sprouts– $26

Fuji apples $.98/lb x 4.45 lb = $4.36

Golden Delicious apples $.99/lb x 2.29 lb = $2.27

Roma tomatoes $.88/lb x 4.67 lb = $4.11

Corn $.25 x 8 = $2.00

Tangelos $.99/lb x 6.99 lb = $6.85

Celery $.88 x 2 = $1.76

Peaches $.77/lb x 6.29 lb = $4.84

Grocery Outlet $11

Apple sauce (23.5 oz) $.37 x 24 = $8.88

Fruit cups (4 ct) $.27 x 6 = $1.62

Sam’s Club–$167

Honey Nut Cheerios (2- 24 oz boxes) $4.88 x 2 = $9.76

Pork chops (markdown to $1.49/lb) $5.56

Baking potatoes 15 lb $7.49

Goldfish crackers (66 oz) $7.07 x 2 = $14.14

Instant oatmeal (40 ct) $5.98 x 2 = $11.96

Natural peanut butter (2- 40 oz) $6.98 x 4 = $27.92

Shredded cheese (5 lb) $11.52 x 2 = $23.04

Skim milk $1.90 x 5 = $9.50

Whole milk $2.70

Bananas (3 lb) $1.38 x 6 = $8.28

Block cheese (2 lb) $5.86

Baby spinach (1 lb) $3.98 x 2 = $7.96

Sour cream (3 lb) $4.38

Baby spring mix $3.98

Skittles/Starburst Halloween candy (6.5 lb) $11.98

Nestle mix Halloween candy (6 lb) $12.84

For those who are new, we typically spend $400 per month on groceries for our family of 7.  We cook most meals from scratch and rarely eat out (which would usually come from this same budget).  For an idea of the kind of things we normally eat, you can see the pictures I took of our dinners a few months ago.

Since I didn’t go to Winco this month at all, I got bread at Walmart.  My kids keep begging me to bake bread again like I did when we were paying off debt, but I’ve just had too much going on lately so it’s easier to buy it.

Now that September is almost over, I’ll be doing October’s grocery shopping soon!  I’m looking forward to cooler weather… soups… and all things pumpkin!

How about you!?  What fall foods are you looking forward to?

Filed Under: FRUGAL FOOD, Grocery Shoppping

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Comments

  1. Iforonwy says

    October 4, 2018 at 7:19 am

    Soup, soup, soup! Just had a lunch of sweetpotato and tomato soup. The tomatoes were half a tin of left over tomatoes (there are still 2 left for my favourite breakfast – tinned tomatoes on granary toast!) and the sweet potato one that was languishing in the fridge. Add a vegetable stock cube and some Italian herbs (home grown) and viola! My aim this autumn/winter is to make home made stock. Desserts at the moment are home grown apples, rhubarb and plums in pies, crumbles are just baked.

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  2. SC | MissFunctional Money says

    October 2, 2018 at 5:40 am

    I’m excited for allllll the soups. I’m an all-year-long soup girl, but it’s definitely more socially acceptable (and cozier!) to do soups in the winter/fall. This year, I’m making it a goal to branch out from my go-to soups — Chicken Taco, Sweet Potato Chili, and Whatever-Veg-You-Have Soup — and try some new stuff! And, like you, I’m ready for all the pumpkin everything!

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  3. Laura says

    October 1, 2018 at 5:19 pm

    Thanks for posting! My goal for the last quarter of 2018 is to track the expenses better! I love following along with your shopping trips! Glad you’re back!

    Reply
  4. Becca says

    September 30, 2018 at 5:26 pm

    We are finally emerging from winter! All winter long we had a Sunday roast, which was really very nice, and as we were able to get 2-3 meals from the roast, it wasn’t as expensive as I thought it would be. At the moment the kids are on school holidays (they get 2 weeks off between each term, plus 6 weeks in the summer) and we’ve put the kids in charge of meal planning and grocery shopping. The meals are less than inspiring – fries feature heavily! But it’s good for them to get the practice of budgeting and menu planning. We’re leaving for a family vacation in about 3 weeks and I want to leave with a fully empty freezer, as ours has a tendency to turn itself off every now and then – not a big deal when we’re around to catch it, but not a good thing when we won’t be home for two weeks. So I’ll have to take stock of what we have and plan my meals accordingly.

    You must be anticipating a lot of trick or treaters? I thought where you lived was sort of rural so you wouldn’t have very many of them?

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    • Stephanie says

      October 1, 2018 at 1:33 pm

      Way to get the kids involved! Those are great skills to learn. That’s smart to clear out the freezer before you go! I was planning to take inventory of our deep freezer and try to plan some meals around what we’ve had in there for a while. When you’re eating odd things this month, you can think of us on the other side of the globe eating random freezer items too. 🙂

      Ha ha! I don’t think we will ever have trick or treaters actually come to our house! We don’t live in a neighborhood at all. 🙂 The candy is for TRUNK or treating in the church parking lot.

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  5. Sandy ONeill says

    September 28, 2018 at 7:47 am

    Glad to have you back. Sorry your get togethers were for a sad reason.

    Reply
    • Stephanie says

      October 1, 2018 at 1:35 pm

      Thank you Sandy!

      Reply

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