$75 Weekly Shopping and Menu 12-11-17 - No Getting Off This Train

I gotta say, I’m pretty disappointed this week.

If you got my email on Friday, I mentioned something about Kroger peanut butter being on sale for 99 cents. I had planned on buying 10 of the natural kind because I have only one jar left; but when we got there, the natural peanut butter wasn’t on the sale list. It was still $2.29. *Sigh* So needless to say, I didn’t buy any. They were $1.49 a few weeks ago, so I’ll hold out for another sale… hopefully my last jar will be enough until then!

My recipes this week were designed to make a lot of servings, which means we needed less dinners. Since there’s just 3 of us, we always have a lot of leftovers; so this week we’ll have 2 leftover nights. That’s one advantage of having a small family; we save money buying less food!

Other than the peanut butter, there weren’t many good sales so I used the extra money to start buying snacks for our long trip to Florida in a couple weeks. Here’s everything I bought:

Aldi

Sugar: $1.59
Vanilla Greek yogurt: $3.49
Plain Greek yogurt: $3.49
Coffee creamer: $1.89
2 gallons milk: $1.07 each
Cauliflower: $1.99
Bananas: $1.21
Baby carrots: $.59
Broccoli: $1.49
Carrots: $1.29
Butternut squash: $1.49
Celery: $.99
2 bags spinach: $1.49 each
Parmesan cheese: $2.29
Sliced cheddar: $1.79
Deli ham: $2.99
Eggs: $1.49
Jelly: $1.99
Granola: $1.99
Chicken sausage: $2.99
Baking powder: $.99
Farmhouse cheddar cheese: $3.59
Salsa: $1.49
Grape tomatoes: $.99
Hamburger buns: $.83
2 bags chips: $1.69
Pretzels: $.79

Total: $42.22 after a $10 off coupon I received in the mail

Kroger

2 cans great northern beans: $.69 each
Molasses: $3.99
Mountain Dew: Free from a digital coupon
5 cups yogurt: $1.00 each
Gum: $2.19
Sunkist: Free from a digital coupon
Cookie icing: $2.99
Onion: $.65

Total: $16.20

Sam’s Club

Bigelow tea: $8.98
Nature’s Bakery fig bars: $7.88
String cheese: $8.98
Trash bags: $12.28

Total: $14.19 after a gift card from Swagbucks!