{"id":18666,"date":"2018-08-03T16:57:43","date_gmt":"2018-08-03T21:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/?p=18666"},"modified":"2018-08-03T16:57:43","modified_gmt":"2018-08-03T21:57:43","slug":"what-i-spent-this-week-2018-08-03","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2018\/20180803-18666.htm","title":{"rendered":"What I Spent this Week (2018.08.03)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been doing a rather terrible job of keeping my grocery budget under control of late (only in part because we’ve added children to the family since the last time we increased the grocery budget). So, inspired by Kristen’s “What I Spent, What We Ate” feature<\/a>, I’m going to try a little bit of this online accountability thing. <\/p>\n

We’ve upped my grocery budget significantly this year (for our new fiscal year of July to June!), and I’m now at $123 per week<\/p>\n

Tuesday July 31<\/strong>
\nI got grocery pickup from Sam’s Club and Walmart.<\/p>\n

Sam's Club purchases<\/p>\n

$22.58 from Sam’s Club – all grocery.<\/p>\n

Walmart pickup<\/p>\n

$35.71 from Walmart – including Vitamin D for the little ones ($9.33) and a couple of spray bottles ($2.10), bringing the grocery total down to $24.28.<\/p>\n

That leaves me $64.71 for ALDI on Thursday…<\/p>\n

Can I do it?<\/p>\n

Thursday August 2<\/strong><\/p>\n

I kept $64 in mind as I shopped, adding the cost of items (always rounded up) as I added them to my cart. <\/p>\n

Our ALDI haul<\/p>\n

My mental math told me I was buying $57 worth of groceries. The check out total said $56.18<\/p>\n

My mental math wasn't bad<\/p>\n

Not shabby (as far as keeping to the budget AND as far as mental math goes.) <\/p>\n

What was left after lunch<\/p>\n

I hadn’t made and packed a lunch for us for after our ALDI and library trip – so I picked up lunch stuff for us at ALDI. This is what was left after we were done :-)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been doing a rather terrible job of keeping my grocery budget under control of late (only in part because we’ve added children to the family since the last time we increased the grocery budget). So, inspired by Kristen’s “What I Spent, What We Ate” feature, I’m going to try a little bit of this … Read more What I Spent this Week (2018.08.03)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18666"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18666"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18687,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18666\/revisions\/18687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}