{"id":18869,"date":"2018-10-06T11:26:13","date_gmt":"2018-10-06T16:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/?p=18869"},"modified":"2018-10-06T11:26:13","modified_gmt":"2018-10-06T16:26:13","slug":"what-i-spent-this-week-2018-10-05","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2018\/20181006-18869.htm","title":{"rendered":"What I Spent This Week (2018.10.05)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve officially decided what to do about our foster care stipend. I&#8217;m going to take whatever portion I allocated to groceries the previous month and divide it between the weeks of the current month. So, last month, I allocated $83.60 of the foster care stipend to groceries &#8211; which means I get an extra $20.90 per week to spend this month. So October&#8217;s grocery budget is $135.90 per week. <\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Saturday, September 29<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>ALDI had this-season Gala apples for $1.49 for a 3 lb bag &#8211; and I&#8217;ve been pretty bored with store-bought applesauce &#8211; so we made a special trip to buy 30 lbs for applesauce. My plan is to can one pressure-canner load (7 quarts) at a time as long as there are cheap-ish apples available. That way I don&#8217;t have to do any marathon canning sessions (while the house falls to pieces) &#8211; but I should be able to still get some sauce that has actual flavor.<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/photoindex\/2018-09\/IMG_20180929_150127-1.jpg' alt='Apples, apples, apples' class='ngg-singlepic ngg-none' \/><\/p>\n<p>Total cost of apples plus a quart of half and half: $18.03<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Tuesday, October 2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Walmart Grocery Pickup was $58.91<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/photoindex\/2018-10\/20181002_141341.jpg' alt='Walmart 2018\/10\/02' class='ngg-singlepic ngg-none' \/><\/p>\n<p>Do you ever see anything name brand in my grocery pictures? There are three potential reasons:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There is no generic option (Cinnamon Life, now that Walmart stopped making a generic)<\/li>\n<li>Daniel asks me, pretty please, to buy the name brand (Honey Nut Cheerios)<\/li>\n<li>Walmart made a substitution (the Dole Pineapple in this picture)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If Walmart doesn&#8217;t have a particular item in stock for grocery pickup, they&#8217;ll sub in an alternate at no extra cost to you (they&#8217;ll also check with you car-side to make sure their alternate is acceptable to you). Generally, the alternate ends up being the name brand version instead of the cheaper generic I always buy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thursday, October 4<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sam&#8217;s Club didn&#8217;t have an open slot on Tuesday (first time I&#8217;ve ever not gotten my preferred slot!) so I scheduled pickup for Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/photoindex\/2018-10\/IMG_20181004_130106583.jpg' alt='Sam&#039;s Club 2018\/10\/04' class='ngg-singlepic ngg-none' \/><\/p>\n<p>$38.05<\/p>\n<p>That left me $20.91 for ALDI &#8211; which just wasn&#8217;t enough. I spent $26.72<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/photoindex\/2018-10\/IMG_20181004_130906417.jpg' alt='ALDI 2018\/10\/04' class='ngg-singlepic ngg-none' \/><\/p>\n<p>So not a bad week, but not a great one either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve officially decided what to do about our foster care stipend. I&#8217;m going to take whatever portion I allocated to groceries the previous month and divide it between the weeks of the current month. So, last month, I allocated $83.60 of the foster care stipend to groceries &#8211; which means I get an extra $20.90 &#8230; <a title=\"What I Spent This Week (2018.10.05)\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2018\/20181006-18869.htm\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What I Spent This Week (2018.10.05)<\/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\/18869"}],"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=18869"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18921,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18869\/revisions\/18921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}