Wednesday, October 31, 2018

November 2018 Monthly Spending

Here is where I will keep track of all we spend during the month of November. Our monthly budget looks like this: $300 for groceries, $20 for household, $20 for newspapers and couponing deals and $30 for animal food.  Let's see how we do this month :)

10/27/2018
$4.06- Dollar Tree
$5.68- Target
$19.54- Sam's Club
$20.86- Walmart
$44.40- Aldi

10/31/2018
$21.64- Walmart
$50.82- Aldi

11/07/2018
$6.39- Publix
$11.95- Sam's Club
$17.49- Walmart
$42.87- Aldi

11/14/2018
$7.43- Sam's Club
$17.30- Walmart
$66.56- Aldi

$310.26 out of $300 for groceries
$21.53 out of $20 for household
$8.00 out of $20 for newspapers and couponing deals
$5.18 out of $30 for Pets


Our Shopping Trip~ 10/27/2018

Since we were gone for a week, I knew that we needed to go grocery shopping when we got back.  We will also be grocery shopping this evening for next weeks menu plan :)

Here is what we bought at the store to last for this week:

Target
$3.99- Almond Milk Creamer
$1.69- Silk Chocolate yogurt
$5.68- Total

Dollar Tree
$1.00- Cooking Spray
$2.00- Gnocchi X2
$1.00- Paper Towels
$4.06- Total

Sam's Club
$9.98- Dishwasher tabs
$3.98- Cilantro Lime chicken seasoning
$4.98- Cucumbers
$19.54- Total

Walmart
$2.00- Broccoli X2
$2.78- Diary Free Meat Free Pizza Burrito~ Total Splurge for me :)
$4.88- Cat Food
$1.78- Tortillas
$1.15- Bananas
$1.49- Apples
$6.48- Chicken
$20.86- Total

Aldi
$1.19- Spinach
$2.29- Strawberries
$1.86- Grapes
$3.98- Mozz Cheese X2
$3.96- Frozen Veggies
$2.78- Lettuce X2
$3.98- Turkey X2
$2.58- Honey Oats Cereal X2
$1.69- Flour
$1.59- Tortillas
$4.58- Almond Milk X2
$1.89- Canola Oil
$1.89- Kettle Chips
$2.19- Pepperoni
$1.49- Italian Dressing
$1.49- Caesar Dressing
$3.19- Peanut Butter
$1.78- Croutons X2
$44.40- Total

This trip will be included in our November Spending Post.  Our November Monthly Spending Post is where we document what we spend for the month.

Monday, October 29, 2018

Our Menu Plan for the week of 10/29/2018

How was your weekend?  I am happy to be home.  We had a fantastic time but I am glad to be back in my own bed :)  Getting back to our normal.

Here is our menu plan for this week:

Breakfast
Choice of Muffins, Fruit, Oatmeal, waffles, pancakes or bagels

Lunch
Egg Avocado salad and fruit for me
Sandwich with carrots and fruit or leftovers

Dinner
Baked Chicken, potatoes, peas and salad
Tacos with carrots and salad
Gnocchi Bolognese with peas and salad 
Baked Pasta with peas and salad
Breakfast for Dinner- French Toast, Scrambled Eggs and Fruit
Homemade Pizza, salad and Movie night
Leftover Pasta, peas and salad

Snacks and Desserts
Apples
Grapes
Bananas
Strawberries
Carrots
Popcorn
Pretzels
Tortilla Chips with salsa
Chocolate PB Nice Cream
Rice Cakes with PB
Celery with PB and raisin
Chia Pudding

Friday, October 19, 2018

Walgreens deals for the week of 10/21/2018

Things to keep in mind when shopping at Walgreens:
1) You must have as many items as manufacture's coupon
2) Register Rewards (RR) are considered manufacture's coupons
3) You are allowed 1 manufacture's coupon and 1 store coupon per item
4) When redeeming a Register Rewards against the same offer will not receive another RR


Walgreens has a program called Balance Rewards. You earn points you can later redeem. Click here to read more about this program.

Tide or Downy- $4.99
$2 Walgreens Clip to Card MFR cpn
$2 Tide cpn- 09/30 P&G
$0.50 Downy cpn- 09/30 P&G

Mentos Velcro pack gum- $0.99 and get $0.99 RR

Gain- $4.99
$2 Gain Walgreens Clip to Card MFR cpn
$2 Gain cpn- 10/14 RMN

Loreal Elvive- $8/2
$2/2 Loreal Elvive Walgreens Monthly Savings book cpn
$3/2 Loreal Elvive cpn- 10/21 RMN

Fructis- $7/2
$1 Fructis Walgreens Monthly Savings book cpn
$3/2 Fructis cpn- 10/21 RMN

Garnier Whole Blends- $7/2
$2 Garnier Whole Blends cpn- 10/21 RMN

Loreal Excellence, Preference or Age Perfect- $16/2
$2 Loreal hair color Walgreens Monthly Savings book cpn

$6/2 Loreal Preference, Excellence or Age Perfect cpn- 10/21 RMN
$2 Loreal Preference, Excellence or Age Perfect cpn- 10/21 RMN
$5/2 Loreal Preference, Excellence, Age Perfect or Feria cpn- 09/30 RMN
$2 Loreal Preference, Excellence, Age Perfect or Feria cpn- 09/30 RMN


Garnier Nutrisse- $6.99
$2 Garnier Nutrisse cpn- 10/21 RMN
$2 Garnier Nutrisse cpn- 09/30 RMN


Persil- $4.99
$2 Persil cpn- 10/21 RMN