Friday is payday. So Friday evening, I went grocery shopping. I pulled my $60 out of my bank account ($20 each for gas, food and entertainment) and headed to Harris Teeter – no list or any coupons in hand.
All of this cost me $20.83, which I was impressed that I got so close to my budget, I even got ice cream to spoil myself (yes, that could have bought me more actual food, but I tend to eat ice cream as an entire meal anyway). Savings: $2.51 (I think, I misplaced my receipt) . I tried to buy items that were only on sale, but I didn’t do that well. I feel that I seriously need to do some coupon shopping and browse through the sale paper before I go shopping this Friday.
For supper that night, I used some of the meatballs (the rest will be later cooked in the crock-pot with BBQ sauce), leftover Ragu spaghetti sauce, spaghetti noodles that I found in the back of my cabinet, and leftover rolls from Easter that were starting to stale (under the broiler with some butter and I would never have guessed). This corresponded to leftovers on Sunday as well.
Saturday, I got up and went to the Farmer’s Market for the first time this year. I forgot my camera at home, which is such a shame, but I think I will try to head out there at least twice a month, so expect more pictures than one from a grainy camera phone. If I hadn’t had bread at home, I think I would have purchased mine from there (though I want to try to make bread sometime soon). Here is all of what I got and the pricing breakdown:
$2.50 – Bunch of Asparagus
$0.75 – 3 Turnips (I wanted to cook something that I hadn’t cooked before)
$4.00 – Pint of strawberries
$5.63 – Locally raised pork chops (from Wells Pork and Beef in Burgaw, NC)
With what was left over, I purchased a cupcake and a soda when I went downtown with my roommate later that day (after the NCSU Red/White Game). So now, I have food to last me the week, no entertainment/eating money, but money for gas. I moved my rent money to my savings account and will pay credit card money today.
It was slightly disappointing to me, when I got gas this morning, that at $2.79 a gallon, $20 barely gave me half a tank of gas! Hopefully that is enough to last the week!
I decided to go ahead and make some of the dishes for the Superbowl today while I had the time. Both the magic cookie bars and the shrimp dip would taste even better after letting them sit.
The magic cookie bars are from a box mix, the Eagle Brand one to be exact. I’ve been eyeballing it for years, but finally had a reason to snatch it up. Even though I’m not that much of a butterscotch fan, these are some of the best things I have ever put my mouth on.
Then I fixed shrimp dip, which is my absolute favorite party good. It’s not fattening at all, and even more so this time because I picked up reduced fat cream cheese.
So what all is on our menu?
- Shrimp Dip w/ Wheat Thin (my special request)
- Magic Cookie Bars
- Oreos
- Beer (not sure what kind, the boyfriend is in charge of that)
- Pigs in a blanket
- Velveeta, rotel & hamburger dip with chips (the boy’s request)
