Shopping - Week 2-4

 Shopping this month, outside of the big trip as mostly been bananas, milk, some fruits and lettuce and tomatoes, and eggs lots of eggs. We did have a bit of illness so not shopping was easy, but we did have some family that doesn't live at home bring us some things we needed.

I will need to do a big shopping trip again in the next week or two, but have enjoyed just stopping at the store for just the little bit we really need.

Walmart- 27.11 ( 2.57) - eggs, milk, bananas, onions, turkey, apples

Walmart- 13.76 ( 1.34) - Tomatoes, tea, cookies, torilla

Walmart- I don't have the receipt, but it was milk, bread, eggs, bananas . so lets say 20 dollars.

475.07 for the month plus 45.02 in sales tax- so 120.09 over budget.

Time for another month and a hope that I can stay on budget.

Price Book- Week One

 I normally keep a paper price book, and I will also do that but I wanted to also use my blog to help keep track of prices for items like milk, bread, meat to see how prices go up and down during the year.

Week 1

 ALDI= A

Walmart= W

Sam's Club- S

Item	Store	Week 1
Bread	A	0.79
	W	0.89
Milk 2% Gallon	S	3.22
	W	2.98
Eggs 18ct	W	2.2
Ground Beef 90%	S	3.44lb
Chicken Tender Fr	S	2.79 lb
Moz Cheese	S	2.51 lb
Canned Chicken	S	1.39 8 for 10.98

Shopping 2022- week 1

One of the things that surprised us when we moved to Kansas from NY seven years ago was that in Kansas you pay taxes on food. So this year along with keeping track on how much we spend on food, I am also going to track how much tax we pay on groceries over the course of the year. 

I am considering the shopping I did on 12/30/2020 as part of this year's food budget since I would have done this big shop on 1/1. Except we were getting a winter storm and I would much rather shop on a 40 degree day then a 0 degree day. 

This time around the big budget items were ground beef, chicken, and canned chicken as I had been working our way through the freezers for the last 2 month trying to use up what we had. 

I am trying to keep to the actual food budget this year 440 a month ( 40 is for taxes) , so I will be bringing back using a price book. A price book is a way of keeping track of what you pay for food over the course of time, so you know when you are getting a good price and should stock up. Most stores run sales on items like meat and cheese every 6 to 8 weeks. 

This week I went to Sam's Club, Aldi's, 88 International ( one of our local international stores) and Hy-Vee. The hardest item to find this time around was cabbage of all things, finally found some at Hy-Vee and they only had 4 heads of the organic kind. 

The special request items for this shopping trip were ice cream and spaghettios, and I was able to get both of these items.

I spent : Alidi's 104.71 ( 8.73)

              Sam's Club 237.12 ( 19.78)

              Hy-Vee 13.80 ( 1.20)

              International Market 19.80 ( 1.81) 

Total - 375.43 ( 31.52)

I did a second shop this week to get Milk, Bread, Eggs, Banana's and soda and more ice cream for family game night. 

                Walmart : 38.77 (3.48)

Weekly Total- 414.20 ( 35)  

As of today I have already spent the money budgeted for the whole month of January for food. I will likely have at least one more big shop this month. So I am just going to hope that it balances out by the end of the year. But then I haven't actually spent any of 2022 food budget yet, as the funds for January have yet to be deposited into my grocery account. I used Decembers food budget for the shopping listed above.