$75 to start and $66.91 left to go!

So I went to the grocery store and purchased my food for the week. Luckily, I still have a lot of fresh fruit and veggies from last week so I don't need to buy a lot of those. Boy do they add up quickly!

I purchased the following: one dozen eggs, a package of radishes, a bunch of fresh broccoli, a package of rolls, a container of blue cheese, a small bunch of grapes, and a gallon of vinegar. Last week I earned a $4 off your next order Catalina coupon so my OOP was $8.09. A great start!

With a hubby who loves dry cereal and a toddler who downs milk, I needed to buy two gallons of milk for the week. One whole milk and one 2%, realizing that it would cost me another $6 I tried to come up with a cheaper alternative. Then I remembered that drug stores now carry milk AND that I had some Extra Bucks. Yes.

I needed to go to CVS anyway because they have the Electrasol Tabs on sale this week for $3.99 and there was a $4 coupon in the paper.

So I went to CVS and purchased two gallons of milk and the Dishwasher tabs. I used one $5 ECB and one $2 ECB and the coupon, final OOP $0.0! Yes!

Dinner tonite will be Wachai Ferry's Cashew Chicken with steamed broccoli and baby corn. Last week I bought the chicken and used the Fresh Tyson Chicken $1 off coupon. I purchased the baby corn and had a coupon for it via Kroger's coupon mailing. The Wachai Ferry is from my stockpile purchased months ago with a $1.50 off coupon. Total cost for dinner: $7.78. Grocery outlay for the week, $1.50 for the broccoli.

All You Grocery Challenge

I've started the ALL YOU Grocery Challenge yesterday. According to the rules, I can only spend $25 per person per week on groceries. This will be a little less than my usual spending habits. I usually spend between $75-100 per week in groceries and may go out to eat once for about $30 (on average). I think that I will be able to adjust because of my stockpile, which I can use to create meals.

The biggest speed bump for this week is that the hubby and I will be going to a MLB game on Sunday. This will be an all day event, leaving the house in the am and not returning until after dinner. I have spent the whole day trying to figure out how much money I will need for two meals. (one at the ball park and one in a restaurant). We are not taking the toddler, so I won't have a diaper bag to stuff food into!

We will have fish, a salad, and homemade cornbread for dinner.