First Half of the Month Shopping

I am half way through the month and I don't know where it went.  I seem to take the pictures and then not get any farther with posting to share (minus one trip) but here is my fast review of the beginning of the month.

Aldi's $24.70

 I went to Aldi's to get eggs and milk.  We also really needed some butter so on my way to get that, I found the chicken!!!  It was on sale for $1.89 but it was near the date so they put an extra $2 stickers on a few packages so it make it around $1.60 per pound.  Who has gotten prices like that on chicken this year??  Not me so I thought it was too good to be true.  I grabbed two packages but I only had $25 and change to pay for my food.  I added everything up in my head and was praying that $2 off sticker meant what I thought it meant because if not, I knew that I didn't have enough money.  I was super excited when I had enough money but the worst part was that I didn't get the chips that my husband really wanted but my son was so tired that I didn't have enough time to make it to the bank and back because he was sound asleep in the car.

Harris Teeter $6.33

I went to the store to get the tissues with a rain check before my coupons expired.  I saw that they had eggs and ground beef on sale so I couldn't pass them up so I grabbed them too even though this meant that I had to go home instead of running more errands.

Giant  $2.35

I went to Giant while my son was in My Gym class and got a few things that we needed like bread flour, oatmeal and oil.  I used a bunch of sales and coupons.

Harris Teeter $30.11

I went to the store to get the Dixie cups for my son for school and decided to pick up a few other deals while I was there.  It is hard to see but I got four ground beef packages so that was about half of the cost.  I also got Tide because we were on our last one and they had it on sale and with coupon and evic coupon it was $8.19 instead of $15.49.  Gotta love getting it half off!!!  This was way more then I wanted to spend on groceries this early in the month but I got a bunch of snacks for school and food we needed.

HMart $1.70

After my son's first day of school, we went to Rita's to get Italian Ice and this store was next to it.  I went in to look around.  They had a good price on a head of lettuce and green beans.  There were some other very interesting things but my son was done so we headed out. 

Giant $6.35

I decided that I needed to get more bread flour while it was still on sale and I grabbed the big container of oil that was on sale for almost $2 off.  The main thing that I was going to the store to get was the Gerber mixed berries and bananas.  There was a promo if I bought 10, then I would get a $1 off my next purchase....they only had 6!!  Figures but I got my 6 and cleared the shelf.

Giant $2.02

I got a $2 catalina from an ongoing Gerber promo that you get $2 for every $10 you spend.  I guess I reached it on the last order which I went to spend the same day.  I grabbed everything on the shelf again... 6 seems to be the magic number which still didn't give me the $1 catalina.

I had a busy beginning of the month and got a bunch of things but they were almost all on the list.  It was way more then I wanted to spend in the first half of the month but it is still under half of my $160 monthly budget. 

Total OOP $73.56
Total Savings $104.93

We are going to need some more snack foods because we have eaten most everything in the house.  My son finished the cheese its and gold fish.  My husband finished the crumbs of the tortilla chips.  I am working on pulling out all of the boxes and trying to get them to eat the rest of the things in the house even if they aren't the favorites.  Everything else left that was stale was put into the bag to be ground down for chicken tender bread crumbs.  Have you ever had cheese it crumbs on chicken tenders because they are amazing!  I am still working on blending them all up but that is on the list to get done.

We are almost out of milk so there is another trip to the store coming for us soon!!  I am going to have to look over the list and see what else needs to be purchased this month but I think that I have made good progress to get most of the things that we need for the month.  What do you think of the first half of my month?  How did your month go so far?