Here are my January 2012 shopping totals. Our budget is $200 per payday which is every 2 weeks.
1st week of January – $153.94
2nd week of January – $39.46
3rd week of January – $167.54
4th week of January – $21.46
5th week of January – $146.08
For the month of January I spent a grand total of $528.48. Since [...]
This week was the beginning of a new pay period and only the last few days of January. I began by stopping at Aldi and I stocked up on a whole lot of items. I can’t even begin to name everything in the picture but I got milk, almond milk, o.j, lots of produce, canned [...]
I hadn’t planned on doing any shopping this week since I nearly reached my budget the first time out this payday. However I didn’t write up a menu plan because I had been ill over the weekend and our week was kind of busy. I did manage to stick to our menu plan categories pretty [...]
During the first payday of the month I managed to just barely stay under budget. The 13th began a new payday giving me $200 for the next 2 weeks.
First I went to Kroger to stock up on a few items and get some meat. I used the rest of my tide coupons, picked up several [...]
During the first week of this payday I spent a total of $153.94 leaving $46.06 in my budget, since I knew I would be starting to do some stocking up I thought I might possibly go over budget.
I did two different transactions at Kroger so I could use more than 4 Tide coupons. There were [...]

