So a little follow up on my post from the other day about grocery shopping...
My sweet mother was kind enough to stay with my girls at ballet on Tuesday so that I could go shopping. Have I mentioned lately how much I love her! What a gift...grocery shopping alone! Anyways...I went to sams and only spent $42.50...I was hoping to spend less than $50 so this was a success. Then to HEB....my grocery budget for the first half of the month is $150. I am not sure if this is a realistic budget for a family of 4 for 15 days, but I can always adjust it if I need to. So the goal at heb was to spend $100 or less...since I spent less at sams I had some extra cushion at heb. Or so I thought. However, many of the items were $0.50-$1.00 more than I expected. Even though some of the items I did get for cheaper than I expected on sale it didnt quite balance out. I went over the budget but not by a lot. My gial was $150... I spent $160.04.
I think its not bad considering its my first week budgeting groceries. Also, my budget fot the month is $300 so if I can keep my groceries to $140 for the second half if the month then ivwill still be on budget for the month. Silver lining!
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