Quick Mid-week Grocery Haul

Happy Saturday!

I have a couple pictures from when I stopped at Walmart earlier this week to get some groceries and a few odds & ends we needed. My grocery schedule has been a little off lately and I haven't been going every Thursday like I used to. This week we had mostly everything we needed for dinners but ran out of a few things for lunch. We needed a few toiletries and some party decorations for a craft project at work. I am not a fan of these small in between shopping trips so I'm determined to get back on regular shopping schedule!

The food...

Bread: Harper's Homemade Bran Bread

Milk: Great Value 1% Milk

Lunch Meat: Oscar Mayer DeliFresh Cracked Black Pepper Turkey Breast

Sliced Cheese: Kraft American Singles && Sargento Ultra Thin Cheddar-Jack

Shredded Cheese: 4 Cheese Mexican

Extras...

Party Decorations: 2 blue/1 white paper tissue balls (which I'm using to make 3D paper fish)

12 pk aqua colored balloons (to make some octopus)

Red party plates (which I'm using to make paper crabs)

3 pk paper tissues fans (I'm using to make jellyfish)

Aqua streamers (for the octopus & jellyfish)

Yellow streamers (for the octopus & jellyfish)

Toiletries: Degree Men deodorant twin pack

Revlon Colorstay foundation for oily/combination skin 

If you are interested in what we've been having for dinner lately click  here!

Thanks for stopping by!

xoxo

WalMart Grocery Haul {photos}

I wanted to share the items I picked up on my weekly trip to the grocery store!

-2 pack of Fruity Dyno-Bites cereal (This was on sale for $3.00!)

-Cascadian Farm Organic Granola

-2 1 lb. packages of ground turkey (I was able to price match these for $2.50 each!)

-8 lb. box of ground beef hamburger patties (Came out to $2.87 per lb!)

-Great Value Aluminum Foil

-Great Value Large Black Garbage bags

-1 gallon of Great Value 1% milk (Price matched!)

-Downey unstoppables

-Simple Makeup cleansing wipes

-DoubleStuf Oreos (I price matched these for $2.50!)

-Kraft American Cheese slices

-1 yellow & 1 orange bell pepper (Price matched!)

-Campbell's Creamy Poblano & Cilantro

-Campbell's Fiesta Nacho Cheese

-Great Value Diced Tomatoes & Green Chilis

-Rotel Lime & Cilantro diced tomatoes & green chilis

-I Can't Believe It's Not Butter sticks

-Broccoli (Price matched!)

-3 Limes (Price matched!)

-Mushrooms

-6 bottles of Snapple

-Kings Hawaiian rolls

-1 box Hot Pockets

-Sara Lee hot dog buns

-Prima Della Colby Cheese & Garlic Herb Chicken deli meat & cheese

-Barilla Whole Grain medium shells

-Sargento Cheddar Jack cheese

-Miracle Whip (Price matched!)

-Lawry's marinades: Herb & Garlic and Teryaki (Price matched!)

-Sweet Baby Rays BBQ sauce (Price matched!)

-Nestle waterbottles

I hope you enjoyed seeing the items I bought at the grocery store this week! I stayed right on track with our budget and was even able to save a little bit of money with new system for making my shopping list and price matching with my local grocery stores! It also helped that I was able to buy all that ground beef in bulk! We're set for months!

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What's on the menu? {Meal planning 5/29-6/4}

I used to do my grocery shopping on whatever day we ran out of food and I would drag my husband along {literally drag, he hates grocery shopping}

Then I started planning our meals and we would go every Saturday. That worked for a while except that the stores are so busy on Saturday. I hated how crowded the aisles were! I tried Mondays but they were just as busy. I finally settled into a routine of going on Tuesday. The stores were quiet. The aisles mostly empty. And I could just stop at the store on my way home from work. It was perfect. Especially for my husband because I would go alone. I actually started enjoying grocery shopping because I enjoyed the time alone. I was free to wander the aisles or hurry through my list. Tuesday was my day. That is until I decided I wanted to start price matching!

The ads for the two grocery stores in the area arrive in the mail on Wednesday. That meant I was doing all of my shopping on Tuesday, getting the ads on Wednesday, and not being able to price match for a whole week when I went back to the store. It wouldn't matter if I could find everything at Walmart but since there are sometimes things on sale at the grocery stores that Walmart doesn't carry I want to be able to go to that grocery store and pick those things up before they are out of stock!

{like last week a grocery store had ground beef on sale $2.79/lb. That is like UNHEARD of these days. It was right before the holiday weekend though and they ran out QUICK so I wasn't able to get any because I didn't go right away.}

So I have changed my grocery plan!

I will get the ads on Wednesday, go through them, figure out what I want to price match, make my menu plan, & my shopping list. Then on Thursday after work I will do the grocery shopping!

This is the first week I'm trying out this new schedule but so far so good!

Take at look at my meal plan for the next week...

What are you having this week?

xoxo

Quick WalMart Grocery Haul! {photos}

I needed to stop in at Walmart today after work to pick up a few things. It has been a week since I did our big grocery trip and I still have everything I need for dinner but I was out of things for breakfast, extras for lunch, some snacks, and quite a bit of produce. We also needed water bottles and puppy food so I made a short list. Here's what i got...

-28 pack of Nestle Pure Life water bottles

-1 head of romaine lettuce

I've really enjoyed making salads lately for lunch at work. I take whatever leftover meat we have from our dinner the night before (grilled chicken, ground beef taco meat, etc) and put it over lettuce with chopped veggies, lemon, & some kind of dressing.

-1 bag of frozen fruit (strawberries, peach, mango, &a pineapple)

-organic baby spinach

I picked these up for making smoothies. I'm so excited for warmer weather!

-Shredded mozzarella cheese

-4 pink lady apples

For breakfast at work

-5 bananas

For the smoothies

-H.K. Anderson cheddar cheese pretzel pieces

-Mini Pretzels covered with chocolate and butterfinger

Snacks for my husband and I.

-Lean Cuisine chicken ranch club flatbread melt

-Lean Cuisine salad additions in southwest style chicken

I got both of these to have for lunch at work. I've had the flatbread melt before and it was really food. I'm excited to try the salad mix

-Cinnamon Brown Sugar belVita breakfast biscuits

I was really surprised how much I liked these the first time I bought them. The come in packs with four biscuits in each pack and they are really quite filling. They are similar in taste to a graham cracker. They have different flavors but Cinnamon Brown Sugar is my favorite

-3 cups of Tillamook Lowfat French Vanilla Yogurt

-Great Value Medium Chunky Salsa

-1 package of cherry tomatoes (or maybe grape tomatoes... I can never remember the difference)

This trip came to a total of $51.00.

It'll have been 2 weeks since my last big Walmart trip before I need to go to the store again which means over two weeks I spent $200.00 on groceries. We budget a little over $400.00 month at Walmart (for not just food but all of our household items & pet supplies) so I'm right on track!

xoxo

Small Grocery Haul

After doing my weekly grocery shopping at Walmart I saw there were a few good sales at my local grocery store so I stopped in and picked up a few more things.

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My weekly meal plan!

As I mentioned in my grocery haul I always plan our meals for the week before I go to the grocery store. Some weeks I feel motivated to cook dinner, try new recipes, and I really look forward to making my grocery list. Other times I just want to make grilled cheese sandwiches and pretend that's a balanced meal. Lately I've been doing a lot better about making dinner and am actually excited when dinner time rolls around each night.

I have an ambitious meal plan for the next week without any really easy nights but I've been more committed lately to not letting any food in our fridge go to waste which is helping me find the motivation to make the food I've planned for the night.

Take a look below at what we have on the menu...

xoxo

Walmart grocery haul

one of my new favorite things to watch on youtube is grocery hauls and meal planning so when i got home from walmart i decided to do a video of the things i bought. i'm also writing a post of my meal plan for the next week and a half. first up, the groceries.

i like in a small rural area. there are two small grocery stores and a walmart. i do the majority of my shopping at walmart but it is 30 miles round trip so i can't just run to the store whenever i need something. my solution was to plan out everything my husband and i will need for the next week to a week and half and buy it all at once. i plan our dinners and what ingredients i will need and don't already have. i plan quick easy breakfasts and lunches for the work week and something more fun for the weekend (unless we're going out which we like to do on the weekend). then i make a list of the household/random things we need (it is walmart after all, you can get it all). this includes toiletries, cleaning products, cat and dog food, things for the car, things for projects, etc.

once i have my whole list i rewrite it in the order that i walk through the store. i hate having to backtrack and i feel like this makes the trip go more quickly.

once i have my list i'm ready to go. take a look at what i bought and stay tuned for my meal plan coming up next!




xoxo