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1000$ a yr. grocery budget! Total spent: 100.09$ Saved: 362.76$

Posted 01-08-2008 at 08:03:59 AM by xlyingxwhispersx

I really use to spend to much money on grocerys and DH and I are trying really hard to save money, and believe it or not, but most of the money we have spent was grocery shopping. I decided after being here at HCW for a while..and couponing for awhile that I can do it! Im only going to spend 1000$ a year on grocerys.

This includes all food (AND eating out!, unless we use it out of out spending money for the week) all paper items (Toilet paper, Paper Towel, etc.) and cleaning items, etc!!

This started at the 1st on January 2008 :)

I can spend about 19$ a week. For those weeks I dont spend a whole 19$ I will roll it over into the next week and so on. Now, I may not be able to keep this goal, but im going to try really hard, and if I dont buy I try my best to stick with it ill still be really happy :)

Week 1: 1st-5th:
Genuardis: 20.82$ Saved: 88.93$

Week 2: 6th-12th
CVS: 1.94$ Saved: 189.11$
Great deals @ CVS this week.

Genuardis: 77.33$ Saved: 84.72
Got lots of meat, produce, canned, etc.
*I know I spent a decent amount today but this will set us for about 3 weeks. We were all out of meat!!*

Week 3: 13th- 19th
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