Could this be MY personal best???

4dogs3cats

Went to the grocery story last night. Needed some stuff, didnt need a lot of other stuff lol. I went in with a budget of $100 dollars. I came out spending $86.00. And look at all this STUFF!



Oh and in case you cant see in the back right there is a whole rump roast for pot roast and a package of beef necks for the dogs when they go to beef.

Pepper

haha that always happens when I go to the store! I'm getting eggs and milk...come out with like...chips, cookie dough, junkk fooodd!!

mmm pizzaaa =P

Criosphynx

mmmmm gatorade

I never get out of the store under $170, and theres just two of us.

Tsk tsk soo many chips!

4dogs3cats

haha I got pretty much what I needed to get, we had food, just no snacks.

I dont even EAT chips! Those are Eriks favorite, spicy swete chilli doritos.

Jaylie

Haha, we do the foodshare thing. Every tuesday we go to Trader Joes and get all the food that is about to expire. We fill our Suburban to the top. We usually take what's in the middle seat, and then drive the rest to the drop-off spot. Then a bunch of families come and we all share the rest of the food. We (Just our family) usually end up with about 3 or 4 hundred dollars worth of food. The rest of the food that gets distributed is probably 5 or 6 hundred dollars worth. And this is just one day. Someone different picks up the food every day.

And really, there's nothing much wrong with it. The only reason they give it to us is because on the shelf, nobody would reach for this food when there's the stuff that's fresher right next to it. Or if something get's a little torn, a can is "deformed," a bag is ripped open, etc...It comes to us.

Tsk tsk...FOLGERS coffee?? Hullo, it's called "CAMANO ISLAND COFFEE ROASTERS."

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Criosphynx

I always buy the dented cans and boxes, I feel bad for them...

Pepper

hahahahahaha!!!!!!

Sorry for some reason that made me crack up...I'm going to go tell my mom that...

Mom we have to buy the dented cans and boxes! I feel bad for them!!

Criosphynx

My SO laughs about it too. I know, im a dork.

Pepper

=DD It's okay, I have also been referred to as..a...dork...=D

4dogs3cats

haha aww I love that

Criosphynx

yeah, it probably explains all the broken dogs i have.

I also buy the dying plants at the nurseries, especially the ugly unwanted cacti.

Pepper

I wish people felt the same way about the "damaged" dogs at pounds =[

haha I turned it all serious..sorry!

Criosphynx

aaaaahhh, now your going to make me cry. \

I wasn't planning on getting Tippy AT ALL. I went to the pound just to look, i like to talk to the dogs there, they are so sad. I watched people look at her and fuss and say how cute, and then she'd fall down and they would *gasp* or say "oh som'things wrong with that one!"

and then keep walking. I don't get it. She is the best dog.

Pepper

awww I adopted a dog from our pound once...he was a huge thing...wolf/husky/chow/GSD....well he was going to be put to sleep that day...and I had the choice between 8 wk old puppies and him, and of course I chose him...on the chart it said he was good with all animals and cats.....=[ that wasn't true...

We had him for a couple weeks...he almost killed our cats...we pulled him off of them and they were cowering under the bed in their own waste...they were so scared they had gone to the bathroom on themselves....

I was so sad when we had to bring him back...I felt so guilty for giving him false hope of a good home =[

emily445455

When I go shopping I try really really hard to stick to the list....otherwise it costs way too much $$$$

harrise

That there is a skill I do not possess. It would be a stroke of luck if I had more than one bag for $100.

Oh, looks like my cats were trying to look out your windows...

Mudra

Just a month ago, our grocery lists consists of:
JUNK FOOD
JUNK FOOD
JUNK FOOD
and more junk food...

Then suddenly everything changed.. DH quit smoking, we both signed up for gym memberships, hired a gym trainer and turned our junk food habits into "EATING HEALTHY".. a month ago, $100 will buy as more junk food than we can ever imagine, chips, chocolates, soda, cookies... now.. $200 is just not enough to buy all the HEALTHY FOOD in the world, a lb of asparagus cost twice as much as a box of oreo cookies... what's the deal??? Just goes without saying.. ITS CHEAPER TO GET FAT than it is to be healthy.. sad reality, isn't it?

Looking at your groceries Jen, I think I drooled a little bit on my keyboard.. LOL!

JackiesZoo

Ok...thank you, thank you very much. It is not even 10:30am here and I just ran to my vending machine and got some Doritos! Ahhhhh...DARN junk food to HECK!!! But it soooo yummy! ROFLMAO

My grocery shopping looks a lot like yours Jen. I always seem to need "snacks."

4dogs3cats

sadly that is the third set of blinds I have had on those two windows. It was either your cats or my german shepherd and beagle!

haha.. oh and you need to shop here, a lb of asparagus costs us 1.99 here, and oreos are 2.50!

haha we had food, steaks, pot roast, pasta, etc etc, we needed some snacks! There isnt anything to do in the middle of summer in AZ, you cant go outside, you just stay in and eat!

allison

OMG! I can't believe you got out of there with 86 bucks... I bow to you! For some reason we spend almost $200 everytime we go, and it's just the 2 of us! We do buy a lot of fresh foods though... oh yeah and that's just at Vons... add an extra 20-30 for my Trader Joes trip! lol. I just LOVE to go to the grocery store. I love to read labels... I know it's a sickness.

My name is Allison and I am a food-shopaholic.

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