I debated about doing a grocery haul this month. Not just a post/video, but doing a grocery shopping trip at all! We have lots of produce from our summer and fall garden and plenty of food storage. There wasn’t really much that we needed, but I went ahead and shopped just to replenish our food storage.
For those who are new here, I do my grocery shopping a little different than many people. Instead of shopping from a menu and buying exactly the things I’ll need for our monthly meals, I shop according to what’s on sale and what we’re running low on. I like to be well-stocked on the ingredients we use regularly AND the things we store for our long-term food storage.
In addition to the things I knew we were low on, I was eager to see what seasonal items were on sale. This time I restocked some canned veggies like corn, diced tomatoes, and French cut green beans. We don’t use canned veggies all that often, but they are perfect for long-term food storage, as canned food lasts indefinitely. I ordered diced tomatoes from Sam’s Club before I knew that they were going to be a super great price at Winco. I’ve never seen them that low ($.46) since we’ve lived in California.
I got chocolate covered raisins, M&Ms, and Hershey kisses for Christmas. They are much cheaper per ounce to buy them from Sam’s Club. I divvy them up into smaller bags to go into stockings.
If you want to head into the store with me, you can watch the video below, otherwise just checkout the price list below that!
Winco– $186
- Whole wheat bread $1.88 x 10 = $16.80
- Frozen berries (64 oz) $6.98 x 2 = $13.96
- Baby carrots (2 lb) $1.88 x 2 = $3.76
- Fresh cranberries (12 oz) $1.48 x 4 = $5.92
- Bagels (6 ct) $2.48 x 3 = $7.44
- Mini marshmallows $.98
- Regular marshmallows $.98 x 2 – $1.96
- Cookies $1.38 x 4= $5.52
- Hot dogs $2.94 x 2 = $5.88
- Buns $1.78
- Brown sugar (2 lb) $1.38 x 2 = $5.52
- Sweeten condensed milk $1.38 x 4 = $5.52
- Cooking spray $1.38 x 2 = $2.76
- Creamed corn $.50 x 8 = $4.00
- Saltines $1.18 x 2 = $2.36
- Oyster crackers $1.18 x 4 = $4.72
- Diced tomatoes $.46 x 24 = $11.04
- Green beans $.50 x 36 = $18.00
- Corn $.50 x 12 = $6.00
- Spaghetti sauce (24 oz) $.88 x 12 = $10.86
- Christmas Sixlets candy $2.98/lb x 1.8 lb = $5.36
- Mini chocolate chips $2.88/lb x 3.7 lb = $10.66
- Potatoes (10 lb) $2.98
- Sugar (25 lb) $11.98
- White beans (25 lb) $20.68
Sam’s Club $177
- Honey (40oz x 2) $12.94
- Minced garlic (48 oz) $3.98
- Butter (4 lb) $7.26
- Gala apples (5 lb) $4.46
- Raisins (30oz x 2) $8.98
- Granny smith apples (5 lb) $4.88
- Hershey kisses (52 oz) $9.98
- Apple juice (96 oz x 2) $4.48 x 2 = $8.96
- Mandarins (5 lb) $4.98 x 3 = $14.94
- Ranch dressing (40 oz x 2) $9.93
- Strawberry jam (64 oz x 2) $5.48
- Peanut butter (40oz x 2) $6.98 x 4 = $27.92
- Peaches (105 oz) $6.98 x 2 = $13.96
- Chocolate covered raisins (54 oz) $10.98
- M&Ms (62 oz) $10.78
- Chocolate chips (72 oz) $7.92
- Diced tomatoes (12 cans) $6.98 x 2 = $13.96 (shipped)
I wasn’t sure what I was going to buy this time, but it turned out to be a good shopping trip. We stocked up on some food storage items and we will stay pretty well within our grocery budget in December.
What are your biggest struggles with your grocery budget right now?
You and your daughter are twins! Such a cute helper! Thanks for sharing your grocery haul. We’re in the middle of moving out-of-state so our grocery budget is all over the place!
That’s smart of you to have accepted that invitation! And you helped to reduce food waste!
Love the idea of a brunch club, once schools are back in session.
My children are out of school for the summer. On the last day of my son’s classes, the school asked all of the parents to go “shopping” in their music room – earlier this year they’d started a Brunch Club and then Covid hit, and with it nearly two terms of remote learning, so they had cases and cases of leftover food. Very few people were interested, but I came away with about 15 boxes of cereal (if we don’t eat it all before it goes stale we’ll feed it to the sheep), some baked beans, soup, crackers, fruit cups, instant oats, muesli, some spreads . . . In all a couple hundred dollars worth of groceries for free. I could have taken more but I knew we’d be struggling to store what I took! It was all close to its use-by so the food banks wouldn’t take it; but none of it is food that actually goes ‘off.’