This week in groceries

All that is left in my wallet is receipts. I can only hope that this means it was money well spent. Still. Being broke is depressing. Well I know for sure I spent more than I wanted to on apples and oranges at Aldi because I read the ad for the previous week. Oops! Also, there were some specialty items that made it onto my list for the boy's birthday. Happy birthday sweetie! Without further ado, here is this week's tally.

ALDI
Olives $0.99/can x 6 = $5.94
Black Beans $0.59/15oz. can x 3 = $1.77
Tangelos $2.49/4 Lbs.
Apples (Red Delicious) $3.49/3 Lbs.
Whipped Topping $0.89/8oz. x 3 = $2.67
Instant Chocolate Pudding $0.55/4oz x 2 = $1.10
TOTAL (no tax) $17.46

HYVEE
Unsalted Butter $1.99/Lb.
Yoplait Greek Yogurt $2.99/4 (6oz)
Heath Bits $2.99/12oz.
Dark Red Kidney Beans $1.00/2 (15oz) cans
Light Red Kidney Beans $1.00/2 (15oz) cans
Purex Free & Clear Laundry Detergent $2.50/50oz.
Hamburger (80%) $7.47/3 Lbs. x 2 = $14.94
Shredded Cheese (various) $4.00/3 (8oz.)
TOTAL (no tax) $31.41

Obviously I wasn't as prepared as I'd like to have been: I ended up running out of cocoa in the middle of making from scratch brownies, and when it came time to make the pudding for the boy's birthday cake, the kids had drunk the last half gallon of milk in a single afternoon. Grr! The boy also requested hamburgers for supper (his favorite!) and I didn't know if my breadmaker would make enough dough to turn out buns for supper, so I just bought some. Add another $7.58 to this weeks grocery bill for those.

I scored big time at Goodwill finally. I have been scouting the store every couple weeks for another breadmaker to give to my sister. $12.38 (plus tax) for a Black & Decker B1560 1.5 loaf. I could NOT find a manual anywhere for it, but a close model is pretty much the same (B1561). I hope she likes it, I made one loaf with it to test out how it works in case it needed to be returned. The loaf was okay, but fell a little. What I didn't really like was how long it took before it started cooking. It does a preheat kind of thing before it does all it's proofing/baking, it said in the book only an extra 15 minutes, but it was much closer to an extra hour I think. My West Bend machine takes exactly as long as it says on the timer with no waiting. Hopefully that is not a huge problem for her. Maybe I'll keep scouting to see if a better one comes along. Wish me luck!