What does your shopping cart look like?

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Registered: 10-25-2004
What does your shopping cart look like?
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Fri, 04-27-2007 - 11:43am

I went shopping for groceries today and was amazed at the state of my shopping cart.


 


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Registered: 09-26-1999
Fri, 04-27-2007 - 2:52pm

I just got back from the grocery store, so I'm going right off my receipt...



  • Jar of dill pickles

  • Campbell's microwave soup for work lunch

  • Kraft Free cheese singles at a whopping $5.39 per pkg

  • 99% FF yogurt

  • plain bagels

  • steaks for grilling (finally nice weather to grill outdoors)

  • FF milk

  • FF french vanilla creamer for coffee

  • Jell-O FF pudding cups

  • Sugar Free Kool-Aid

  • lunch meat for DD's lunch

  • Life cereal

  • apples, onion, bell pepper, red potatoes, celery, green onions and a bag of salad mix, baby carrots

  • fruit from the salad bar for dinner side dish

  • I Can't Believe It's Not Butter

  • can of diced chiles

  • bottle of steak marinade

  • 2 loaves of bread

  • Heathly Choice and Smart Choice frozen entrees for work lunch

I would normally have eggs and thin sliced deli ham on the list, but we still have enough to last us this next week.

 

 

 


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Registered: 04-09-2007
Fri, 04-27-2007 - 3:02pm

I did a quick stop today.

Annie

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Registered: 01-04-2007
Fri, 04-27-2007 - 3:12pm

Hmm lets see,

Fiber one cereal

no sugar added 100% cranberry juice

oatmeal

low cal whole wheat bread

turkey hot dogs, bacon and sausage (for kiddos)

Kraft ff sliced cheese

Ham luch meat

skim milk (me)

1% (everyone else)

chicken nuggets (kids)

prepackaged salad (me and dd)

banana's, apples, grapes, carrots, cucumbers, mushrooms

ground turkey

whole wheat pasta

cup o noodles (kids)

HMMMM, I guess thats about it for normal.

WE are very tightly budgeted and have about $150 a week for 5 people.

iVillage Member
Registered: 10-25-2004
Fri, 04-27-2007 - 4:06pm
I'm lucky that we aren't on a super tight budget or anything.


 


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Registered: 01-25-2006
Fri, 04-27-2007 - 4:39pm

MINE CONSISTS OF WHATS ON SALE. LMAO


THE ONLY THING THAT IS REGULARLY IN THE BUGGY IS WATER FOR ME, SODA FOR ME & DH (MOSTLY DH) AND BANANA (MOSTLY FOR BLADE LOL) OTHER THAN THAT THERE IS A LOT OF CHICKEN BREASTS IN THERE TOO. I USED TO BUY DARK MEAT CUZ IT WAS CHEAPER BUT THEN I HAD TO BAKE/FRY IT AND I DIDN'T LIKE IT SO I STARTED BUYING THE BREASTS CUZ THEY ARE GREAT GRILLED!! PORK CHOPS, HAMBURGER, HOT DOGS (THE 2 LITTLE ONES COULD LIVE OFF THEM SOME DAYS) LOTS OF CHEF BOY R DEE FOR THE KIDDOS, JUICES FOR THE KIDDOS, CHOCOLOATE MILK, AND 2 % AND CHEESE (THE FULL FAT KIND AS THE REST OF THE FAMILY IS THE ONES WHO EAT IT THE MOST), BREAD - WHITE (DH AND KIDDO) HONEY WHEAT FOR ME

 

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Registered: 01-04-2007
Fri, 04-27-2007 - 4:47pm
Staci--It is really hard to live on such a tight budget, ecspecially with growing kids. Thankfully 9 months out of the year my kids eat 2 meals a day at school for free so that saves some money. I can tell this summer I am gonna have to try and squeeze some more out for the food budget. I tend to buy alot of what I find in the 'bent and dent" area, and the fresh stuff we get like apples and such are always the type that is on sale.
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Registered: 10-25-2004
Fri, 04-27-2007 - 7:42pm

DH and I are wanting to buy a newer, bigger house (about 2xs as much as the one we have now) and after that I want to grow our family, so I know we need to try to get more on a budget.


 


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Registered: 01-04-2007
Sat, 04-28-2007 - 12:27pm

Staci--WOW, where do you live that ground turkey is that cheap?? I pay $3.59 a pound for it here, more expensive than ground beef, but better for you. Every time I go in the store I run back to the meat to see if they have any marked down.

We didnt get a walmart until a few years ago and they didn't make it a super walmart, so no groceries. I miss that from when we lived in the states, because we shopped there all the time. They are supposed to be expanding it to a super at some point, but ...... So unfortuanatly we live in a small community without much competition in the grocery department so we get reemed on prices.

iVillage Member
Registered: 10-25-2003
Sat, 04-28-2007 - 2:37pm

I go to two places, a local supermarket and then to Trader Joe's almost every Saturday - and items depend on price as well

supermarket

banana
apple
cantaloupe
6 pack v8 juice
water
WW yogurt
lite bread
lite English muffins
lite bagels
Frozen veggies (mixed, spinach, onion, broccoli, cauliflower, carrots)
coffee
diet coke (8 oz 6 pack)crystal lite
lite cool whip
Swiss miss diet cocoa
sf ff pudding

At TJ

kiwi
strawberries
lettuc
tomao
frozen green beans
frozen asparagus
fish
salmon patties
cereal when needed
frozen blueberries (until the fresh are in season and right price)
occasionally lite cheese (freezes well)
lite goat cheese (freezes well)
lite mozzarella cheese (freezes well)
low sodium deli occasionally
frozen shrimp
eggs
hummus

Sue
302/137/160

Sue

 

 

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iVillage Member
Registered: 02-23-2006
Sun, 04-29-2007 - 9:21pm

I actually do very little grocery shopping, my sil does most of it as she is the one who makes dinner and it is her house lol.


I usually get some combination of:


Light Soymilk
Lowfat cottage cheese
canned fruit
stuff for dh's lunch
frozen fruit
slimfast shake mix
veggies/fruit on sale if we don't have any, but we usually do
lunchmeat-if needed
cereal
Lowfat or FF cream cheese
mini bagels


 


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