Small town shopping
With grocery shopping! It just amazes me how much things have gone up in the last year. I find it hard to buy what we need for much less than 100.00 a week. I live in a very rural area with only a Dollar General and a small locally owned grocery store to shop at. If I want a bigger store/chain store I have to drive 45 minutes- 1 hour to a bigger town. The only store anywhere near me that doubles coupons is a Kroger and then it’s only up to .50. By the time I pay 2.85 a gallon for gas for a gas guzzler, then drive that far I’m not saving anything!
Today I bought very little at our little store and spent 74.00! Here is what I got…….
Dollar General
3 bags of Lays chips for packing lunches – 2.00 each
4 boxes of probe covers for our digital thermometer – 1.25 each (these are VERY hard to find in my area this time of year so I stocked up)
2 2 liters of off brand diet cola for dh – .75 each
total 13.03
Little Corner Store
10# potatoes – 2.99
2 # carrots – 2.09(carrots are almost as much as potatoes!)
2.48 # bananas – 1.12
3 cake mixes – .89 each
1 gallon 2% milk- 3.29
1 head cabbage – 1.39
toilet paper – 5.99
2 dozen large eggs – 2.98
1 box instant mashed potatoes – 1.00 ( I use these for making sourdough bread)
1 pack of ham lunch meat – 2.99
1 8oz. block cheddar cheese – 1.99
1 4pk. of biscuits for making monkey bread – 1.25
1 small jar picante sauce – 1.55
2 3# bags of apples – 3.98
2 heads lettuce – 1.59 each!!!
3 tomatoes – 2.92
1 bag of tortilla chips- 1.89
1 pack of boneless pork chops – 4.96
Total 60.37
And my big deal for the day—— 2 packs of cheese, those big blocks with 160 slices in them??? for 5.19 EACH! There was no price on them so I asked the meat guy and he showed me a packing sticker on it and told me it was 5.19. I told him there was no way, it’s usually 13.00-15.00. He told me it said 5.19 and if they tried to ring it up as more to tell them HE told me it was 5.19. So I bought TWO! This will last us a while and I know it’s not really 5.19 and I will never get it at that low price again! A 24 pack of Kraft cheese was 3.19.
I feel like I get nothing for my money. I know I’m just going to have to adjust my thinking to the new higher prices and deal with it though! My family prefers most fruits/veggies raw and our little store charges a fortune for them and so much of the time they are half rotten. That limits me as to what I can buy there.