Some people like these and this seemed like an easy post.
Here's our grocery order for this week (picked up this last Saturday):
Bread
2x 12 packs of fizzy water cans
eggs
gallon milk (DC1 is currently a heavy drinker)
2 things of sliced cheese
2 things of butter (DC1 and DC2 have both opted for heavy baking in their "one cooked item a week" summer cooking, so we're running low-- usually we get one and sometimes zero)
shredded cheese
whipping cream
sliced roast beef
chopped pancetta
pint of ice cream (cinnamon chocolate almond!)
chocolate covered frozen bananas
Kind frozen treat (we've never had this before-- I suspect it will be bad, but it's summer and impulse buying frozen things is easy. Update: much closer to what you want the snickers ice cream bars to be but still too sweet.)
2 packages Sorbet bars (these are new and on a 2 for 1 sale and I wanted to try them out)
PF Chang's mongolian style beef
2 pot pies (new: I haven't been able to get any in forever, but this brand doesn't have yeast extract so I thought I'd give them a try. Usually we make pot pies and probably will in the near future because DH keeps saying "I like pot pie" just before I fall asleep at night, which I think is a hint, though since he's the one who makes pie dough he could just make pot pie a reality without telling me, though I guess I do make better filling than he does and without a recipe.)
frozen eggrolls
frozen chicken breasts
bananas
blueberries
blackberries
gala apples
strawberries
raspberries (all the above fruits are organic. DC2 and I eat a lot of fruit. It's one of the best things about being rich IMO. I know what we've ordered all seems boring, but we still have rambutan from last week, and I'm waiting for organic cherries-- or way cheaper conventional cherries-- and organic peaches before buying those for the season)
vidalia onions
mandarin oranges
pears
single orange (I think this is for a recipe)
kale
basil
zucchini
snowpeas (some but not all of the above are organic)
multivitamins (doctor's orders)
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ground beef (organic)
triscuits
maple syrup
3 bars of Ghirardelli chocolate (low lead...)
museli
pecan halves
beef jerky (we've never gotten this before, but it was free with another thing we were going to buy anyway)
brown sugar
whole wheat flour
chocolate chips
canned clams
chocolate wafers for baking
all purpose flour
regular sugar
peanuts
Total bill: $261.45
We shop every week, I have an overflowing pantry (#depressionparent). This is about what we spend each week, give or take. There's a core set of things we get every week (bread, eggs, butter, milk, garlic, etc. But no garlic this week because we have 3 in the pantry already.), we get things specifically for recipes (ex. clams, pancetta, basil), and then I tend to get new crazy things based on sales (ex. beef jerky, sorbet bars) or browsing on the website (ex. pot pies, eggrolls). When we were shopping at the other grocery store I didn't get as many frozen meals because there was almost nothing that we could all eat-- everything either had things that DC2 couldn't eat because of allergies (food dyes) or I couldn't eat because of yeast extract. We would instead get frozen meals at Trader Joe's in the city, but we do that a lot less now.
I keep a running menu plan on the fridge. I try to have seven meals listed per week, though it varies. Here's a snapshot of this coming week right before I did the next week's menu planning. (Next week does have a full size pot-pie planned.) DC1 made the scones and they were good (also why we needed the orange, but zie denuded 3 mandarins instead of using the orange purchased for that purpose).
Some weeks we don't eat out at all, but I suspect in the summer we'll eat out about once a week. It's much nicer to get take-out when the students are gone and it's good to support our favorite places in the summer so they're still there in the fall.
What is your summer grocery shop like? How often do you go to the grocery store? Does our bill seem high for a family of 4 or normal?
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