I think I’m starting to get this whole shopping at one store thing down. Yes, Costco has it’s limitations {for instance I am out of ketchup. Do I want to buy 3 giant bottles of ketchup… NO} but for the most part, I think I’m doing pretty good. Cooking most of our meals from scratch Read More >>

I wasn’t planning on it but I had a “no spend” week. Maybe it was all the food I bought last week, or the fact that I had so much going on with the remodel, gardening and catching up on some blogging that I forgot to go to the store. I am down to a Read More >>

I arrived home Saturday afternoon to find a lovely birthday card from my in-laws. Tucked inside was a $100 cash card to Costco. Wahoooo! Who wouldn’t love that for their birthday? Especially since I came home to a totally empty fridge {well, okay, there was still plenty of yogurt} and bare cupboards. The boys had eaten Read More >>

I popped into Costco right before I left for the east coast and picked up a few of the boy’s favorite things… doughnuts, popcorn, chicken skewers and a few other necessities. Well, I consider bread and eggs necessities, but maybe I’m crazy. My husband isn’t known to cook, in fact maybe if I’m lucky he Read More >>

So, this may be a no brainer…. but even though I’m not buying all that much at Costco each week, I feel like I am spending too much. So far this year I have spent a whopping $193.20 on groceries. See the 5 pound sack of clementines? Those were $5.99. Which really isn’t a bad Read More >>