This was a bit of an odd week. I didn’t buy any groceries and on friday, The Girl and I ditched the boys and Lucy for a 4-day road trip. When we left I told the HH give take the 4 zucchini’s that were in the fridge and bring them to work so someone else Read More >>

Even though I totally went over my budget last week we were able to put a lot of great things in the the pantry. My goal for this week is to not buy anything to help offset last week’s splurges. Mom’s Pantry – Free Apparently my mom has found a better brand of tuna because Read More >>

My grocery goal for this past week was pretty simple. Eat from the pantry/freezer and don’t go over $10. Thanks to a few of you adding up my spending total for the year, I found out I had spent $938.31 so far. Add this week’s spending {$9.72} and it brings my total to $948.03 which leaves Read More >>

Is it just me, or is this summer zipping by? Seriously. How can it be mid July already? This week I did a little bartering with Mrs. HB, picked up some meat from Zaycon, stocked up on sale items and harvested a bunch of goodness out of the garden. All in all it was a Read More >>

This past week we spent less than $20 on groceries. That hasn’t happened in a long time {or so it seems}. So far this year we’ve spent $877.48, which if we were to stay on track for this year, puts us around the 3rd week in August spending wise. So, we are about 6 weeks Read More >>