Household:
Brita filters (3),vinegar for killing weeds $10.00 Salvage
Quart bags, sandwich bags $1.58 Salvage
17 canning jars $ 15.84 Goodwill
Ice cube tray $0.49 Goodwill
Set of white sheets to make Christmas wreath $4.99 GOODWILL
Total: $32.90 We are over this month but it will all even out eventually.
Personal Care
3 bottles silver shampoo $15.87
1. I was gifted some zucchini and decided to make relish with it, the first I have made in many years. I shredded some for the freezer and made sweet pickles with the rest.
2. Gifted some cucumbers. Made dill and candied dill pickles with them.
3. Gifted 104 skeins of yarn by a friend and her sister to use for my charity crocheting.
4. Three Huge zucchini were given to us. I made candy dilled chunks with some, planks for lasagna with some, and shredded the rest.
5. A friend was gifted a lot of corn. She shared with us. We have been enjoying it for several days.
Allocation: $300.00
Cushion: $712.55
Year to Date (226 days) : $1378.41
What We Ate: garlic lemon shrimp over couscous with carrot raisin salad; sausage and potato quiche, three bean salad, yogurt and pears; leftover Chinese; bridges I, saffron potatoes, honey basted carrots; meatless chicken fried steak, baked potato, green beans;pepperoni balls, potato rounds, three bean salad; like lasagna, green beans, garlic bread; Italian sausage on grill with peppers and onions, butter beans, pears, soup and sandwiches, like lasagna, carrot salad, garlic cheese bread; pork pad Thai and Chinese pancakes; homemade supreme pizza; pork, sauerkraut and applesauce with baked potato
What We Bought:
Family Fare (Michigan): cabbage (3#), bananas (3#), puff pastry( for spinach pie), pizza dough (for RV) $10.60
Smoked fish in Michigan $15
Mozzarella $3.29
Total Groceries: $28.89
Eating Out:
Dinner while camping $17.87
Anniversary breakfast $7.97
Anniversary lunch $10.74
Lunch while cleaning out Dad's $10.79
Anniversary dinner $27.28
Lunch heading to Michigan $4.29
Lunch on Mackinac Island $24.26 (and it wasn't even good!)
Fish dinner on Michigan Upper Peninsula $22.55
Total Eating Out: $103.20
We ate out A LOT! That's what an anniversary and vacation will do to you. :)
Remaining Allocation: $167.91
Self rising flour 10# $1.25
Pasta 59 cents
Tahini (3) 15 oz 99cents each
Heinz beans (2) 35 cents each
Beets (3) 89 cents each
Vinegar, gallon $2.19
Black beans, dry 59 cents
Great northern beans, dry 59 cents
Heath pieces (2) 50 cents each
Spicy curry sauce 79 cents
Butter beans 35 cents
Oregano, dill weed, ginger $1.00 each
Curry powder 7 oz $1.99
Bold tacos kit 99 cents
Total: $20.54
Butter beans (3) 35 cents each
Corn 35 cents
Chives $1.00
Hormel chili (2) 50 cents each
Albacore tuna (3) 69 cents each
Canned chicken (7) 69 cents each
Self rising flour (2) 5 lb at 75 cents each
Pad Thai noodles b75 cents
wheat crackers 50 cents
pop tarts (32) $3.99
Total: $16.54
Remaining Allocation: $227.95
Cushion: $587.63
YTD Cost (195 days): $1193.33
What We Ate: beef and broccoli stir fry with mushrooms and water chestnuts over rice; grilled ham steak with honey mustard, tomato and black b salad, butternut squash and baked potatoes; scalloped potatoes and ham, carrots, applesauce; bean and vegetables curry, curried potatoes, yogurt; meatless chicken fried steak, potatoes, salad, carrots; grilled hamburger, smashed potatoes, salad; deli sandwiches and potato rounds with salad; zucchini "crab" cakes, quinoa pilaf and salad (2); meatless chicken fried steak, corn on the cob, lemon yogurt; BBQ pork sandwiches, fried potatoes, corn on the cob; ham steak on the grill, corn, salad; chef salad and toasted bagel; onion and pepper sausage, potato wedges, salad; grilled pork loin, pasta with capers, green beans
What We Bought:
Wal-Mart: shredded wheat, old bay seasoning $6.41
Aldi: romaine, grapes, chopped walnuts, Roma tomatoes, cucumber $9.28
Food co-op: caraway seed $0.46
Aldi: vinegar, sugar $4.62
August Salvage Shop #1 : frozen spinach (3), ham steaks (2), nann, fire roasted eggplant, cider vinegar, bleu cheese dressing, sliced water chestnuts (5), yeast (#), tiny shrimp (2), smoked salmon (2), cottage cheese, potatoes (10#), onions (10#) $20.99
August Salvage Shop #2: pinto beans, Roman beans (2), black beans, kidney beans, sliced beets(2), whole water chestnuts (4), artichoke hearts,cheer stew starter (2), bean sprouts, bamboo shoots, grape leaves vegetable karma (2), beef onion soup mix (3), fine egg noodles, brown sugar (3), weetabits, $24.78
August Salvage Shop #3: black beans, kidney beans (3), chili beans, white beans (2), garbanzo beans (4), pinto beans (3), white chicken, coconut milk (2), fried apples (2),'tomato sauce, white clam sauce, jasmine boil in bag rice, dry milk (3#), korma simmer sauce (2), gyro breads, Pam, Montreal steak seasoning $19.49
Two Week Total for Groceries: $86.03 Including salvage stock up
Eating Out:
Erie Yacht Club: $17 for dinner using my birthday gift card
Two week total: $103.03
To Cushion: $124.92
New Cushion: $712.55
Monthly Total: $185.08
Monthly Cost/Day: $5.97
Monthly Cost/Person/Day: $2.99
Year to Date Total: $1378.41
Year to Date Cost/Day (226 days): $6.10
Year to Date Cost/Person/Day: $3.05
My stockpile is in good shape so I'm happy
