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To be honest, I don’t have a budget. I want a budget, but a certain, unnamed party doesn’t think we need one. I’ve been working on changing that for 8 years, to no avail. Stop it, I can hear you gasping. What? SHE doesn’t have a budget? Just remember that I’m REALLY good with money, but there are times when I think that a more conservative lifestyle would do us some good. Today I’m glad I don’t have a grocery budget, because I blew that sucker plum out of the water yesterday. Sometimes not having a budget is a good thing- especially when those great deals come along. This week has been a killer. First off, the Zaycon Foods truck is bringing me $130 worth of chicken. It’s well worth it, and it will save me a fortune in the long run! Secondly, our local store had whole hams on sale for 99¢/lb. We are spending a fortune on sandwich meat because it’s been too darn hot to cook, so I snagged a few of these. Yesterday, I got into an all out brawl with myself over whether I wanted to run into HyVee or not. I’d already made a couple of trips to the store and farmers market this week and had spent way over our usual grocery amount, and I had NO room in the fridge. As we walked through the door, there was a huge display with their Wild Wednesday sale item: ALL deli meats were $2.99/lb. So I bought some, as it can run up to $9/lb. I ran through the produce, where bananas were 30¢/lb. This was an omen after I paid nearly $1/lb the day before and came home to NO BANANAS! Trust me, half of these are probably gonna rot, because we have more bananas than the entire state of Hawaii. When I reached the meat department, I saw an ENTIRE fridge full of 3lb rolls of ground chuck with a huge sign that said $3.00. I’m thinking it’s $3/lb, but a lady walked up to me and said, “Honey, I just went and checked and it’s right!” That’s $1/lb. for ground chuck! I’m normally not all about meat in rolls, but this WAS HyVee and it WAS $1/lb. The catch? The date was 7/29. I bought 50lbs. I wish I’d gotten more, but I was still trying to figure out how to fit 80lbs of chicken in my freezer. On my way home, I had to stop at Gerbes (just like Dillons) to take advantage of the $1.38 GM cereal deal. I didn’t have any coupons, but they had Chex for $1.38 a box, so I grabbed them up. The cashier said, ‘Umm.. you just spent $20 on cereal’. ‘Umm… so?” I replied. I LOVE Chex and it’s normally pretty hard to get it for under $2 a box. I’ve lucked into $1 before, but I really don’t have time this month to deal with the back to school sales. This is good until next spring and will be great for puppy chow and chex mix for the holidays! So how much did I spend this week? Over $200 on groceries alone!! On the bright side- I won’t be buying meat until next summer, other than an occasional steak. Like this post? Check out the rest of our Diary of a Discount Shopper Series! 
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Where were you?? I know these weren’t Springfield deals – that is so great! You’re getting me very excited for Hyvee to open…