Welcome to my first full week shopping with food stamps!
This week, I really splashed out and went to the "regular" (read: expensive) grocery store to take advantage of some sales and coupons. I bought:
- Tofutti cream cheese - $4.59
- Two pints of non-dairy Ben & Jerry's - $4.00 each
- Morning Star chicken strips - $4.00
- Morning Star hot dogs - $4.00
- Morning Star crumbles for tacos - $4.00
- Red grapes - $1.19
- 3-pack of razors - $3.99
- Four 12-packs of seltzer water (not pictured) - $3.40 each
My pre-promo total was $72.18, which is absolutely ridiculous. Had I purchased the exact same stuff from Walmart (with the exception of the cream cheese being Violife brand instead of Tofutti), my total would have been $53. That's a 26% markup!
Worry not -- I'm too savvy (and too broke) to pay full price at the fancy-pants grocery store. After all the promos, my total was $30.65. All but $0.30 of that was covered by my EBT account -- I just had to pay tax on the razors.
After that, I went to Walmart to buy the rest of the items on my list:
- Everything bagels - $3.88
- Taco Shells - $1.54
- Rigatoni - $0.98
- Pasta sauce - $1.67
- Two cans of chickpeas - $0.86 each
- Two cans of black beans - $0.86 each
- One jar of salsa - $2.64
- Plain coconut yogurt - $5.30
- Frozen spinach - $1.26
- Cilantro - $0.83
My total at Walmart was $21.54, making my final grocery cost for the week $52.19, which is $9 below the current national average for a frugal gal my age.
(I'm not making this up, it's on the USDA website: https://www.fns.usda.gov/research/cnpp/usda-food-plans/cost-food-monthly-reports)
Stay tuned to see what I eat this week!
To see my first attempt at shopping with food stamps, click here.
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