We got several boxes in from my Sam’s order this week from many different states, but what do they with coffee, nuts, tortillas, canister of Gatorade and 14 lbs of brown sugar? Why pack it all in the same box! One (at least it was only one) canister of coffee burst open and got into everything else. The bags of brown sugar were slightly torn but oh, it was just enough to get coffee grounds all down in the bags. Sometimes they ship the coffee shrink wrapped in plastic so the lid stays on, or with nothing heavy in the box, but this is the second time they’ve done this. What a mess I’ve had to clean up, and I’m still working on calming down before I get in touch with them to make things right, again. Besides the above items, we got regular sugar, powdered sugar, tea, chips, white vinegar, braggs apple cider vinegar and popcorn.
SB~ We don’t even shop once a month for the most part. Now DH will stop by a local store if they have a really good buy on something and we try to stock up as things go on sale, so one month we may spend way more than the next two months. And he‘ll drop in for a few needed items along but we really don’t go grocery shopping on a regular basis anymore.
Our grocery budget is just for food, anything else has its own category. Outside of a little gardening and a beef about every other year we don’t raise much of our food either. Not even eggs anymore since something killed my last two chickens about a week ago. I’ve told DH we aren’t getting any more unless we can have a coop/pen closer to the house and make it where we can keep them safer. At one time we had several breeds of chickens, turkeys, Guineas, ducks, geese and two livestock guardian dogs that kept them all fairly safe but not anymore. We have raised/butchered some of the birds for food in the past but its too much for me and I don’t want to if I don’t have to.
Speaking of groceries, our fridge is looking really bare! We’re going to have to make that shopping trip to Sam’s and maybe ALDIs soon that we’ve been putting off. I have been doing pretty well with stretching and using things up out of the freezer, fridge and pantry, so there has been little to no waste.