Day 64

It appears that the stomach flu might be going around our house so I didn’t get around to visiting both Wild Oats and Whole Foods — just Wild Oats because it’s on the way home from church. Once I was home I couldn’t bring myself to leave the house again. I’d been planning on getting [...]

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Day 57

Church — $15.00Weekly offering.
Einstein Bagels — $17.10I knew The Son’s Supersize Me-induced soda moratorium would be short lived After all, he’s 13 and skinny as a bean pole. It doesn’t bother me any since I consider it my job to limit his soda intake. We ordered our usual Dozen Bucket [...]

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Day 43

Church — $15.00Weekly offering.
Einstein Bros Bagels — $11.30Bought lunch for The Son and The Daughter. We ate there and I splurged letting the kids have “sandwiches” and cookies and sodas, too. No bucket deal this week. We had an hour to kill before dropping The Daughter at school for a play rehearsal so we “dined [...]

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Day 36

Church — $25.00Weekly offeringKroger — $12.32treats for church

gallon of apple juice for cider
croissants

TJ Maxx — $35.50two tops for The Daughter and a pair of Life is Good flannel PJ bottoms for me (I love these and am excited to have a second pair now)

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Day 29

Church — $15.00Weekly offering.Wild Oats — $59.49

roast beef — sliced;
gallon of milk;
package of english muffins
fiber capsules;
Annie’s Mac & Cheese — 2 boxes;
O’Coco’s cookies;
5 energy bars, 3 varieties (for The Daughter);
2 slices of pizza (for the kids);
1 tray of sushi (to share).

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Day 15

Church — $10.00weekly offeringWild Oats — $29.24Pizza slices and drinks for The Son and The Daughter; sushi tray and Odwalla juice for me. Also veggies and dishwasher tablets.Kroger — $35.74groceries: Amy’s frozen burritos (buy one, get one sale), ice cream, lunch meat, corn chips, chocolate chip cookies, cheese, over-ripe bananas (for banana bread), chewing gum [...]

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Day 8

church — $15.00weekly offering.Wild Oats — $9.11Pizza and a soda for The Son for lunch after church. Gallon of milk; first gallon that I’ve dared to buy for over a month since realizing that my milk was going bad every other day or so because the fridge was dying.Kroger — $101.56Big time grocery shopping to [...]

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Day 1

Church — $15.00Weekly offering.Einstein Bros. Bagels — $12.49A (baker’s) dozen plain bagels plus 2 tubs of plain (full-fat) cream cheese.Wild Oats — $14.54Sushi, drinks, and a cookie for lunch after Church.
Wild Oats — $16.96Pizza, Stress Mints, and tortillas at another Wild Oats because the first store was out of stock on the tortillas and their [...]

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