{"id":4842,"date":"2011-04-15T13:07:55","date_gmt":"2011-04-15T17:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blessingsmultiplied.com\/?p=4842"},"modified":"2011-04-15T13:07:55","modified_gmt":"2011-04-15T17:07:55","slug":"living-on-a-budget-groceries-40-for-4-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blessingsmultiplied.com\/?p=4842","title":{"rendered":"Living on a Budget:  Groceries $40 for 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another great week doing Groceries $40 for 4. It was another busy week but I managed to break away this past Saturday morning to go to the Sav Mor Box Sale with the family. If you haven&#8217;t been before and you live in the Greenville area it is worth the time to stock up on food items. It felt great  saving some of the grocery shopping cash this week while stocking up on some items for our pantry.  Below are my  grocery shopping  adventures for the week!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4868\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4868\" style=\"width: 575px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.blessingsmultiplied.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/P1060837c.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4868\" title=\"Sav-Mor Sidewalk Box Sale\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.blessingsmultiplied.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/P1060837c.jpg?resize=575%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"575\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blessingsmultiplied.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/P1060837c.jpg?w=575&amp;ssl=1 575w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blessingsmultiplied.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/P1060837c.jpg?resize=300%2C157&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 575px) 100vw, 575px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4868\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sav-Mor Sidewalk Box Sale - A Table Full for $16!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We bought 107 items and paid $16.00 total which means we spent less than $0.15 per item!!!\u00a0 You can often get some excellent deals at Sav Mor&#8217;s Box Sale.\u00a0 I was hoping to stock up on snack items for our family since I will be traveling a little and I wanted to make sure there were plenty of easy snacks to take as well as\u00a0 meals that could be made quickly for our family.\u00a0 Our dining table was full once we unpacked the boxes!\u00a0 We even got some Organic \/ Whole Wheat food items for the family.\u00a0 We purchased two boxes at $7.00 each and the case of chips was $2.00 giving us our total of $16.00.<\/p>\n<p>Sav-Mor Groceries from the Saturday Sidewalk Box Sale:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>8 Bags &#8211; 18 oz Laura Lynn Restaurant Style Tortilla Chips (they sold these for $2.00 per case, we got 1 case)<\/li>\n<li>4 &#8211; 4 packs Vermont Organic Strawberry Banana Applesauce<\/li>\n<li>1 &#8211; 25 count Milkshake Straws<\/li>\n<li>1 &#8211; 4 oz Kettle Baked Potato Chips &#8211; BBQ Flavor<\/li>\n<li>2 &#8211; 26.5 oz Hunts Pasta Sauce<\/li>\n<li>1 &#8211; 14.5 oz Sliced Potatoes<\/li>\n<li>1 &#8211; 64 oz Laura Lynn Fruit Punch Juice<\/li>\n<li>1 &#8211; 3.5 oz Quaker Vanilla Creme Brulee Rice Snacks (Whole Wheat)<\/li>\n<li>2 &#8211; Annies Organic Alfredo Shells &amp; Cheddar<\/li>\n<li>1 &#8211; 4 pack Gerber Yogurt Blends<\/li>\n<li>2 &#8211; Roasted Chicken Gravy Packs<\/li>\n<li>1 &#8211; Roasted Turkey Gravy Pack<\/li>\n<li>6 &#8211; Simply Organic Alfredo Packs<\/li>\n<li>2 &#8211; Molly McButter Fat Free Natural Sprinkles<\/li>\n<li>2 &#8211; Laura Lynn Woven Wheats<\/li>\n<li>6 &#8211; Hamburger Helper Lasagna<\/li>\n<li>6 &#8211; Brach&#8217;s Candy Hearts<\/li>\n<li>1 &#8211; Pasta Roni Chicken<\/li>\n<li>2 &#8211; Mrs. Fields Rainbow Chocolate Chip Packages<\/li>\n<li>2 &#8211; Mrs. Fields Snickerdoodle Packages<\/li>\n<li>1 &#8211; 15.4 oz General Mills Total Cinnamon Crunch<\/li>\n<li>3 &#8211; 15.25 oz General Mills Total Blueberry Pomegranate<\/li>\n<li>1 &#8211; 16 pack Betty Crocker Fruit Shapes, Gushers, Rollups, By the Foot, Fruit Stickerz<\/li>\n<li>3 &#8211; Betty Crocker Fruit Rollups<\/li>\n<li>4 &#8211; Betty Crocker Fruit Stackerz<\/li>\n<li>1 &#8211; 10.5 oz Kraft Marshmallows (4 flavors)<\/li>\n<li>1 &#8211; 8 pack Chi-Chi&#8217;s Flour Tortilla&#8217;s<\/li>\n<li>8 &#8211; Land O&#8217; Lakes Caramel Hot Chocolate Packs<\/li>\n<li>1 &#8211; 9 oz Annie&#8217;s Natural Organic Dijon Mustard<\/li>\n<li>2 &#8211; 10 packs Propel Raspberry Lemonade<\/li>\n<li>13 &#8211; 4 packs Starkist Chunk Light Tuna (the sticker on the packages read $4.98 each and they didn&#8217;t expire until 2012, so that is a huge savings &#8211; it would normally cost us $64.74 to buy them)<\/li>\n<li>4 &#8211; 6 packs Quakers Simple Harvest Dark Chocolate Chunk (the sticker on the packages read $3.28 each &#8211; it would normally cost us $13.12  to buy them)<\/li>\n<li>5 &#8211; 6 packs Quakers Simple Harvest Trail Mix (the sticker on the packages read $3.28 each &#8211; it would normally cost us $16.40  to buy them)<\/li>\n<li>1 &#8211; Carr&#8217;s Whole Wheat Crackers<\/li>\n<li>1 &#8211; 8 pack Ocean Spray Oatmeal with Cranberries<\/li>\n<li>2 &#8211; Nutritious Living Hi-Lo with Strawberries<\/li>\n<li>3 &#8211; 14 oz Captain Crunch Peanut Butter Crunch<\/li>\n<li>1 &#8211; 16 oz Captain Crunch<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sav Mor has been doing their Box Sale for several years now.\u00a0 They will occasionally offer additional discounts as well.\u00a0 For example, last Saturday you could get a case of Tortilla Chips for $2.00 which meant you were getting the chips for 25 cents per bag. \u00a0 There is more information I want to share with you about how the sale works so\u00a0 I will be going into more details about the Sav-Mor Sidewalk Box Sale in a later post.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4869\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4869\" style=\"width: 398px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.blessingsmultiplied.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/P1060909c.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4869\" title=\"Groceries at CVS\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.blessingsmultiplied.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/P1060909c.jpg?resize=398%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"398\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blessingsmultiplied.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/P1060909c.jpg?w=398&amp;ssl=1 398w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blessingsmultiplied.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/P1060909c.jpg?resize=300%2C226&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 398px) 100vw, 398px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4869\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Groceries at CVS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Groceries from CVS:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>$2.85 at CVS for Kellogg&#8217;s Fruit Loops ($1.16 for the box), Kellogg&#8217;s, Rice Krispies ($1.16 for the box), and CVS Honey Wheat Pretzel Twists (of clearance for $0.49 cents)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Groceries from Bi-Lo (I didn&#8217;t have a chance to take a picture this week, but wanted to include our milk purchase):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>$6.04 at Bi-Lo for 2 gallons of Milk ($2.99 each)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I am excited to see us doing better on our Groceries $40 for 4 budget.\u00a0 This week we    spent  $24.89 on groceries so it was a pretty good week regarding saving extra grocery cash.\u00a0  We did  better this week because I a little extra time and went to the Sidewalk Box Sale at Sav-Mor.\u00a0 I was able to   stock up on a few extra items this week for the pantry.\u00a0 I am still trying to  work out all  the details of how to  make the budget most effective for  our family and I  think we need some  weeks have been easier than others.\u00a0 It was nice to share some of the items we picked up this week with some friends too!\u00a0 Love being able to get a great deal and share with others.\u00a0 We\u2019ll  see how next week goes, it should be interesting because my husband is in charge next week of the $40 grocery budget since I will be traveling!<\/p>\n<p>It is my goal to give you regular updates on this budget section so   you can    celebrate the good weeks with me and thump me on the bad   weeks!\u00a0 As    always you are welcomed to join the journey with me.\u00a0 I   would love to    hear your story and how you are doing too.\u00a0 The purpose   of our family  doing this it to watch our grocery spending while   allowing us to feed  our family,   enjoy life, share with others, and   yet stay on track with  our budget.<\/p>\n<p><em>Living on a Budget is a series of ways our family uses a budget      to  help keep us accountable with our finances.\u00a0 Life doesn\u2019t always   go    as  planned.\u00a0 We have used some of the ideas I will be sharing  for    years   while others are ones we are just starting to implement  as we    continue   finding ways to be creative and have fun with what  we have    been  given.\u00a0  Having a plan in place allows us the freedom  to be  smart   with  what we  have been given, get more creative when it  is a  tight   (week,  month, year  or a season) and when necessary live  a much  more   simplified  life.\u00a0 A  budget helps us stay on track so  we have  more   opportunities  to enjoy the  many blessings we have been  given as  well   as share what we  have with  others.\u00a0 There is so much  more to  life than   having all the  stuff.\u00a0 We  may not have the  newest or  greatest items   in our house, we  drive used  cars, and wear   hand-me-down   clothing\u2026..however, if our  family is taken  care of  and  have love for   each other and others we have  more than all  the  riches  in the world.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another great week doing Groceries $40 for 4. It was another busy week but I managed to break away this past Saturday morning to go to the Sav Mor Box Sale with the family. If you haven&#8217;t been before and you live in the Greenville area it is worth the time to stock up on food items. It felt great saving some of the grocery shopping cash this week while stocking up on some items for our pantry. Below are my grocery shopping adventures for the week! We bought 107 items and paid $16.00 total which means we spent less than $0.15 per item!!!\u00a0 You can often get some excellent deals at Sav Mor&#8217;s Box Sale.\u00a0 I was hoping to stock up on snack items for our family since I will be traveling a little and I wanted to make sure there were plenty of easy snacks to take as well as\u00a0 meals that could be made quickly for our family.\u00a0 Our dining table was full once we unpacked the boxes!\u00a0 We even got some Organic \/ Whole Wheat food items for the family.\u00a0 We purchased two boxes at $7.00 each and the case of chips was $2.00 giving us our total of $16.00. Sav-Mor Groceries from the Saturday Sidewalk Box Sale: 8 Bags &#8211; 18 oz Laura Lynn Restaurant Style Tortilla Chips (they sold these for $2.00 per case, we got 1 case) 4 &#8211; 4 packs Vermont Organic Strawberry Banana Applesauce 1 &#8211; 25 count Milkshake Straws 1 &#8211; 4 oz Kettle Baked Potato Chips &#8211; BBQ Flavor 2 &#8211; 26.5 oz Hunts Pasta Sauce 1 &#8211; 14.5 oz Sliced Potatoes 1 &#8211; 64 oz Laura Lynn Fruit Punch Juice 1 &#8211; 3.5 oz Quaker Vanilla Creme Brulee Rice Snacks (Whole Wheat) 2 &#8211; Annies Organic Alfredo Shells &amp; Cheddar 1 &#8211; 4 pack Gerber Yogurt Blends 2 &#8211; Roasted Chicken Gravy Packs 1 &#8211; Roasted Turkey Gravy Pack 6 &#8211; Simply Organic Alfredo Packs 2 &#8211; Molly McButter Fat Free Natural Sprinkles 2 &#8211; Laura Lynn Woven Wheats 6 &#8211; Hamburger Helper Lasagna 6 &#8211; Brach&#8217;s Candy Hearts 1 &#8211; Pasta Roni Chicken 2 &#8211; Mrs. Fields Rainbow Chocolate Chip Packages 2 &#8211; Mrs. Fields Snickerdoodle Packages 1 &#8211; 15.4 oz General Mills Total Cinnamon Crunch 3 &#8211; 15.25 oz General Mills Total Blueberry Pomegranate 1 &#8211; 16 pack Betty Crocker Fruit Shapes, Gushers, Rollups, By the Foot, Fruit Stickerz 3 &#8211; Betty Crocker Fruit Rollups 4 &#8211; Betty Crocker Fruit Stackerz 1 &#8211; 10.5 oz Kraft Marshmallows (4 flavors) 1 &#8211; 8 pack Chi-Chi&#8217;s Flour Tortilla&#8217;s 8 &#8211; Land O&#8217; Lakes Caramel Hot Chocolate Packs 1 &#8211; 9 oz Annie&#8217;s Natural Organic Dijon Mustard 2 &#8211; 10 packs Propel Raspberry Lemonade 13 &#8211; 4 packs Starkist Chunk Light Tuna (the sticker on the packages read $4.98 each and they didn&#8217;t expire until 2012, so that is a huge savings &#8211; it would normally cost us $64.74 to buy them) 4 &#8211; 6 packs Quakers Simple Harvest Dark Chocolate Chunk (the sticker on the packages read $3.28 each &#8211; it would normally cost us $13.12 to buy them) 5 &#8211; 6 packs Quakers Simple Harvest Trail Mix (the sticker on the packages read $3.28 each &#8211; it would normally cost us $16.40 to buy them) 1 &#8211; Carr&#8217;s Whole Wheat Crackers 1 &#8211; 8 pack Ocean Spray Oatmeal with Cranberries 2 &#8211; Nutritious Living Hi-Lo with Strawberries 3 &#8211; 14 oz Captain Crunch Peanut Butter Crunch 1 &#8211; 16 oz Captain Crunch Sav Mor has been doing their Box Sale for several years now.\u00a0 They will occasionally offer additional discounts as well.\u00a0 For example, last Saturday you could get a case of Tortilla Chips for $2.00 which meant you were getting the chips for 25 cents per bag. \u00a0 There is more information I want to share with you about how the sale works so\u00a0 I will be going into more details about the Sav-Mor Sidewalk Box Sale in a later post. Groceries from CVS: $2.85 at CVS for Kellogg&#8217;s Fruit Loops ($1.16 for the box), Kellogg&#8217;s, Rice Krispies ($1.16 for the box), and CVS Honey Wheat Pretzel Twists (of clearance for $0.49 cents) Groceries from Bi-Lo (I didn&#8217;t have a chance to take a picture this week, but wanted to include our milk purchase): $6.04 at Bi-Lo for 2 gallons of Milk ($2.99 each) I am excited to see us doing better on our Groceries $40 for 4 budget.\u00a0 This week we spent $24.89 on groceries so it was a pretty good week regarding saving extra grocery cash.\u00a0 We did better this week because I a little extra time and went to the Sidewalk Box Sale at Sav-Mor.\u00a0 I was able to stock up on a few extra items this week for the pantry.\u00a0 I am still trying to work out all the details of how to make the budget most effective for our family and I think we need some weeks have been easier than others.\u00a0 It was nice to share some of the items we picked up this week with some friends too!\u00a0 Love being able to get a great deal and share with others.\u00a0 We\u2019ll see how next week goes, it should be interesting because my husband is in charge next week of the $40 grocery budget since I will be traveling! It is my goal to give you regular updates on this budget section so you can celebrate the good weeks with me and thump me on the bad weeks!\u00a0 As always you are welcomed to join the journey with me.\u00a0 I would love to hear your story and how you are doing too.\u00a0 The purpose of our family doing this it to watch our grocery spending while allowing us to feed our family, enjoy life, share with others, and yet stay on track with our budget. Living on a Budget is a series of ways our family uses a budget to help keep us accountable with our finances.\u00a0 Life doesn\u2019t always go as planned.\u00a0 We have used some of the ideas I will be sharing for years while others are ones we are just starting to implement as we continue finding ways to be creative and have fun with what we have been given.\u00a0 Having a plan in place allows us the freedom to be smart with what we have been given, get more creative when it is a tight (week, month, year or a season) and when necessary live a much more simplified life.\u00a0 A budget helps us stay on track so we have more opportunities to enjoy the many blessings we have been given as well as share what we have with others.\u00a0 There is so much more to life than having all the stuff.\u00a0 We may not have the newest or greatest items in our house, we drive used cars, and wear hand-me-down clothing\u2026..however, if our family is taken care of and have love for each other and others we have more than all the riches in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[54,56,61,8,10,18,82,47],"tags":[1260,1712,2339,3024,3813,4071,4203,5073,5417,5690,8284,10075,10906,10979,13635,13811,13839,14266,14334,16469,17075,17323,17741,18944,20389,20778,20799,21463,22479,22617],"class_list":["post-4842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget","category-coupons","category-deals","category-financial","category-freebies","category-living-on-a-budget","category-recipe","category-weekly-ads","tag-annies","tag-banana-box","tag-betty-crocker","tag-box-sale","tag-cereal","tag-chi-chi","tag-chips","tag-coupons","tag-cvs","tag-deals","tag-food","tag-general-mills","tag-greenville","tag-groceries","tag-juice","tag-kelloggs","tag-kettle","tag-kraft","tag-land-o-lakes","tag-mrs-fields","tag-oatmeal","tag-organic","tag-pantry","tag-quaker","tag-sav-mor","tag-savings","tag-sc","tag-sidewalk","tag-starkist","tag-stock-up"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcnfwQ-1g6","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blessingsmultiplied.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blessingsmultiplied.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blessingsmultiplied.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blessingsmultiplied.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blessingsmultiplied.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blessingsmultiplied.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blessingsmultiplied.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blessingsmultiplied.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blessingsmultiplied.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}