Lisa and I did our big, monthly shopping trip Tuesday. We also worked in a business lunch and afternoon tea to celebrate a dear relative’s 80th birthday. It was a full day but lots of fun.
Here is a picture of my grocery haul:
We got to town around 8 p.m. and David met me for dinner. We didn’t get home until nearly 10 p.m. so I just stuffed everything away as quickly as possible. Wednesday I decided to get it all organized. My pantry was sorely in need of help:
Upper cabinet of pantry (before)
Lower pantry cabinet – top drawer (before)
(before)
I took everything out, wiped out the shelves, tossed the expired stuff and reorganized. Doesn’t this look better?:
The bottom drawer/pullout is where I keep various dried beans, peas, some baking supplies in jars.
The top drawer/pullout holds crackers, rice and various pasta/noodles:
While I was in the mood, I went ahead and cleaned out the spice cabinet, too. I wish I had done so before this shopping trip. If I had, I wouldn’t have bought more lemon pepper but I would have bought basil. At least now I know what I have.
As you can see, our fridge is full!
Here is the list of what I bought:
Homeland:
- organic baby spinach
- organic spring greens
- red pepper jelly
- Hellman’s mayonnaise
- Bonne Maman cherry preserves
- Bonne Maman apricot preserves
- Allegra (my allergies are in full force!)
Total: $30.41
Dodson’s:
- raw honey
- multigrain squarefuls cereal
- blueberry walnut cereal
- whole O’s cereal
- artichoke hearts
- rice
- coconut milk creamer (4)
- cream cheese (2)
- crackers (2)
- Tillamook sharp cheddar
- sweet red chili sauce
- fish sauce
- red curry paste
- stir fry noodles
- diced green chilies (2)
- non fat dried milk
- dark chocolate raspberry orange candy bar
- dark chocolate coconut cream candy bar
- garlic
Total: $96.60
Natural Grocers:
- bananas
- carrots 5#
- Applegate Farms breakfast sausage links
- greeting cards (2)
- liquid lecithin
- ice
- sharp cheddar (2)
- colby cheese (4)
- muenster cheese (2)
- pepper jack cheese (1)
- mozzarella (1)
- maraschino cherries
Total: $74.40
Whole Foods:
- garlic salt (bulk)
- course black pepper (bulk)
- lemon pepper (bulk)
- Herbes de Provence (bulk)
- sparkling lime water (for ride home)
- San Pellegrino water (2)
- flour tortillas (2)
- dried cranberries
- cookies
- cappellini past (2)
- ketchup
- honey puffs cereal
- marshmallow oaties cereal
- raisin bran (3)
- hand soap refill
- bar soap (patchouli)
- sliced ham
- sliced colby cheese
- pork chops
- baguette
- bananas
- satsumas
- aged cheddar
- pastry
- lemon
- lime
- onions
- artichokes
- zucchini
- iceberg lettuce
- red bell peppers
- green bell peppers
- cabbage
- asparagus
- tomatoes
- russet potatoes
- butter
Total: $155.63
Oklahoma Food Coop:
- eggs (1 dozen)
- cheese
- free range whole chicken
Total: $36.67
Azure Standard (will pick up next week):
- chicken broth – 32 oz. (4)
- chicken broth – 8 oz. (package of 4)
- bulk coconut (2.5 pounds)
- 5 gallon plastic pail and gamma lid (for food storage)
- raisins (1 pound)
- brown sugar
- organic flour (10 pounds)
- powdered chicken flavored broth
- potatoes (5#)
Total: $66.89
Grand Total: $460.60
That total seemed high until I remembered that I hadn’t done a monthly shop since the first part of January. We will be in New Orleans 11 days in April so I won’t shop again until May. Plus, I really need to start using up the food in my freezer in order to have room to put up summer produce.
Sweet Tea says
March 21, 2014 at 10:32 pmFew things prettier to my eyes than a full, organized pantry. Good job! I always find it interesting to see what people put into there shopping cart. LOL. I enjoyed your post!
Deanna Piercy says
March 28, 2014 at 2:06 pmI'm exactly the same way. Glad to know others are nosy, er, curious too!