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October 13th, 2012 at 05:18 am

I did my big shopping tonight. It's been a while since I've needed to go to Costco for anything other than gas. Even so, I did pretty well, I think. I spent $118.40 ($3.72 of which was tax). I got 4 cases of tomato sauce, 1 case of chili, 1 case of cream of mushroom soup (for DH, I won't touch it with a ten foot pole), cheese, organic pizza snacks, toilet paper, and quart and gallon size freezer bags.

The reason I bought tomato sauce is that the kiddos don't like the home canned straight, but they'll eat it one can home canned mixed with one can store bought. I think next time I can tomato sauce I should make it spaghetti sauce with sugar and seasonings in it. It's just too tomatoey for them. Since I only canned enough for about half the year, these 48 cans should do me for the year.

I also bought a few convenience items, DH's soup, some chili and the pizza snacks. As much as I'd like to be 100% from scratch all of the time, there are days when I just get too sick and I just want to be able to open a can or have the kids open their own can of something. Until I start canning my own homemade soup that is something I have determined to live with.

After grocery shopping we got gas there, but I can't find what I did with the receipt. I'm pretty sure it was $70 or so since the tank was empty and gas was at $3.92 per gallon. When it shows up on my AMEX I'll report the amount. If I remember.

Afterwards we went to Haggen and I got popcorn, beef hot dogs (for DH), tortillas, bread (still a little too sick to be baking my own), milk, orange juice, onions, yogurt, nasal spray, and cauliflower. Oh, and 3 12 packs of Pepsi Throwback (for DH). I spent $77.63 there.

Again, a couple of convenience items and the very unnecessary soda, unless you consider marital harmony worth that $11 for 36 cans and I do. DH is 90% on board with the organic, sustainable eating, but there are a few things I don't see him (or me) completely eliminating. Progress, not perfection.

Also spent $8.01 for 2 prescriptions today. We shouldn't have to spend anymore money for a week now, except perhaps for milk. That'll be nice. Tomorrow I should be up for cooking again. The worst of the cold seems to have passed.

3 Responses to “Big Shop”

  1. Jerry Says:
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    I feel the same way about cream of mushroom soup... some people (like your DH, apparently) really like it, but the consistency leads me to feel all queasy. The only insurance my wife has of getting me to eat mushroom soup is to make it herself, because she manages to make it feel less like wallpaper paste. Wink Jerry

  2. Joan.of.the.Arch Says:
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    Many years ago (before there were plastic-lined metal cans) I read that companies who can tomato sauces in glass jars began to add a flavoring to it that most people who were accustomed to eating tomato products from metal cans missed. They missed the slight bit of metal taste!...Now, especially families who've made the choice not to buy the plastic-lined canned products may be still accustomed to a slight metallic taste so that home canned or fresh sauces seem like they are just missing something. Weird, eh?

  3. snafu Says:
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    I hope you're feeling better. Have you been tracking your sick days on a calendar? Is there an emerging pattern? Do you typically have so many sick days each year? Have you identified the underlying cause?

    I was surprised to see canned creme soup on your list. All creme soups are significantly cheaper, much tastier when homemade and requires hardly any effort from roux to complete. There are so many health benefits from real mushrooms. I'm guessing DH is wanting to save you work for I'm certain he would prefer the real thing. Depending on what's added it's the base for many different sauces for pasta, rice and potatoes.

    If I were using homemade tomato sauce, I think I'd dilute it 1/4 jar to one can of commercilly prepared sauce like Mamma Bravo adding a spoonful of sugar and some typical Italian spices like basil, oregeno thyme & garlic.

    Gas here in the midst of the oil patch [jacks are pumping oil out of the ground right at the airport and refineries are less than an hour from city limits] retails at about $ 4.50 a USA gallon but 48 cents a gallon pays for our medical system eliminating the need for co pays and resultant paperwork. We had our card to the receptionist and by the end of the day all charges for all patients are processed electronically in a one payer system.

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