November Grocery Totals (only edible items)


Walmart  $47.06  48 oz Crisco, 4 chicken stock cartons, rice pudding, light cream, turnips, lactose free milk, 4 pounds of butter

Walmart $101.01 All of these items had either an Ibotta offer or a Walmart+ offer.  Cinnabon Cinnamon Roll K cups, 80 oz Skippy, 42 oz 1 Minute Oats, can Pearls olives, 2.25# Tyson lightly breaded chicken breast tenders, 2 lb Jimmy Dean Pork Sausage Roll, Bigelow Lemon Ginger Tea, Boursin Garlic and Fine Herbs Cheese, Innoasian General Tso's Chicken (DH enjoyed this) 1.5# Buffalo Boneless Chicken, No Yolks Noodles, Kellogg's club crackers, 1.5# ground pork, 38 oz ketchup, 20 oz Wonder Bread, Chobani Extra Creamy Organic Oatmilk, Silk Whole Fat Milk. 

Walmart $43.15  Most of these items had Ibotta offers 3 lbs Wright Bacon, 9.25 oz Fritos, 12 pk english muffins, 18 ct eggs, 5 oz Grated Parmesan, 12 oz Mexican Cheese, 8 oz Cabot Extra Creamy Sea Salted Butter

Walmart FREE (gift cards from Card points and Ibotta deals) 23 lb Butterball, OS Cranberry Sauce, Stove Top Stuffing, 20 oz Crushed Pineapple, Two 18 oz Heinz gravy, Two 48 oz chicken stock, two 32 oz low sodium Chicken broth, Krusteaz Gluten Free Honey Cornbread, Silk Next Milk.  More ibotta kickback deals. 

BJs  $107.77  72 oz toll house morsels, Saltines, 4 lbs frozen broccoli, Mini Pretzels, Tabasco, 1.5# Deli Turkey Breast, 64 oz Hellmanns Mayo, 6 pk OS Cranberry Sauce, 12 Pk Del Monte Corn, 12 Pk Tomato Soup, 3 pack Simply Lemonade, Pillsbury Pie Crust, 2.5# Butterball Farm to Family Ground Turkey, 32 Crescent Rolls, 

Aldi  $124.05     An assortment (10 pkgs) of German cakes and cookies to hide for Christmas.  Special Stollen (Christmas) Gluten Free Wraps and Plain Bagels, 2 lbs deli turkey breast, 2 lemonade, LOL cinnamon butter, 2 Spreadable butter with olive oil, 2 bags chips, Onion Dip, 2# Cane Sugar, 5 cans northern beans, 5 cans cannellini beans and ground dijon mustard. 

Stop and Shop $3.47 oop (DH employer gave a gift card and $5 in grocery dollars)  10 lbs of potatoes, 1 lb celery, 3 lbs onion, Bunch of Bananas, 3 pounds mandarin oranges, 2 rutabaga, Udi's raisin gluten free bagels, bottle of Italian dressing. 

Aldi $54.01 4 lb oranges, 2 lb celery, 12 oz cranberries, 32 oz heavy cream, 32 oz liquid eggwhites, 1/2 gallon lactose free milk, 12 lbs of butter. 

BJs  $32.97 Butterball turkey (FREE due to previous purchase of $150.00)  2 lbs baby carrots,  2 LOL half and half, 3# sweet potatoes, 3 lb butter, 2 lb sour cream, 1 lb shallots, 1.75# fresh asparagus, 1.75# fresh ginger, 2 lb fresh brussel sprouts. 

Target $28.51  Six 12 packs of soda various styles and 1 Stok cold brew

Aldi $35.26 4 jars Gravy, 2 cans Condensed milk, 2 lb pork sausage roll, Cinn Rolls, Cupcakes, Celery and 3 lb mushrooms. 

BJ's $43.85 as the pie crust was a fail for Thanksgiving.  8 pillsbury pie crusts, cinnamon rolls, blueberry muffins, chocolate chip cookies.  

Big Y $39.71  Potato Bread, 2 Hormel Pork Filet, 2 Avodaco, Whipped Topping, Lemonade and OJ

$660.82    2 turkeys and 16 lbs of butter in the freezer plus lots of healthy items in the fridge and pantry.  Our thanksgiving meal was a locally raised prepurchased turkey. 

As I am now feeding 3 adults 75 years and over, plus myself, sister and DH (between ages 50-60) I am comfortable with this total.  Various dietary needs are being covered, and I am still way below what the thrifty food plan for October 2022 according to the USDA which is $1475.20.  Unbelievable how high this number is.  

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