What We Spent, January 30 - February 26

We had a short budget month this time ‘round: Just 28 days.  Don’t you just love that about February?  I do.  :)

Our grocery budget was $150.00 for the month and we came in under budget.  That’s always a good feeling!

We’ve been living mostly out of our pantry and deep freeze since mid-December so the pantry’s looking a lot more empty than it once did.  Still, we have plenty of canned fruit, some home-canned vegetables, and home-canned salmon and turkey. There are baking supplies left and still some meat in the deep freeze so I confess I’m feeling rather proud.  It took a lot of work and planning to stock the pantry and it’s stood us in very good stead.

Here’s a breakdown of the groceries we purchased between January 30 and February 26.

Jan. 31/12	750 ml/25.36 ounces yogurt	2.59
	750 ml/25.36 ounces cottage cheese	3.99
	4 litres/4.23 quarts 2% milk	4.47
	1 kg/2.2 lbs salt	1.07
	.32 kg/.71 lbs crimini mushrooms	2.14
	romaine	1.49
	yams	3.44
Feb. 4	.6 kg/1.32 lbs liver	1.96
	.57 kg/1.26 lbs hot house tomatoes	1.58
Feb. 6	.82 kg/1.8 lb red cabbage	1.39
Feb. 7	10 kg/22 lbs all purpose flour	6.89
	3 - 340 gram/12 ounce tins corned beef	7.99
	2 kg/4.4 lbs peanut butter	7.39
	510 gr/18 oz black tea	5.95
	Pre-payment for Good Food Box	20.00
Feb. 9	800 gr/1.76 lbs sharp cheddar	7.95
	5 avocados	2.96
Feb. 13	.33 kg/.72 lbs tomatoes	0.93
Feb. 14	Fish sticks (box of 28)	4.97
	396 ml/13.36 oz baked beans	1.25
Feb. 17	1.15 kg/2.54 lbs bananas	1.98
	2 litres/2.12 quarts 2% milk	3.25
	1 red onion	0.51
Feb. 19	.83 kg/1.83 lbs tomatoes	2.32
	1 japeno pepper (.035 kg)	0.14
	1 lime	0.33
	750 ml/25.36 oz. cottage cheese	3.99
Feb. 20	1.125 kg/2.48 lbs red cabbage	1.71
	1.385 kg/3.05 lbs green cabbage	1.80
Total		106.43

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