Grocery Spending and Menu Plan | The Birthday Shopping Trip

As it happened, our weekly shopping trip landed on Zoe’s birthday. Fortunately, she doesn’t mind grocery shopping, so she wasn’t at all upset about this turn of events. 😉

We made a birthday cake first…

…and then we headed out to go shopping. Here’s what we bought.

The kids wanted me to show you what we found at Goodwill….a stuffed Peep! It was $1, and we decided that it should belong to Zoe, since it was her birthday.

At Aldi, I spent $45.73 and at Weis I spent $29.51. That means my total for the week is $75.24…yay!

Saturday

• Tonight is the night for our make-up date night. You may remember that we were supposed to have one of these about a month ago, but (big surprise!) it snowed. Just enough to make it necessary to cancel the date night. But tonight we are trying again, and no snow is forecast! Yay! (and large thanks to my brother and sister-in-law, who gave us a restaurant gift card + babysitting at Christmastime).

Sunday

• We’re visiting my in-laws for a multi-birthday celebration (we have 4 birthdays at the end of February and 3 in March, so we do one February get-together and one March get-together). I’m bringing rolls, which is both predictable and wonderful. Baking bread is like breathing to me, so I’m always happy when it’s the item I’m asked to bring!

Monday

• Shrimp and Ravioli in Pink Sauce
• green salad
• Whole Wheat Rolls

Tuesday

• Chicken Wraps
• fruit salad
• potato chips

Wednesday

• Creamy Chicken and Mushroom Soup
• green salad
• cheese buns

Thursday

• Seafood Subs
• grapefruit
• corn

Friday

• Fajitas with Shrimp, Chicken, Onions, and Red Peppers (and of course, tortillas, cheese, sour cream, and cilantro…yum!
• fruit salad