I had an appointment at 11:00am. On the way, I stopped at the P.O. to mail something that I had to send certified. After the appointment, I went to Trader Joe’s. We have had one in the area about 45 minutes from me. It was not worth it to me to drive that far to go there. Now we have a new one which is only 20 minutes away and was about half a mile down the road from my appointment. I used to shop at Trader Joe’s when we lived in AZ. I missed it. The store was packed but I was able to get a few things that I needed or wanted.
They had beautiful mini peppers($3.49) which were a need. We ate all of our peppers last month in stir fry. Hubby loves cinnamon raisin bread ($4.99) and I love their ciabata rolls( $1.99) because they are so soft.
I had not seen wild caught salmon this cheap and I had none left. This piece which will make me about 3 meals was $9.37. The BabyBels were $3.69 and are a great snack for me.
Lastly, Hubby loves chocolate chunk cookies so I got a bag of the chunks($3.99) to make them homemade for him. I also got him some dark chocolate covered raisins($6.99) and some dark chocolate mint creams($4.49) which are Valentine’s gifts. I had to hide the raisins quickly before I took my picture. If Hubby saw them, he would be into them. My total for all was $ 40.00. I was taxed at 8.75% on the dark chocolates because the tax in this town is high. This is what happens when we barely shopped last month. You want some goodies!
On the way home, I stopped at Niagara Produce and got 3 more dozen eggs because they were on sale again for $.99 a dozen. We eat a lot of eggs here. I used up 13 eggs on Sunday for my family.
I had planned on going to Walmart and Aldi’s but I was beat so I came home. Hubby had told me that if I was hungry when I was out to just stop and get some food. When I got home at 1:30pm, I realized that I had not eaten all day. So I made a turkey sandwich and that was a lot cheaper than eating out.
After lunch, I gathered all of my receipts to log them into our expenses in our budget and to scan them into Fetch. Then I just watched a few You Tube videos while I rested my back. My arthritis in my back is not good in this cold weather.
For dinner, Hubby wanted Chinese food from our favorite take out place. When I went to place the order, I realized they are not open on Monday. So we had soup instead. Tonight we will get Chinese food.
Monday nights I chat with my sister who lives almost on the PA border. She and my nephew were in a bad car accident on Saturday because my nephew lost control hitting some ice on a bridge. Fortunately, neither one of them was hurt. There was no other car involved. But their car is totaled. So they will be car shopping today. New cars are so expensive but they don’t trust used cars. I had every intention of posting this last night but I was just too tired at 8pm when I got off the phone and went directly to bed.
After much research, I finally figured out how to fix the photos this morning. So as you can see they are back. Thanks for your patience. It was so frustrating for me.
I will be going out today to Top’s( senior discount 6% off day). I only need a few things. The Fanta is on a great sale so I will be stocking on that. I also need to get a few things at Walmart that are cheaper than Top’s. I will be skipping Aldi’s because all I was going to do was get some dark chocolate and I got it at Trader Joe’s.
Brunch today will be eggs and cinnamon toast.
Have you gotten any great sale items this week?