What did $54 get us today?

$60-6=$54 aka our budget

We withdrew the cash we needed, and once we made our first purchase and broke one of these bills, I put away $6 to make sure we stayed in our $54 budget.

I felt a fair bit of anxiety holding this cash and knowing this was it. Things were gettin' real now.

The weather was miserable and kind of set the mood, making it even harder to muster excitement for this shop. I'll end my complaints there as we also had the comfort of a co-op car I had booked to get us around to all our planned locations in a few hours. A luxury on a day like this.

The shop is now done and here's what we've got:

The epic food find was a 10 lb bag of potatoes for $1.99! The journey to multiple grocery stores to get everything on our list under budget was worth it. My spirits were lifted after our first 2 stops and we had all of our produce, beans, lentils, chick peas for $18.80. 

The full list of acquired goods (will update with the amounts, etc in the morn):

Potatoes          Lentils

Carrots            Beans

Cabbage         Chick peas

Celery             Rice

Garlic             Pasta

Onions            Flour            

Apples            Oats

Bananas          Sugar

Raisins            Eggs

Crackers         Peanut butter

Cinnamon      Yeast 

Margarine

Vegetable stock  

Canned tomatoes

Milk (not pictured)

Well, that's what we've got to get us through. More tomorrow on what we're going to do with it.