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 I went grocery shopping at a local store the other day. Most times I shop at Aldis, but the only reason I was shopping at this particular store was because I had a $50 gift card. The gift cards were given to all employees at his work by the union. Nice gift huh?

So, I figured I would use the $50 to stock up on things. They had ground beef on sale for $1.99 a pound when you bought 4 pounds or more. I think I bought around 5 pounds. I used some of it to make burgers for dinner that night and the rest went into making up meatballs to cook and freeze. All total, I went $8 over the amount of the gift card. . So, our once a month shopping thing didn’t work great this month. That’s ok, because we also had to pick up coffee and pancake mix last week.

So here’s what I bought with our gift card:
2 cans of Green Giant corn                                     1.34
Kraft tarter sauce                                                    1.85
Hershey dark chocolate chips                                 1.67
2 boxes of Special K with berries                            5.98
Ritz crackers                                                             2.50
2 jars Jif Peanut butter                                            4.16
Garlic salt                                                                 1.09
5 pounds flour                                                          1.99
Ronzoni pasta                                                          .39 (on sale $1.39 - $1 coupon)
4 jars Francesco Rinaldi spaghetti sauce                 4.96
150 Plates                                                                 3.91
10 pounds sugar                                                       4.98
egg noodles                                                               1.29
2 sets of 3 foil pans (for giving out goodies)             2.66
bananas                                                                     1.24
Ground beef                                                               8.96
1 pound of beef for stew                                           2.69
1 pound of mozzarella                                               3.49

According to the receipt I saved $15.05 between sales and my sole coupon. Thank goodness for Aldis, that’s all I can say! There is no way I would be able to feed my family of 5 on about $50 a week if I had to shop elsewhere!