Grocery Challenge Update

I'm trying to get my grocery budget under control, and up until now, I have not been successful. Not at all! But if I hope to make any dent at all in my debt, I have to hunker down and get "gazelle intense," as Mr. Dave Ramsey would put it. So my goal for these last 2 weeks (from one paycheck to the next) has been to keep my grocery budget at $125. Let's see what happened:

After my main shopping day I had $39.34 left over. This was to cover milk and sales that were too good to pass up the following week. On June 16, I spent $16.10 at Krogers; June 23, $9.40 at Krogers; and on June 25 I spent $11.10 at Wal-Mart. Grand total: $36.60! That even gives me $2.74 left in my food budget! The grand total would have been about $4 less if Wal-Mart had accepted my internet Kraft coupons, but still.....

Wow! I did it! I am totally amazed that I kept under my budget amount. I'm definitely aiming for this again during the budget period that starts tomorrow. We are going to Spirit Song at Kings Island for 3 days during this time and are planning to take a lot of our food with us, so I will have to decide whether that will come from the food budget or the entertainment budget - probably a bit of both - so that will add to the challenge. In any event, it's a good feeling to know that for at least one 2-week period, I kept to the budget! Wooo hooo! ;-)