Shopping

Ah, the lovely snowing weather... We load the family into the car and head to the gas station and the warehouse club. This is my first trip to any store since my husband's trip before Thanksgiving... So... We spent $172. What'd we get?

• 1 pound organic spring mix (primarily for the tortoise) $3.98
  
• The Never Ending Story on DVD, $4.86
• Adam & Eve 100 % juice 6.75 ounce juice boxes, 36 boxes (for school), $8.20
• Spinach & Asiago Chicken sausage 3 lbs for $11.97 (selected because of the vitamin A content. The addition of spinach gives it some green vegetable presence)
  
• Cat litter, 35 lbs for $10.74
• Hunts Tomato sauce, 12 15-ounce cans, $6.98 (not convinced the generic wouldn't be cheaper, but for convenience...)
• Land O Lakes cocoa, 42 packages of seven different flavors, $11.28 (That should last the winter)
• Six pounds of baking soda, $6.16 (for cleaning)
• 1 gallon vinegar, $2.48 (again, think I could find it cheaper elsewhere, but I never remember to look... so... for cleaning)
• The HUGE pump of French Vanilla coffeemate, the equivalent of 3oo of those single serving tubs, $9.88
• Six pounds of penne rigate $4.88
• 4 lbs of frozen cheese ravioli, $8.87 (the school wanted more than $9 for 3 lbs as part of their 'Market Day' fundraiser
• 3 lbs of frozen blueberries, $5.68
• 16 big old vegan Boca Burgers, $9.86
• American brie, $5.46, for my husband's Christmas party at the office
• 2 bricks, 2 pounds each, of Land of Lands extra sharp cheddar cheese, $5.56 each
• Eggplant cutlets, breaded but unseasoned, 3 lbs
• Cascade dishwasher liquid, 10 lbs, $8.94
• 10 boxes of Kleenex, $12.98 (in this house, we need tissues by the case)
• 36 double rolls of Quilted Northern, 286 sheets a roll, $16.88 (Now, the Member's Mark generic brand was only $14.88, but there was only 200 sheets on each of their rolls) The Northern had 10,296 sheets. The Member's Mark only 7,200. That's 41 cents a roll versus 46 cents a roll, with an extra 86 sheets on the more expensive roll. That's almost 1/3 more toilet paper for a nickel!