Crazy Target trip

Because I've been working about 22 hours a week in addition to school, doctors' appointments and household duties... I have not done any shopping. My mother-in-law and I started planning Thanksgiving and I realized I had to get something into the house before we all starved to death.

I exaggerate but only slightly.

So, since I worked until 5:30 last night, my family and I walked through the store and did some shopping. There is way more processed crap in this list than usual, but it's Target. I did the best I could. Keep in mind that including this trip, we spent about $150 on groceries thus far in November and we've spent about $175 on eating out. That figure is high because we've been trying to change some routines and it's effected our planning/budget.

The list, prices regular prices with my discounts subtracted at the end:

• shoelaces, $1.99
• Tortilla chips with flax seed, $2.69
• potato chips, two bags at $2.69 each
• the giant container of cheeseballs, $4.99
• JIF Peanut Butter, $4.39
• funky peanut butter my husband picked out, $1.77
•  Dole salad $1.34
• some Market Pantry product I can't remember $3.99
• three regular sized cans of hunts sauce, 69 cents each
• Archer Farms buffalo blue cheese dip, $2.69
• 24 ounces of Market Pantry medium salsa, $2.29
• Something Reese? 99 cents
• Market Pantry rice cereal, $2.34
• New England Blueberry Cobbler coffee, $4.99
• Archer Farms Pumpkin Spice coffee, $6.99 (not impressed with the flavor, never again)
• Tazo Rose tea, $3.29
• Battered fish fillets, $3.99
• Archer Farm multigrain bread, $2.89
• marshmallows, 96 cents
• 1 lb strawberries, 2.99
• 4 small lemons, $1
• Green Giant vegetables, one almond and green bean, one broccoli and cheese sauce, $1.27 and $1.38
• Archer Farms steam in bag broccoli florets $2.29
• Old Orchard Apple Raspberry juice concentrate, $1.17
• Market Pantry Apple Juice concentrate, 97 cents
• whole milk, half gallon, $1.94
• Silk Very Vanilla, half gallon, $2.69
• Half and Half $1.19
• two containers of heavy cream, $1.99 each
• frozen Archer Farms crème brûlée, $5.29
• Morningstar meat analogs: one bacon, two breakfast patties, one chik'n nugget, one buffalo wing, $3.39 each
• Tom's of Maine Sensitive toothpaste $3.69
• Five pack of protein bars, $3.99
• Up Aluminum Foil, a GIGANTIC role, $6.39
• cat litter, 20 pounds, $7.89
• Archer Farms fruit bars and granola bars, 3 boxes at 2.50 each minus $1 off coupon

 $131.41
minus 15% (10% employee discount and 5% red card) $113.04

Looking at this list, I'm a tad mad at myself for not doing an Aldi run and saving another $10 or so off some of the items on this list. Live and learn.