No Spend September Update

Another weekend, another shopping trip!

Yesterday, I headed to Costco and spent the majority of our remaining money for the first half of September. I’m not too concerned because we are almost half way through the month and I shouldn’t need to go grocery shopping before next weekend.

I stocked up on a lot of staples during my shopping trip like oatmeal, eggs, and yogurt; and I also bought weekly perishables like bread, milk, and fruit. A couple of the items I bought were for our monthly/weekly meal plan: sandwich rolls and tortillas. The last thing I bought was a splurge for dinner last night: ribs! I paid $30.00 for 10 pounds, or 3 racks, of ribs. We will get 2 full meals for our family out of this, and 2 lunches. This was paid for out of our normal No Spend September grocery budget.

On to the actual numbers. Before this trip, we had $148.39 remaining from our first half of the month budget, or $348.39. Our total at Costco was $108.68. That leaves us with $39.71 for the first half of the month’s budget, or $239.71 total left in our grocery budget for the month of No Spend September. I’m feeling pretty good about where we are right now.

We will only need to buy perishables and a few things based on our meal plan for the rest of the month. We are good on meat and I don’t foresee us needing to buy many more staples this month. I’m really hoping we can stay on track with our grocery budget this month and continue throwing all our extra money towards debt repayment!