Today has been a productive day, and I really love producitve days. Not crazy busy, just steady & getting stuff crossed off of my ‘to do’ list.
I finished 2 custom orders from my sewing list today, balanced our budget, placed an order for sewing supplies (nothing fun, just zippers & interfacings), baked myself some delicious banana & chocolate chip muffins, and i’m currently working on laundry.
Yum!!
I was going to try to figure out some of our mortgage stuff for our lump sum payment, but I can’t seem find where I wrote down our info. It looks like i’m going to have to call the bank again for that tomorrow. I have no idea what I did with it.. i’m thinking I probably tore the page out of my notebook absentmindedly and recycled it with a handful of other notes… oops! 😬 It’s kind of typical of me, I don’t lose stuff, I toss it. My husband will not be surprised.. lol!
I have a few things left on my ‘to do’ list to accomplish then i’m done for the day. I think i’m going to get some reading in and then watch another episode of “The Chosen” tonight. I watched the first episode last night and it’s really well done!
I think that’s about it for me today! I hope everyone is having an awesome day!
Gratitude has been shown to be consistently associated with greater happiness. It gives us more energy, happiness, positive emotions, lowers stress & anxiety, improves our health (seriously!), makes us more generous & forgiving, and even helps build stronger relationships!
Today I am grateful for:
Sunshine. 🌞 We haven’t seen the sun in 4 days, it’s too long & it was showing in my mood. It was absolutely beautiful this afternoon!! My daughter & I hung out on our deck for 20+ minutes in our stocking feet, no coats or anything needed, simply enjoying the warmth from the sun & soaking in some vitamin D. Such a blessing!
Friends. 🫂 I somehow messed up measurements on an item I make, not just on one, but on a handful!! *cry* I was beyond frustrated with myself as I had worked on these for two days. My friend said to use them as mini planner purse organizers, for stickers, pens, highlighters, etc… SUCH a great idea and with my brain fog it didn’t even occur to me to do that! Two days of hard work & beautiful materials saved…
My husband. ❤️ He works sooo hard for us & very rarely complains about it. Yet he listens to me complain about little aches & pains and stupid little things. I try really hard not to complain, but sometimes it just escapes from my brain and out of my mouth… 🙊
As i’m sure as everyone knows, food costs are through the roof. It’s hard to keep up with some weeks and because of that, we’ve totally changed the way we shop. Now we shop the sales, and that’s what we eat. Back in the day we’d make a meal plan then shop, now it’s anyone’s guess what we’re going to eat. If we find a sale, that’s what will be eaten for the week ahead. If we need something but it’s not on sale, and we can wait, we wait.
This morning we ran out to get my daughter parmesan cheese, she’s the only one who eats it, but she loves it on her pasta. She eats pasta of some sort quite regularly, so I like to have it in the house for her. While we were at Sobeys (we shop at 3 grocery stores regularly as they’re all 30 seconds from each other quite literally) we decided to take a peek at the meat section. We generally take a quick look every time we stop at a grocery store, as we’re all meat eaters here and meat is one area that I find we can usually save $$ if we watch the sales.
Today we scored on a handful of meat mark-downs! We were out bright & early, just shortly after 8am, which we were told by the lovely employees at Sobeys “is the best time to check for deals”! We also grabbed a couple of small pkg’es of ground beef (not shown here) which were on “regular” sale, in total we saved $21.65 on the meat which had we of bought it at regular price it would have came to $47.97, instead we paid $26.32.
The Kraft Parmesan was also on sale for $8.49 (regular price $10.99) can you believe how much a 250g shaker of Kraft parmesan costs now!? I can’t stand the smell of it to be honest and don’t know how people eat it, but I suppose that’s neither here nor there! lol!!
We also placed our first *Flash Food* order last night!
*Here’s my personal Flashfood referral code: $CARL2Q2KX. If your first purchase is over $10, you’ll get $5 off! Use the code when you sign up or on the Rewards tab. Download the app today, search for Flashfood wherever you get your apps.
Then we picked it up this morning. I’ve been keeping an eye on the APP for items we’d use, but in our area, it seems to be mostly soy based foods or vegetarian/vegan food, which we don’t purchase.
Last night I saw a few items we would use though!
*Flash Food* purchase.
The chicken dumplings, (youngest daughter had them for lunch & loved them) ravioli & baguettes are for my youngest daughter as well, the “Smokies” (cheddar sausages) my husband likes and the Frosted Flakes cereal will go towards our food bank donation at the end of the month. According to the Flash Food APP, here’s what we’ve saved with our first order:
It was a quick & easy process. Shopped online, paid online, picked up at the customer service department this morning. Done & done!
Now that we have built up our freezer stock a bit again, it’s time to eat what we have and skip shopping this week! We may need to pick up an odd or end (probably produce) in the next week or so, which my husband can grab, but otherwise, I hope to not shop until later next week.
On that note, I should probably make myself some dinner before it gets too late!
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How do you save money at the grocery store? Have you had to change your buying habits?
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