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Cari’s spending: back on track

With all the orange juice and cottage cheese and pears I’ve been consuming (okay, and there may have been a doughnut involved at some point, as well), I didn’t expect we’d make it. Especially since our anniversary dinner was this week (mmmmm….Ethiopian!), and we ate at restaurants as a family twice due to exhaustion/bad planning.

But you know what? We’re under budget this week. Maybe we won’t need to tack on extra money for the fetal food demands, after all.

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Cari’s spending, Week 8: Over budget! (don’t blame the berries)

Overbudget, you say? Impossible!

Overbudget, you say? Impossible!

Well, we went over budget this week. Here’s the breakdown:

  • Groceries: $91.56 (this includes 15 lbs of organic bread flour, by the way)
  • Marionberries: $15.50
  • Burritos bought en route to berry picking: $11.50 (to feed the three of us. Cliff bought his own burrito)
  • Burgerville: $14 ($13 and change, but we lost the receipt, so let’s round up)

Total spent on food this week: $132.56. We went over budget by $7.56

It was the milkshake that did it. Or rather, the craving for one. That’s right. Here I am all garden this and organic that, and our budget this week was undone by fast food. Eaten in the car! Yeah. I hang my hippie head in shame. (And yes, we knew we were going over budget even as we pulled into that Burgerville lot.) Here’s how it happened.

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