This used to be 25 lbs of galas, but we've been snacking them pretty hard all week. It's still a lot of apples.
Over budget.
Spent this week: $165.46
Spent in the past 24 hours: $0
Same old song. We would have been okay, if not for the Thai food.
We spent $110.46 on groceries. That includes $10 worth of ice cream and $6 worth of orange juice. (Pregnancy tax.) We spent $28 at the farm stand of our favorite no-spray u-pick. Their u-pick is over for the season, but they’ve got great deals right now on stuff that’s already picked. That is, 25% anything you buy by the case. We go through gala apples like water around here, and apples keep well on our nice, cold (unheated, uninsulated) sun porch. We got 25 lbs of beautiful organic (minus the pricey certificate) gala apples for $18. That $18 puts us outside of our budget, but we won’t have to buy apples for a few weeks and I’m also going to make and can a few batches of apple butter, which will extend our quickly dwindling toast spread stash. (Must also finish making jam from the rest of the frozen blueberries, and get started on the marionberries.) Bonus: the sunporch now smells very strongly of cold apples. The other $10 was spent on Brussels sprouts, broccoli, cauliflower, some kind of hot pepper that Billy will eat alone because I don’t care for them, and some gorgeous bartlett pears. We’ve still got half the broccoli and cauliflower, and those peppers, so that $10 goes toward feeding us next week, too… So there was some spending this week that will translate to lower costs in the coming weeks. All that is fine.
