this wasn't in the plan |but life is still pretty good

Honestly, who can resist fifty cent cake mixes? Anyone?


I am so far over my grocery budget right now it isn't funny. I don't have exact numbers, but I'm somewhere around $40 over where I should be. Our local Smith's is having (what appears to be semi-annual) a case lot sale, meaning the lowest prices you'll see on lots of canned goods. I know they had it last October and the previous October as well (and I vaguely remember one last April, though I was out of town this time last year, so I can't be sure). I have a pretty good idea of how much I need to buy now to last me six months, and that's what I got. Well, I didn't buy a six month's supply of cake mixes (because, um, in reality, that'd be a lot, way more than the three I did buy), so I did show some restraint.


It is probably of little interest to you all, but blogging this will help me cut down on my grocery expenses for the rest of the month, seeing as I now feel some sort of accountability to a few hundred people I've never met. So, I will. I will probably be over, but it will not be by $40 (or $50 or $60). Unless of course Smith's tries to thwart me and puts more pantry staples on uber-sale.