The Grocery Ads

When I have grocery ads, Tommy takes them before I get to them or after I have seen them and studies the sales. He informs me of things on sale that I buy. He never did this until the last couple of months. I don't think it is Covid boredom. He knows and understands what I will buy (items, or bogo, or any other indicator the price is lower) and reads them out to me. 

I ask him to put it on a list where I can examine it more closely and check what we have on hand. Sometimes, on his own he checks the shelves and tells me what is there. 

He also understands we eat the leftovers. There was not really enough slaw leftover for one person, much less two people. He offered that he would have the salad greens and I could eat the slaw. I had given half a can of baked beans last night, and he ate the rest of that today, too, with one of the healthy hot dogs and a bun. Rarely does he say he is not in the mood for something. If it is cooked and he is not in the mood for it, sometimes I suggest we go get something! Mostly, he says for me to fix whatever is easiest. He understands there will be meat and two or three vegetables. Fruit, too. 

It works when we work together! That is how we spent $200 for groceries in January. Speaking of groceries in January, I went over exactly $6.50 this month, but it will be from February groceries. I had $15 cash from the garden research, so I used that without worrying about where it was coming from. I do/did have more money and was not down to my last $15. So, I still have $200 grocery money for February. 

My a2milk is on sale 3 half gallons for $10. That 3 half gallons would be $13.47. The sale ends next Tuesday, so when my ss check is deposited on Feb 1st I will buy 6 half gallons for $20 at a savings of $6.94. This will last me for two weeks or more and save a good chunk of money. Well, I think $6.94 is a substantial savings. 

Saturday, the one-half gallon of a2milk I bought was necessary. I can wait until Monday for the other six half gallons. We were out of tomatoes, but we did without and can get more Monday for the Italian Salad Blend. Of course, I did buy a tiny bag of Lindt chocolate truffles with only two truffles. I love those. 

Back to the original premise. He makes it easy for me to shop and cook. Well, there are nights I would not cook if he were not eating, too. I can snack around on a piece of cold chicken and spend two hours getting in a full meal. 

Just now, I asked Tommy if he had ever looked at the grocery ads before I lived here. He said, "No."

Do you have "help" shopping as in looking over ads? Do you ever eat the Lindt Lindor truffles?