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Total: ~11.00

This post was originally intended to be a follow up to one of my Dillons posts. It's just taken me so long to get around to writing it that I can't remember which one. This honey was accidentally left out of the shopping picture that day which conveniently reminded me of a point I'd been meaning to make.

I've been showing you the good deals I've been getting lately, but you would be much mistaken if you assumed we have a minuscule grocery budget or bought everything dirt cheap. As much as I like to save money, I also like to splurge on certain things. Some of these have to do with taste: real butter and high quality tea and coffee. Others are health decisions. I buy whole wheat pasta which costs about twice as much as regular.

The honey falls into a very special category of splurge: the ones that make my husband happy. I would be perfectly happy with the store brand honey bear. But Kurt's been reading a lot about health foods lately and believes that raw and unfiltered is the way to go.

It's all too easy to plunge ahead with my own ideas about what is good and helpful for our family without ever pausing to consider what would please my husband. And he's the one I'm supposed to be helping! So I'm learning to cheerfully buy the $11 honey.

Check out Crystal Paine's excellent post on this very topic over at Biblical Womanhood.

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Walmart

Total: 43.45

Walmart is where I do my staple shopping. I use the Walmart price to gauge how good a sale is.

Dillons

I paid: 20.90

Highlights:
1/2 gallon of buttermilk marked down to .99.
Made .25 on the toilet paper.
Marked down yogurt made it .49 after coupon.