This Month's 2026 Grocery Spending - March

 

The grocery ads this past month were absolutely abysmal.  There wasn’t much in the way of good deals to stock up on for myself.  I did buy some boxed macaroni & cheese as well as a few bags of cereal for my donation shelf.  I used a Kroger gift card I had earned to pay for most of those expenses.  Other than that I stuck to only buying what I needed replacing items I was using to make my meals.

I added mac & cheese to the emergency/donation shelf in my LTFS

I made lots of healthy and delicious salads this month

My local Winco supermarket allowed me to pick up the bulk of my groceries, fresh produce and some dairy, for decent prices.  Trader Joes the following week allowed me to pick up a few more items to add to the pantry and LTFS plus a bag of carrots and a package of green onions.  I used my Christmas gift card to pay for my Trader Joes purchases.

 

Costco haul!

I'm excited to try these 😋

I made my monthly trip to Costco to finish out the month and picked up a short list of items.  I added a bag of onions that wasn’t on the list because the price was too good to turn down and I do use onions quite a bit.  They can also be diced and frozen so they make a great item to add to my deep freezer for quick meal preparation.  I was happy to add a flat of V8 juice to my LTFS.  I haven’t had that for a long time and I really do enjoy it.  I also added a box of fudge bars to the freezer.

 

Yum!

The only nonfood items I picked up this month were a box of the snack size food bags at Winco  and a box of organic lip balms on sale at Costco.  Admittedly, the lip balm was not a need, but I wanted to try it.  I also can use some of them as gifts if I choose.  Total spent on nonfood items was $14.27.

 

My total spent on food was only $87.53 and I was rather pleased with that.  The gift cards and Costco rewards helped out a lot too.  Did you have any good sales at your stores?  Were you able to stock up on anything this month?