Saturday Grocery Spending

The time has come, and I hope it is only temporary, where I can no longer title this post Saturday Savings and must instead go to Saturday Spending.  What has happened!?!?!  Not too long ago I was getting great deals and building a pretty nice stockpile.  Now I feel lucky to stay under budget.  Is it all the wonderful produce that I now find at the store that wasn't there in the winter?  Is it the rising gas prices which equal a rise in all other prices?  Is it that I can no longer control myself in the grocery store?  And why, oh why, can I not STICK TO MY LIST!!!!!!!  I'm sure all of these are part of my problem, but I really wish I could get back to only spending $100 and building a stockpile while doing so. 

So, this week I spent $124.68 of my $125.00 budget.  I got a ton of produce.  We will likely have strawberries and blueberries at every meal this week.  I am also happy to report that I was able to buy the bacon and chicken that I was not able to purchase last week.  There are few highlights to this trip, but here are the lame ones:

• Organic lettuce marked down to $2.09.  I got 4 packages :)
• 2 more containers of preservative and other gunk free lunch meat for $1.50 each.
• Then, my not paying attention to details self messed up not once, but twice.  The big one is when I bought whole cashews instead of pieces and am now paying $3.00 extra for it!!!!!  The second one was forgetting to use a coupon. 
• My total coupon saving was less than $7, I can't remember the last time it was so bad. 

If you have any ideas to help me keep my budget low, while still eating as much organic (or natural) and local food as possible please help me.  My stockpile is getting low and then our budget will have to go up and I hate that idea. 

Here are the details.

8-Jul
Local Meat Store
1.48 lbs Bacon	$5.71
1.83 lbs Chicken	$6.02
Total Spent	$11.73
Kroger
Cayenne Pepper	$4.55
2 - 1/2 gal.org. milk	$5.58
2 cans canned salmon	$5.50
Pickles	$2.19
2 Diet Soda	$1.58
2 Kroger Dressing	$2.50	.40 coup.
Pretzels	$1.25
Cashews	$5.79
3 cans org. garbanzo beans	$2.97
Goldfish	$2.18	.70 coup
2 solid white tuna	$2.50
Chicken	$3.47
Mushrooms	$2.18
2 yellow squash	$0.57
org. spinach	$3.79
3 kroger mand. Oranges	$2.31
org. yogurt	$3.50
Parsley	$0.89
3 pints cherry tom.	$7.50	3 - .55 coups.
green onions	$0.55
3 lbs. strawberries	$4.50
watermelon	$3.49
2 limes	$0.67
2 jalapenos	$0.32
mango	$1.00
1.52 lbs. tom.	$2.40
2.63 lbs. org. bananas	$1.81
.31 lbs. garlic	$1.05
red pepper	$1.64
1.55 lbs. org. grapes	$5.10
3 ears of corn	$0.90
Total Spent	$82.05
Total Saved	$15.33
Total Coupons	$3.75
Meijer
2 Pizza Sauce	$2.38
Basil	$1.99
Org. Yogurt	$3.56
4 Avocados	$3.99
3 Cucumbers	$1.00
3 pints org. blueberries	$7.50
2 Hormel lunch meat	$5.00	$1 coup.
4 org. Romaine 2.09	$8.36	$2 coup.
Total Spent	$30.90
Total Saved	$14.80
Total Coupons	$3.00
Total Spending	$124.68
Total Savings	$30.30
Total Coupons	$6.75
Total for July	$248.66
Budget	under $.32
Monthly budget	under $1.34
Yearly Spending	$1,945.69