Saturday morning, I had to take the girls to a quiz meet, about 90 minutes away. (but only about 60 miles--city driving-stop, go-stop..) We go right by an Aldi store, (there are none near me) so on the way back we stopped. I spent $157-filled 3 carts with grocery and laundry items. Got speg sauce, olives, corn, green beans, beats, & carrots by the case. I would have liked to have also gotten a couple cases of fruit, but the aisle was blocked and the store was packed and I didn't want to wait around. By the time we got out of there, it was after 1pm, so I did McDonalds thing--we each got 1 thing off the dollar menu, and a cup of ice water. But, I carry a container of drink mix in my glove box, so I pulled over and added it in, so we had orange drink instead of water. Saved us about 79 cents each doing it that way. I can get the powered drink mix at Aldi for $1 each. Orginally I started getting it for the camping trailer, as it weighed less than taking juice with us. Now, I find it nice to keep one in the glove box and one in my mailbox at school as well.
The groceries should last us about 5 weeks.