Too many ALDI stores!

It used to be that there was only one ALDI store in my area. Although that store isn't that far - maybe a five-mile drive - it was in a direction that I don't normally travel. So I made a special trip to ALDI once a week or so. Knowing that I didn't want to schlep back there, I would be sure to not waste any of the food I got there. Or if I did use something up, I'd just wait until the next visit, and make do with other food that I had.

But recently, a new ALDI store opened in my area. It's just a bit closer, but it's on a route that I take a few times a week. And it's so easy just to pop in there now. So I find I'm not rationing out the ALDI food so much, because it's so easy to go get more.

And that means I'm spending more there, which is not good for the grocery budget.

So I'll have to try to limit myself to just one trip a week, like I used to!

But here are the details from the two trips I took this week:

ALDI trip 1:
1 bottle wine @ $2.69
1 romaine hearts @ $1.99
1 canned mushrooms @ 59¢
1 cream cheese @ $1.19
1 baking cocoa @ $2.29
1 sandwich bags @ $1.99
1 blueberries @ $1.29
1 cottage cheese @ $2.19
1 woven wheat crackers @ $1.39
1 all-purpose flour @ $1.69
1 dried pinto beans @ $1.99
1 dried Great Northern Beans @ $2.29
1 wheat bread @ $1.29
1 strawberries @ $1.29

Total product: $24.16
Tax:  29¢
Total out of pocket: $24.45

ALDI trip 2:

3 large eggs @ $1.29 = $3.87
1 2 lb red grapes @ $1.78
1 3 lb Fuji apples @ $2.59
2 gallons milk @ $2.89 = $5.78
2 apple juice concentrate @ 92¢ = $1.84
1 honey wheat bread @ $1.29
1 Parmesan cheese @ $2.39
1 instant oatmeal @ $1.39

Total out of pocket: $22.12

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