December, 2025 Grocery Trip #1

 In review of the November, 2025 groceries, I spent $560.35 on groceries. That included a $460 Azure order, over half of which was a 55 pound bag of Allulose, which will last us probably 4 years. I'm going to leave it on the record because we bought it and it's groceries. The total includes our Thanksgiving dinner (at home). We did eat out more than we normally do. We ate 4 lunches out, and breakfast out on the day that I had a dental appointment at 7 a.m.

I will not be placing an Azure order in December.

Today we were out and stopped by the grocery store. I had all the groceries lined up on the table to take a picture, a friend called and said she was coming over. I quickly put away all the groceries and never took a picture.

I did take a picture of the receipt so everything is listed.

• 4 packs of Italian cheese
• 2 packs of chocolate bark - candy making
• 5 packages of cranberries - juice to can
• 1 Holiday Board - Vince said this is a nice cutting board. It's shaped like a big snowflake. I said . . it would be nice to mount a cross stitched piece on too. It was only $9.99 so we got it.
• Celery
• Carrots*
• 3 pack of bell peppers*
• bag of lemons
• bag of limes
• 5 pounds of potatoes
• 5 avocados
• Puff Pastry crackers
• Zucchini*
• 2 packs of mushrooms*
• Frozen snacks - sausage in some kind of roll
• Ginger Root*
• Parsley
• Bananas
• Jalapeno Peppers*
• Sugar Snap Peas*
• 2 cans diced green chiles
• Honey/Goats Milk snack
• Goat cheese crumbles
• Broccoli*
• 2 packages of blueberries
• 1/2 gallon whole milk

That came to $105.05.

We also spent $7.68 at a Hispanic grocery. I needed two kinds of dried peppers and fresh corn tortillas for migas tomorrow.

Then we spent $42 at Sam's Club (delivery) for 40 pounds of onion to can.

So, our total for groceries today was $154.73.

The broccoli was several large heads. I plan to use some of that in stir fry twice, some in a broccoli salad, some in chicken, broccoli & rice. If there's any of it left, I'll come up with something else to make.

All of the items that have an asterisk by them will be used in the stir fry. When I make stir fry, I try to make enough for us to have it for two meals. I will make chicken stir fry first, and once that's gone, I'll make beef stir fry that we should get four meals out of those two dishes.

Vince makes guacamole most every morning so he will go through the avocados in no time but we don't buy more than a week's worth because they'll get too ripe. Tomorrow we're having Migas and he said he would make guacamole to go with that too. Yay, Vince!

I'm hoping that except for needing more avocados and bananas, we won't be buying groceries again til after Christmas.