Once a Month Mom-the shopping trip

So I decided to try out this once a month cooking...and this post is about the shopping trip.

On the OAMM site you can access the grocery list, instructions, and recipes to feed your family for about a month.  It has this really cool feature that lets you input the amount of servings you need, and it will adjust the ingredients amounts.  So I put in 6.  I figure that my husband and I eat larger than regular portions, plus 2 of my 3 children that will eat what I cook.  This was a mistake that you can read about later!

I printed my grocery list for the July menu, and off I went...at 9pm at night.  This was the only time I could get away from my children make in my busy schedule...

Since I have never done this before I didn't quite realize just how extensive the list would be.  In short it was 25 items from produce, 19 pantry items, 7 meat items (but a total of 40lbs), 38 spices/condiments, 12 dairy items, and some other supplies.  First I crossed off the things I already had at home, flour, etc....then I foolishly started in produce.

The reason I say foolish, is because by the time I finished, all my produce was being crushed by everything else, my meat was dripping blood through the cart, and my dairy was only slightly below room temp!  I should have started in the middle of the store with cans and pantry items, then dairy, then produce, and finally meat...but I had never done this before, so I followed the order of the list.

This is what my cart looked like after the produce...

 And then after the meat and can goods were added...and the beer is for my mental health a recipe...

 At this point it was about 10:30 and I still had the pantry items and dairy so I stopped taking pictures and just wanted to finish and get out of there.  It would be another hour, and my cart was OVERFLOWING!  I get in the only line left open and the check out boy's eyes get huge.  I immediately apologize that I have this much stuff, 30 minutes before they close, and how I never do this...and he just smiled and said no problem.  So he starts to ring me up and at one point, 2/3 of the way through, he says "Ugh-oh"...
I look at the check out monitor and the last item entered says $2400.00!  Wait what?!

He was ringing up my garlic, which was 2 for $1, at 4700 items...lol.  So the shift leader had to call the manager and she explained that even though the correct protocol was to void the ENTIRE order that because I had so much could she just void the boo boo and keep going?!
Manager says ok and they finish.  The poor cashier looked embarrassed so I assured him that we all do that at least once(ring someone up at a huge amount).  So he finishes, and my grand total was $544.80!  HOLY CRAP!

Then I had him swipe my Fuelperks rewards card.

I saved $117.53, plus earned $1.45 per gallon towards gas.   IF this makes enough food to feed my family for 3-5 weeks it will be a savings.  We spend on avg $150 a week on groceries, and another $50-100 on eating out per week.  So we will see.

This is what my receipt tape looked like!

 I didn't get home until almost midnight, then
I had to wake up my poor husband to help me inside with all of the groceries.  I spent another 30-45 minutes putting everything away, as best as I could with limited space.

The next post will be about the prep work!