Avoiding Temptation

It's almost been a whole week, and I'm doing well. Staying busy is the trick, but my previous way to stay busy was to shop! It seems appropriate that my first status post is about the store I visited 4 times a week on average - Target. Target is dangerous. I feel like I must break up with Target this year. It's been a good ride, but it's just too tempting! A trip to the store for toilet paper can end at $200… easily. 

It is certainly a shoppers high to stack a sale with a coupon with Cartwheel with Red Card Debit savings, and then pharmacy rewards. I mean, the WHOLE STORE IS 5% OFF!! That was my rationalization for buying groceries there, but a grocery trip would inevitably end up with non-grocery items in the cart. I kept meaning to price compare their groceries to a 'normal' grocery store, but in the end I never got around to it because it was so doggone convenient to buy cheese and then wander down to get a new workout top and realize I desperately needed another hand towel (riiiiight). 

They print your annual Red Card savings at the bottom of the receipt, and it's equally exciting and depressing. It's not only the money that's been nickel and dimed and couponed away, it's that all that STUFF now lives in our house! We have three colanders, exploding kids' dresser drawers, enough C9 workout gear for a whole team of athletes, etc. 

Since we still need to eat, I'm trying out the new HyVee in town and taking it a step further with meal delivery. I am definitely an impulse shopper, even with grocery shopping. My long term goal is to attempt meal planning, but for now having a basic list of groceries show up on my doorstep is a start.

I went online and browsed through an extensive list of items, filled my cart just over $100 (to avoid the $4.95 fee), and scheduled delivery. The next morning there was a knock at my door and a nice man brought in five grocery bags to my kitchen counter:

One thing I immediately realized is that I didn't have any 'goodies.' I didn't realize how much I must impulse grocery shop… snacks, sales, whatever looks good in the moment. 

Another thing I noticed is I didn't read all of the descriptions online properly and got a lot more eggs than I bargained for… omelets anyone? Everything else was 100% on point, and even came in $4 cheaper than the online order! They offered an option to allow substitutes, but I didn't select it.

If I order before 10am, they offer same day delivery; so until my meal planning is on point, I can still be somewhat indecisive with my dinner ideas. Speaking of dinner ideas; what are your favorite go to dinner ideas? Mine are usually a roast/loin in the crock pot or ground turkey/bison in a skillet meal of some sort!

Things I thought about buying this week: new Turbie Twists (hair towels).