My Vegan Emotional Roller Coaster

This has been a hard weekend. I am emotionally exhausted. We went over our grocery
budget by so much it is staggering. We spent $143 on groceries, out budget was $35.
Now, a lot of the large items like the arrow root (for thickening), Agave Nectar
(for sweetening) and a few other items will last awhile. However, I usually buy items
on sale and with coupons if I have them and stock up which was impossible to do
with many of the items I bought. I tried my hardest to keep the spending down but
it just wasn't possible. My husband has committed to living off of the food we have
for as long as possible while I try and make up for the budget blown.

The positive thing is that from Monday to Friday my husband lost 5 pounds. He is hoping to lose another 5 pounds in 5 days.
I’m very proud of his dedication.

We had a talk on Saturday night after I had an emotional meltdown over money. He promised he would not be picky on what he eats like organic etc. He just would prefer to avoid anything with egg or milk if he can help it.

There were items we bought from Whole Foods that could have been purchased at Pubilx for less money and he said that next time he will buy them there to save money.

My problem with the whole this is that we took an out of control grocery budget, and in 3 months cut it in half. The problem with our out of control budget is that we were not making enough money to support that budget. That is why I’m so afraid this new diet will blow our new budget, because the budget I whittled us down to is all we can afford right now.

I used my Swag Bucks to pay for my daughter’s birthday present and our PUR Waterfilter on Amazon…so thank goodness for Swag Bucks. What are Swag Bucks and how do you get them? Go HERE for my tutorial.

It was a whirlwind weekend and I’m so panicked still. If we can make it through until I get my quarterly bonus we can make up for all the groceries we blew money on this weekend. Ah!