The wife did great! She spent only $123.50 and got plenty (and I mean PLENTY) of groceries! She used her shopper club card (as always) and saved about $8 with that. She also didn't clip coupons and wanted to from our Sunday paper but I told her she did great since this is around $80 less than what we average a week for groceries. We should be all set until at least next Wednesday (payday!) and she really didn't skimp on anything. In fact the most expensive item she bought was refills for my razor cleaner (I have that Braun Clean & Renew and the refills are $10 for 2.) I got about 3 months out of the original so I expect to get 6 months out of these 2 refills. So to update our spending plan:

$300.00 start (Tues 2/27)
$130.49 spent
$169.51 left!

She's at a technology fair in Philadelphia today and she can put everything down there on the company Visa so she shouldn't be spending any money (except maybe coffee in the AM...she'll let me know.) I'm at work and she got me a bunch of those crystal light to go packets which run about 30 cents/packet (so I basically can just fill up a bottle of water...we have bottled water delivered at work.) It's less than half the cost of a 12 oz soda here and I get 16.9 oz of either fruit punch of pink lemonade to drink. I can usually go through 4 packets a day (on average) so with the 2 boxes of 10 packets each that's a work week's worth of drinks for around 6 dollars. I'll take that anyday!