I swear the prices went up from last week! When is this going to end?

We bought 5 bags of groceries today. Okay we did buy some magazines. I buy
those every week. And I did screw up and pay for 4, 12 packs of Lime Diet
Coke. Then I got to the van and realized I had only picked up 3. If it
wasn't such a huge store and I wasn't so exhausted and in need of dinner, I
would have gone back to get another one. I guess I had intended to get 4
but because our cart was so loaded with veggies, another one wouldn't fit.
So I wasted about $3 there. And messed up their inventory. Ha! Also
bought some containers for the veggies. I do have some containers here but
I think they are either round or two small. So I probably spent $12 for
those.

I am sure I have enough veggies for a week. Maybe enough carrots for two
weeks. Angela has been going through carrots and celery like mad! Also two
pears and a large bag of small, red delicious apples. I know these things
are not low carb but they are small. I told her she could have them with
her meal or for snacks.

The only meat I bought were two small chubs of ground beef, a package of
chicken tenders (raw, unbreaded), and a smoked sausage. I did buy 4 kinds
of cheese. They didn't have white chicken chili or even the seasoning mix
that I saw advertised when looking for recipes. They did have some
seasoning for chicken tacos. Which is what I plan to do with the chicken
tenders. They only had one kind of meat only chili that didn't have soy
protein in it. I bought a can for Angela to try and this time she didn't
object. I did buy some cat treats and a few other things.

The total? $190! Gah! There wasn't even anything grass fed or organic
which is how I would prefer to eat. But I just can't afford it any more.

I did feel very sorry for this one woman. She had a very large amount of
large sweet potatoes in her cart. She also had 2 gallons of milk and 2 huge
bags of cheap cereal. The kind that kids would eat. She seemed to go up
and down every aisle, looking at things sadly and then putting them back.
I got the feeling that she wanted to buy other things but didn't have the
money for them.

Got home and prepped all the veggies. Then made dinner. We had scrap
salad. I took out every remaining veggie that was in the fridge and turned
it into a salad. There was a bag of salad that expired today. It had gone
a bit mushy. Little bit of celery and bell peppers. A few black olives. A
few kidney beans. Tomato on mine. Angela got a few cucumber slices from
the cucumber we just bought. She had the leftover chicken from last night
and about three bites of chicken flavored rice. I had the same amount of
rice and some cheese on my salad for protein because there was no more
chicken. Angela also had three kiwis. Need to look up the carb count for
those. I haven't a clue because I never liked them. She asked for them
before we knew of the low carb diet and they were going to go bad if they
didn't get eaten.