Weekly Spending & Bread Baking

I had $20 that was reimbursed to me which brought my bi-weekly grocery money to $120.  My first purchase was four bags of Bob's Red Mill granola from Amazon.  This is my favorite granola to eat with my yogurt.  I paid $13 for this.  I also got a Boston butt which will go into the crockpot overnight and then be shredded for barbecue.  This also cost $13 and will likely give us at least five meals.  I bought two boxes of cereal for $4.  My only true shopping was done earlier in the week.  I bought two boxes of salt, bananas,  a cake mix, three bags of chips, and fish filets.  My total came to $14.  All together I spent $44 plus $2 toward Sunday paper purchase.  That leaves me with $74 for next week. 
Now onto the bread baking.  I had a good French bread recipe but the loaves it made were too small.  I tried making one loaf, and it was too big.  I felt a bit like Goldilocks.  I was searching for my "just right" sized loaves.  I found a couple of recipes online that were similar.  I actually combined the two of them together to make my own recipe, which is completely unlike me.

The loaves turned out to be nice sized.  They were much better than what I had ended up with in the past.  They rose well and baked to a nice golden color. 

I love the baking pan I purchased from Amazon just for baking French bread.  It has lots of tiny holes in the bottom which helps the crust of the bread crisp while the inside remains chewy.