On Thursday, I did my weekly grocery shopping. I needed quite a few things, so I got plenty organized before I went. On my list were things like dog food (our dogs easily go through 20 lbs a week), cat food, orange juice, lunch meat for sandwiches, laundry detergent and softener, trash compactor bags, fresh salad, sodas and more.
A few months ago, this kind of list easily would have run me $100-$150 for the week. And I would have been out of most of it within a week or two. This week, I spent less than $80 on all of it and then some :) I will also say that, although I am not at my $100 monthly grocery bill goal, I will be a lot closer when I have some of these things stocked up. Am I going to stockpile everything because I have 600 coupons? No, and I don't have 600 coupons for anything ;-) But my goal is to get to where I only need to go to the store for fresh things (produce, salad, maybe juice, etc) 2-3 weeks out of the month. And I think when I have built that SMALL stock, that's when my grocery bills will truly dwindle :)
Kroger was my 1st stop. They are having another Mega Event. If you're not familiar with their Mega Events, it's where you buy any 10 participating items (of which there are A LOT throughout the store) and you get $5 off at the register. So .50 off each item. Unfortunately, I didn't have coupons for a lot of their Mega Event items, but that was okay because I needed quite a bit of stuff this week anyway.
From this promo, I got
4 boxes of Eggo waffles (my 4-year-old eats them 24 hours a day!) I want to note here that I had gotten a circular in the mail saying the waffles were .99. When I got to the store, they were 1.79. Turns out, one of my local Kroger's (I have 2 within about 2 miles or less of me) is sending our circulars just for THEIR store. I didn't realize they were doing this and, hence, giving me somewhat misleading info since I haven't been shopping at the one from which I get the circulars. SO... I went up to customer service and the employee was nice enough to tell me they'd match the price in the circular. I was very glad because this way, I wasn't paying an extra .80 per box that I hadn't accounted for. :)
I also got 2 packs of Oscar Mayer lunch meat, of which we go through a lot of. 2.49 each.
I threw in some Capri Suns for Abbie as a treat b/c she enjoys them and I don't hardly ever keep them in the house. 1.66
I also got a bag of fresh salad for 1.99 :)
I got Kraft BBQ sauce because BBQ chicken was on my menu for this week. .50
Then I grabbed the fabric softener. The cashier made somewhat of a mistake, so instead of being 3.49, it was 4.24. But that's okay.
I spent 16.76 and saved 12.43. A 43% savings. I was happy :)
Then I had another transaction. This one was a little hairier so I wanted to seperate it (I also wanted to make sure there was no confusion with my 10 participating promo items).
First on my list was laundry detergent because we were completely OUT! :O I looked at all of their HE detergents and found that Purex was the best deal b/c I had a 3.00 coupon. It was on sale for 7.99 and I got it for 4.99. It will last us probably close to a month b/c it was 150 ounces. :)
I also grabbed some milk they had marked on clearance for 1.09 :) We always need milk. :)
I love Hormel pork tenderloins (because they're SUPER easy and yummy!) They had some of my favorites on sale for 7.99 and I had $1 off coupon. So I got it for 6.99 :)
Then I had a coupon I'd never seen before. It was for $1 ANY fresh beef in the store if I bought one Mrs. Dash spice. Well, I had another .50 coupon off the Ms.Dash spices (which doubled to $1 off). So I used both and got...
The spice for 1.50 (because they were also on sale 2/$5 or 2.50 each)
and the meat for 1.92. :)
I had some good Tostitos coupons, so we headed over that way. I had a coupon for both the salsa and the chips that I bought (making them 2.20 and 1.75 respectively I believe) And then I had ANOTHER coupon that, when I bought those 2 items, I got a free Pepsi Max. So I got that as well.
So...
One big thing of HE laundry detergent, Milk for the week, 2 liter of pepsi, Pork Tenderloin, bag of chips, salsa, Ms. Dash seasoning, and a pound of ground beef.... 21.30
13.51 saved (39%) :)
I made another stop after that, but I won't bore you with that quite yet. :)
Melissa
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