OK- confession- I usually hide all the full priced items and mistakes (and some of the junk food!) from my shopping photos but today is the real deal. I only hid one full priced snack item which was the 3 pack of caramel apples that cost $2.99. This is a typical trip I would make once or twice per month to stock up on only the best deal and items we are out of. I normally go to Sprouts on Double Ad Wednesdays and spend about $25 per week on produce, buying only the featured items. Our produce budget is supplemented by the coupons I find for bagged salad and any specials I find elesewhere. On a normal month we buy about $150 worth of meat, usually from Sam’s but sometimes from the Safeway markdowns. Based on those numbers plus approx. $50 per week for grocery store sales that puts us around $450 per month. My weekly budget for everything household related (including clothing, maintenance items for the house, grooming, entertainment etc.) is $125 so that is not quite meshing right now. Hopefully we are stocked up enough to slow down on spending and get the budget back on track.
Safeway: (sale ends today)
Cereal- 7 boxes at $1.49, used $.50/1 coupons- paid $3.43
King Soopers:
Oh boy- I was ready to try out that Kraft promotion I mentioned yesterday then got overwhelmed and scared it wouldn’t work and spent most of the time my son was in school debating. Anyways, I bought 12 items I thought were on the list while trying to also keep track of the buy ten sale items. All that brain power used and I still ended up wasting 15 minutes at customer service.
3 Capri Suns at $2.50/Mega Sale
used $1 off coupons and got catalina
1 Capri Sun marked down to $2.09 for the more expensive fruit/veggie variety
used $1 off coupon that refused because the item was marked down, customer service said that was not the policy and redeemed the coupon afterall
Hunt’s Snackpack pudding x 2 at $1 each
bought two and earned $.50 from SavingStar making these $.75 each
Bagged Salad, bananas, tomatoes, grape tomatoes $1.50
Milk -gallon- 3 at $1.97
Turkey Hill Iced Tea and Lemonade $.99/Mega sale
used newspaper $1/2 making them $.49 each
my husband let me know when I got home that he doesn’t like these
Oscar Mayer Hot Dogs $1.99 x 4/Mega Sale
used $1/2 x 2 printable plus got $1 catalina on each package
Cottage Cheese x 2
used 2 x $.40/1 from Kroger home mailer
Zataran’s $.99 marked down
Rice A Roni $.49 marked down
American Beauty pasta $.49/Mega Sale x 14
Progresso Recipe Makers x 3 $1.49/mega sale
used $.50/1- paid $.49 each
International Delight $2.99 Mega Sale
used 4x $1.50 off printable, paid $1.49 for 32 oz bottles
Zone bar $1
used $.55/1 from newspaper- Free
Yakisoba Noodles $1.09
used $.50/1 from newspaper, paid $.09
Twizzlers marked down to $.49
Mentos Gum $1.25
used $.55/1 from Kroger home mailer
Velveeta Pasta $2.09 x 4
used $1 off printable coupon plus got $1 catalina- paid $.09 each
Kraft Mac & Cheese Cups marked down to $2.39
used $1 off plus $1 catalina- paid $.39
Eggs $2.59 for 18
Gerber drinks marked down to $.89 x 3
Birds Eye frozen rice $.99/mega sale
used $.30/1 from Bird’s Eye site- paid $.29 each x 2
I spent $1.99 at Safeway the other day for laundry detergent and $7.04 for 2 bottles of detergent from Amazon and didn’t buy any other household items this week. The pantry looks full but I’m embarrassed about all the junk food. Trying to find easy lunches for the kids has been a challenge and I suppose a little of it is okay in moderation, right? Now to say goodbye to this weeks deals and move on to next’s weeks ads!
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