Weekly Shopping Wrap Up

I am really struggling lately to stay within our weekly budget. I'm trying to stock up on many good things when they are at a low price, and it's causing me to ultimately go over. Here's how I did this week:

Oh, and my picture doesn't reflect a second trip to Kroger this week, where I scored Springer Mountain Chicken on markdown and then used $1.50 coupons and a few other markdowns.

Kroger: See my list here
Total OOP: $51.04
Total Savings: $33.52
% Savings - 65%

Publix: See my list here

Total OOP: $ 28.94
Total Savings: $25.62
% Savings - 88%

Harris Teeter - Great deal on potatoes -- .99 for a 5 lb bag.
Total OOP: $2.20?? Estimated, I lost the receipt
Total Savings $6.00 estimated

Grand Total OOP: $82.18

So, I'm well over my $60 budget. But my percentage savings were really great! Got to figure out how to better balance the two. Any suggestions?

Weekly Shopping Wrap Up

I was still over budget a little this week, but nothing like last week. Still trying to make up for that one. I even cut back on my Publix list to try and make up for it.

Here's the breakdown:

Kroger See list here
Total OOP: 22.17
Savings 44%

Publix See my list here
Total OOP: $39.39
Savings: 54%

Grant Total for week: $61.56

Weekly Shopping Wrap Up - Blown Budget Edition

Well, I just blew my grocery budget this week. Whole Foods does it to me everytime! I love that store, and I have a hard time controlling myself when I'm there. Then they had this awesome deal on grass-fed beef and their $20 Labor Day Promotion.

Here's the breakdown:

Publix: See my list here.
Total OOP: 33.87
Savings: 56%

Kroger
Total OOP: $14.87
Lost my receipt, so I don't know what the savings were.



Whole Foods
Total OOP: $65.43
Savings: 45%

Total for the week: $114.17 Holy Cow!!!
But, here's how I'm justifying it: I have 10 pounds of wholesome, grass-fed beef. That will last my family approximately 6 months because we eat meat sparingly.

Weekly Shopping Wrap up

It was a light week for me at the grocery stores, but that's always good for the budget.

A few of the things you see in the picture (Shout and Honest Kids Juice packs) are rainchecks from prior weeks sales. Because of my work schedule, I tend to shop at the end of the sale cycle. And sometimes they are out of a sale item. You should always ask for a raincheck. Publix is always very good about giving a raincheck, but often they will limit you to 6 same items (or less). Kroger can sometimes be a little harder to get a rain check out of, but I took the issue to the manager and he agreed.

Here are my weekly Grocery totals:

Kroger: $32.14 See my list w/ coupons here
Total Savings: $19.84
% Saved: 40%

Publix: $13.12 See my list w/coupons here
Total Savings $21.87
% Saved: 62%

Total for week: $45.26
Yea! 2 weeks under budget!

Weekly Shopping Wrap Up

It's been a while since I posted one of my weekly shops. But here is this weeks shopping trip to Publix and Kroger.

Publix: See my list with coupon matchups here
Total Retail Value: $56.06
- Sales and Coupons: $46.59
Total Out of Pocket : $9.47


Kroger - see my list with coupon matchups here
Total Retail Value: $84.92
- Sales & Coupons: $48.99
Total Out of Pocket: $35.93

Total for week: $45.40
A savings of 67%

Weekly Shopping Wrap Up

I've been lax on posting my grocery shopping of late. Just so much going on, and not enough time to get everything done. This week I hit Publix only. They had alot of great produce deals going on and I had a $4 off $20 Produce coupon from a Kroger home mailer and a $1.50 off berries Publix coupon. After coupons and sales, I ended up with $51 dollars of fresh produce for $27.

I've been busy preparing and freezing much of it for later use.

The sale I shoppped at Publix is now over (sorry - just couldn't get it posted before) but several of the produce deals are still going on this week.

Total for week: $46.81

Weekly Grocery Wrap Up

This was a big week at the grocery store. I hadn't been grocery shopping in over 2 weeks! I've been sick and so much other stuff going on that I just couldn't go. Hubs did get a few things to tide us over and over the course of the 2 weeks spent about $40.

The items I am buying are evolving some now. My family is transitioning to new work schedules and summer camp that have different lunch requirements. I am searching for nutritious food that is easy , and doesn't require refrigeration or heating. Any suggestions are welcomed and appreciated!

One thing that is saving us on the grocery budget is our garden! We're actually eating out of our garden. So far, we've harvested lettuce, radishes, onions, and peas.

I shopped Kroger and Publix this week. I am not going to list out the Publix deals because the sale ended today so no one could use the information anyway. I will point out a couple of deals at Kroger that I did:

Kraft Salad Dressing
Sale Price: $1.66 ea
- .55/1 SS 5/2 or printable
= $1.11 ea
Receive a catalina coupon for $1 when you buy 2,
$2 when you buy 3 or
$3 when you buy 4
(if you buy 4, use the .55 coupon , it makes it .36 ea)

Harvestland Chicken (all natural chicken)
Sale: 25% off
Use $1 off $5 fresh chicken coupon from Kroger My Magazine "Taking On the World" home mailer.
Makes for a good deal
Total for week: $ 77.57 Not as bad as I expected. Hopefully the budget will all even out at the end of the month.

Weekly Shopping Wrap Up

This was a BIG shopping week for me. I didn't realize how much stuff we were out of until I started to plan my menu for the week (will post later). So, needless to say, I went over budget, but I think we needed everything I got, and I didn't do too bad.

Here are the highlights:

Kroger:

All Detergent
Sale Price: $2.99
- 2/1 RP 5/16
= .99 cents

Green Giant boxed Veggies
Sale Price: .88 ea
- .60/3 3/28 SS
- .50/2 Cellfire (no longer available)
= .51 cents each

Keebler Pecan Sandies
Sale Price: $2.67
- $1/1 Printable- $3 WYB 3 ** automatically comes off at register
= .67 ea

Zucchini
.98/lb

Summer Squash
.98/lb

Total OOP: $17.91

Publix:I actually made two trips to Publix this week because I really wanted the penny item on Wednesday -- it was toilet paper. But I wasn't ready to do my full shop so, basically I gathered up all my "free" coupons and purchased enough to get me to the $10 requirement and then used my coupons to only be out of pocket just the tax.

Hunts Ketchup
Sale Price: $1.15
- FREE coupon from ALL YOU Magazine Reality Checkers (had to sign up)
= FREE

Publix Ice Cream
$3.99
- FREE coupon from Kroger Mailer
= FREE

Publix Frozen Corn
$1.39
- FREE coupon from Kroger Mailer
= FREE

Publix Greenwise Toilet Tissue 4 pack
$2.38
- Penny Item Promotion
= .01

Yoplait GoGurt
Sale Price: $1.40
- $1.10 Printable
= .30 ea

Blue Diamond Almonds
Sale Price: $1.60 ea
- .50/1 (doubled) Printable
= .60 ea

Welches 100% Juice
Sale Price: $1.90
- $1/1 SS 2/7 and Printable
= .90 ea

Northland Cranberry Juice
Sale Price: $1.97
- $1/2 Printable
= $1.47

Newman's Own Natural Pasta Sauce
Sale Price: $1.99
- $1/1 Printable
= .99 cents ea

Ortega Whole Grain Taco Shells
Sale Price: $1.50
- $1/2 May - All You Magazine
= $1.00 ea

9 Lives canned cat food 4-pk
Sale Price: .88 ea
- $1/3 April All You Mag
= .55 per 4 pk

Total OOP w/ tax: 24.19


Aldi

2lb Carrots
.69

1 lb Baby Carrots
.49 ea

Grape Tomatoes
.99

Roma Tomatoes 8 pk
$1.99

Grapes 2 lbs
$2.98

Dog Biscuits
.99

Mexican Style Corn
.69/can

Total OOP w/ Tax: $11.63

Whole Foods I'm starting to incorporate Whole Foods into my shopping more and more. I only look for the best deals on organic and all natural foods.

Organic Pinto Beans from the Bulk Bin
.99/lb

Organic Black Beans from the Bulk Bin
.99/lb

Domino Carbon Free Sugar 4 lb bags
.99 ea

Organic honey baked Turkey
Sale Price: $8.49/lb
1/2 lb 4.50

Total OOP w/ Tax: $13.33

TOTAL FOR WEEK: $70.55
Savings w/ coupons and sales: $128 or 64%
Over budget, but I feel better about being my pantry being stocked.

Weekly Shopping Wrap up

This week I did something a little different. I am moving toward trying to buy more organic, and local foods so I added the Farmer's Market to my shopping mix this week. My main focus for organic and all natural is meat and dairy. I've been purchasing free range eggs from a local farmer for a year now, and this week I added milk to my list. I purchased 3 gallons of milk from Hatcher Farm, a local dairy farm. Their milk is all natural and comes from cows who actually graze in a field and not forced to stand in a milk factory eating corn (which is not what cows are supposed to eat!)

Now, Hatcher milk is not cheap! I've been looking at it for a while, and pricing it in different stores and online. It averages $6 dollars a gallon! I'll let you pick yourself up off the floor.......
But, here's the deal I found: At the Franklin Farmer's market, if you purchase 3 gallons or more at a time, you can get it for $5 dollars a gallon. Still a huge difference from the average $2 a gallon a Kroger. But, I know exactly where this milk came from and feel confident about no hormones, antibiotics, etc in the milk my family is drinking. Now, my family cannot drink 3 gallons of milk before it goes bad. So I am freezing the extra for later. I've frozen milk before with no issue, you just have to pour off a little from the top of the jug so that the milk has room to expand when it freezes. I'm hoping this frugal experiment doesn't blow up in my face!

Total OOP: $22.50

I also shopped Whole Foods and purchased:
2lbs Organic Corn Meal from the bulk bins: .99/lb sale
1/2 lb Applegate Organic Herbed Turkey breast. $7.99/lb sale -- yes! that was a sale price!
** Note: it's expensive! But it is the best sliced turkey I've ever had!

Total OOP: $6.35

Publix:

Velveeta Shells Dinner
Sale Price: $1.67
- $1/1 Kroger Catalina
= .67

Celery
Sale Price: .75

Peter Pan PB
Sale Price: $1.17
- $1.50/4 Printable
= .79 ea

8 O'clock Coffee
Sale Price: $2.50
- $2/2 Printable
= $1.50 ea

Greenwise Organic Soy Milk
Sale Price: $2.69

Total OOP: $21.53

Kroger:

Potatoes 10lb
Sale Price: $2.49

Organic Sugar
Sale Price: $2.05

Organic Bananas
Sale Price: .59/lb

Total OOP: $6.70

Grand Total for week: $57.08

Weekly Grocery Wrap Up - The Great Flood!

This week has been unlike anything I've ever experienced. We've been in our home since Saturday, unable to leave because of flood waters and washed out roads. I did finally venture out on Monday evening to survey the damage and grab some groceries. My budget is blown because of the extra water and other supplies we decided to get because of the flood and potential contaminated water supply (you can see some of our stockpile in the background of the picture).

I'm not going to bother to breakdown my purchases this week. The publix sale cycle ends today, to see my grocery list with coupon matches go here. We made a couple different trips at different times to the grocery and not all our purchases are in the picture.

Grand total: $67.67

Total Savings with coupons and sales: $66.38

Percent Saved: 50%

Weekly Grocery Wrap Up

It's been a very busy day, so I'm going to only give the highlights of my shopping this week. And I must mention that I ran into a very uncoupon-friendly cashier at Publix today. I'm used to it at Kroger and other stores, but I never have a problem at Publix. She questioned almost every coupon I had and went over my Pedigree coupons with a fine tooth comb. The coupons made my dogfood free and I think she was determined not to let me have them for free. She even asked the CS Supervisor about it, and he said it was fine. She begrudgingly accepted them. Maybe she was just having a bad day, or had previously been burned on someone using coupons incorrectly, but she certainly made me feel like a criminal today. Oh well! I still got free dog food!


Kroger highlights:

Apples .99/lb

Blackberries $1.00

Kroger Sour Cream $1.00

Kroger Cottage Cheese $1.00

Ortega Tortillas (most of the Ortega Products on on sale, and the printable coupon is good for any Ortega item)
Sale Price: $1.67
- $1/2 Printable
= $1.17 ea

4 Sunday Tennesseans
Monday Markdown Price: $1.00
= $4.00

Total OOP: $15.63


Publix Highlights:

Mahatma Rice
Sale Price: .99
- .50/1 RP 4/25
= FREE

Cascadian Farms Organic Cereal
Sale Price: $1.99
- 1/1 Printable
- $2/3 Publix "find deals that make your earth day" or printable
= .33 ea

Snyder Hanover Organic Pretzel Sticks
Sale Price: $2.00
- .50/1 (doubled) SS 4/11
- .50/1 Publix "find deals that make your earth day" or printable
= .50 ea

Cheez Its
Sale Price: $1.60
- $2/2 Tearpad coupon
= .60 ea


DelMonte Fruit Chillers (8 pack)
Sale Price: $1.67
- $1/1 Printable
= .67 ea

McCormick Italian Seasoning
Sale Price: $2.50
- $1/1 RP 4/25
- .55/1 Publix "find deals that make your earth day" or printable
= .95

Shout
Sale Price: $1.50
- .55/1 SS 3/21
= .95

Total OOP: $15.63

Aldi Highlights

Broccoli bunch .99
Strawberries .99
Sprinkes .25 clearance
Sprinkles 4-pk .75 clearance
Tomato Paste .39 ea
Easter Ginger Bread House kit 1.99 clearance (guess what our craft project for the week is!)

Total OOP: $13. 85


And my favorite purchase of the day........



Pedigree Dog Food 4.4 lb
Sale Price: $3.99
- $4/1 coupons from Ebay several months ago
= 12 bags for FREE
Our dog Joey was very excited about this purchase!

TOTAL OOP: $45.11 Whoo Hoo! 2 weeks in a row that I am waaay below budget! Yeah!

Weekly Grocery Wrap Up!

I hit more than my usual 2 stores this week. I hit 4! I also caved on the no processed foods kick that I'm on right now, because Tombstone Pizza's were such a great deal at Publix. Oh well, it's a long journey to go completely processed food free!

Kroger:

2 Purex Detergent
Sale Price: $2.50 ea
- .35/1 RP 4/18(doubled)
- B1G1 Free (Kroger Home Mailer) The register took off the full price, not the sale price! Who am I to argue?? :)
= Both FREE

Kroger Baby Carrots
Sale Price: $1.00
- .50/1 Kroger Home Mailer
= .50

Grapes
Sale Price: .99/lb
= $1.56

8th Continent Soy Milk
Sale Price: $2.49
- $1.50/1 Printable
= .99

Kroger Milk
Manager Markdown: $1.26

Kroger Ibuprofen
Sale: $1.00

Total OOP: $7.54

Publix:

4 Tombstone Frozen Pizzas
Sale Price: $1.89
- $3/2 Tearpad coupons found last month in store
= .39 ea

2 Hunts Ketchup
Sale Price: .88 ea

8 Peter Pan Peanut Butter
Sale Price: $1.17 ea
- $1.50/4 Printable
= .79

Neosporin
Reg Price: $3.99
- .50/1 (doubled)
= $2.99

Total OOP: $14.42

Target:

DelMonte Canned Vegetables
Sale Price: .50 ea
- $1/8 RP 3/21
= .37 ea

Diamond Crystal Kosher Salt
Sale Price: .99

Just Bare Chicken
Sale Price; $3.99

Bell Peppers
Sale Price: .79 ea

Total OOP: $12.46

Aldi

5lb Baking Potatoes .99

Strawberries 16 oz .99

Romaine Lettuce $1.99

Roma Tomatoes $1.99

Salsa $1.69

Total OOP: $8.24

GRAND TOTAL $42.66 Not an exciting week for deals for me, so I'm glad I came in waaaay under budget!

Weekly Grocery Wrap up

Not a really exciting week as far as deals. I find that as I am cooking from scratch more and more, my grocery volume is going down. Which is good, but I wish my out of pocket expense was going down more!

I am proud of my Springer Mountain Farm Chicken that I found on sale at Publix. I finally got to use those $1.50 coupons from a few weeks ago.

Kroger:
Kroger Frozen Corn on Cob

Price: $2.28

- Free coupon from Kroger Mailer

= FREE

T Marzetti Salad Dressing

Price: $4.49

- Free coupon from Kroger Mailer

= FREE

Kroger Reusable Bag

Sale Price: .50

- Free bag Credit from Design a Bag Contest

= FREE

3 Sunday Tenesseeans

Monday Markdown Price: $1.00

Dried Garbanzo Beans

Sale Price: .99

Dried Black Beans

Sale Price: $1.20

Mission Tortillas

Reg Price: $2.29

King Arthur Whole Wheat Flour (excited to finally find this on sale)

Sale Price: $3.59

Kroger Organic All Purpose Flour

Sale Price: $3.54

Total OOP: $17.56

PUBLIX:

Mahatma Rice

Sale Price: .99

- .50/1 Printable (doubled)

= FREE

Northland 100% Cranberry Juice

Sale Price: $1.97

8th Continent Soy Milk

Price: $2.79

- $1.50/1 Printable

= $1.29

Publix Milk

Price: $1.69

Pompein Extra Virgin Olive Oil

Sale Price: $6.25

- $1/1 Printable

= $5.25

Springer Mountain Whole Chicken

Sale Price: $6.71

- $1.50/1 SS 3/7

= $5.21

Springer Mountatin Whole Chicken

Sale Price: $6.88

- $1.50/1 SS 3/7

= $5.38

Total OOP: $25.04

Aldi

2 Cantelopes .99 ea
1 pk Strawberries .99 ea
1 (4 pack) Pears .99
3 lbs Bananas $1.28
Salsa $1.69
Tomato Paste $.39
Total OOP: $7.89

GRAND TOTAL FOR WEEK: $50.49

Weekly Grocery Wrapup

I thought it was going to be kind of a slow week with grocery shopping. But it turned out to be pretty good. I got lots of free stuff! And, I was able to score some organic milk for cheap! Well, cheap for organic milk, that is...

Kroger:
I did 3 transactions at Kroger so I could roll my Betty Crocker Potato catalinas.

Tranaction #1
3 Betty Crocker Instant Potato Pouches
Reg Price: $1.09
- .40/1 Printable (doubled)
- .40/1 Shortcuts e-coupon
= .16 ea + Catalina for $3 off next purchase of anything.

Transaction #2
4 Sunday Tennesseans
$1.00 Monday Markdown Price

3 Betty Crocker Instant Potato Pouches
Reg Price: $1.09
- .40/1 Printable
= .29 ea + $3 dollar catalina

Fleishman Yeast Pack
FREE (because it rang up at wrong price and I caught it)

- $3 Catalina from Transaction 1
= $3.09

Tranaction #3
4 Bags of Easter Candy (for my daughter's Birthday Pinata)
Clearance Price: $1.50 ea
- $1 off $5 dollar candy purchase store coupon from Kroger home mailer
- $3 Catalina
= $2.46

Total OOP: $6.18

Publix

Bayer Baby Aspirin
Reg Price: $2.19
- $1/1 SS 3/21
- $2/1 Publix Green Flyer
= FREE + Overage

7 UP 2-Liter
Sale Price: .79 ea
- $1/1 Printable (have to play game)
= FREE + Overage

Dawn Dish Soap
Reg Price: $1.49
- .50/1 P&G 4/4 (doubled)
- .50/1 Publix q in P&B Future Friendly Book
= FREE

Publix Reusable Grocery Bag
Reg Price: .99
- Free bag when you buy 2 P&G items from P&G Future Friendly Book
= FREE

Mahatma Rice
Reg Price: .99
- .50/1 2/7 RP(doubled)
= FREE

Pam Cooking Spray
Sale Price: $1.45
- .35/1 SS 3/28 (doubled)
= .75 ea

Northland 100% Juice
Sale Price: $1.97 ea (kinda bummed - there was a $1 printable for this, but it was out of prints before I got to it)

Organic Valley Milk
Sale Price: $3.50
- $1/1 Printable
- .75/1 Publix Winter GreenWise Magazine
= $1.75 ea

Pompein Extra Virgin Olive Oil
Sale Price: $6.25
- $1/1 Printable
= $5.25

Yellow Squash and Zucchini
Sale Price: .99/lb

$50 BP Gas Card
- $10 off when you purchase $25 in groceries (in Publix ad circular)
= $40.00

Total OOP: $20.00 even! (I do not count the gas card in my grocery totals)


Aldi

Baby Carrots
.49 ea

Strawberries 16 oz
.99 ea

Pineapple
.99 ea

10lb Russet Potatoes
$1.49

Romaine Lettuce
$1.99

Roma Tomatoes
$2.49

Total OOP: $10.15

Grand Total for week: $39.81 Actually, this will not be my final grand total, I realized tonight that I have to buy dog food. So, that will put me at least at $49 for the week. But, still not too bad!

Weekly Grocery Wrap up

Not a great week for the ole budget. There were just items that we needed and I either did not have the the best coupon available for them or not a coupon at all! Oh, and I bought meat. I only buy humanely raised and organic and/or natural meat. So it's always expensive, even when it's on markdown. Here are the highlights of my shopping.

Kroger:

Ziploc Freezer Bags
Sale Price: $2.50
- .40/1 (doubled) from 3/21 SS
= $1.70 ea
Received $2.00 off next purchase of anything catalina

Kroger Onion salt, onion powder, minced onions, garlic powder,
Sale Prices: $1.87 - $2.87

2 packs Harvestland Cagefree Natural Chicken Legs
Markdown Price: $1.83 & $2.00

4 Sunday Tennesseans
Monday Markdown: $1.00 ea

Kroger Milk
Markdown $1.38

Kroger Cottage Cheese
Sale Price: $1.00

Total OOP: $27.02

Publix:

Birds Eye Frozen Vegetables
Sale Price: $.89 - $1.19
- .50/1 SS 3/21
= FREE +overage or .19 ea

Lysol Neutra Air
Sale Price: $1.79 (rain check from last week)
- $1.50/1 SS 3/7
= .29 ea

Dole Pineapple
Sale Price: .60 ea
- .55/1 SS 3/21
= .33 ea

Kraft Cheese Shreds
Sale Price: $1.66
- $1/2 Blinkie
= $1.16 ea

Sue Bee Honey
Price: $2.99

Ocean Spray Cranberry Juice
Sale Price: $2.70

Publix Soda
Sale Price: .50 ea

Total OOP: $12.66

Aldi Highlights

Cantelope .99 ea
Pineapple .99 ea
Broccoli $1.89
Bananas 3lbs $1.16
Romaine Lettuce (3) $1.99
Green Peppers (3) $2.49
100% Cranberry Juice: $2.49
Peanuts $1.99

Total OOP: $25.26 That's the most I've ever spent at Aldi's in one trip! But I just went ahead and bought several items that we were out of and I saw no good deals on at other stores.

Whole Foods

2 Everyday 365 Peanut Butter
Price: $1.79
- $1/1 Store Coupon Printable
= .79 ea

3lbs Natural Ground beef
Markdown Price: $10.35

3lbs Organic Chicken thighs
Markdown: $6.39

Total OOP: 19.69


Grand Total for Week: $84.63 Ouch! Will have to do better next week.

Weekly Grocery Wrap-up

This was a week for free Snickers, cheap Kashi, Whole Grain Bread and Organic chicken!

Kroger Trip 2 (yea, I'm doing this backwards)

Garden of Eatin Organic Blue Corn Tortilla Chips
Sale Price: $2.00
- $1/1 Printable
= $1.00 ea

8th Continent Soy Milk
Sale Price: $2.49
- $1.50 Printable
= .99

Cage Free Eggs
Manager Markdown .79

2 Harvestland Cage free whole chickens
Manager Markdown $6.04 ea

4 Sunday Tennesseans
Monday Markdown Price: $1.00 ea

Total: $21.69

Publix:

Uncle Ben's Whole Grain & Wild Rice
Sale Price: 1.00
- $1/1 RP 2/21
= FREE

Scooby Doo One A Day Vitamins
Sale Price: $4.26
- $2.50/1 Publix Q from Publix Family Style Magazine
- $2./1 SS 1/03
= FREE + overage

Kashi Honey Sesame Cracker
Reg Price: $3.29
- FREE Kashi Crackers wyb 2 Kashi Cereals Printable
= FREE

Kashi Go Lean Crunch Bars
Sale Price: $3.50
- FREE Kashi Bars wyb 2 Kashi Cereals Printable
= FREE

6 Kashi Cereals
Sale Price: $2.50
- Free Kashi cereal VocalPoint Mailer
- $1.50/1 Kashi VocalPoint Mailer
= FREE - $1.00 ea

Bananas 2.8 lbs
$1.65
- $1.00 off Produce Publix home mailer
= .65

Muellers Whole Wheat Pasta
Sale Price: .74
- .55/1 Printable
= .19 ea

V8 Fusion Juice
Sale Price: $1.99
- .50/1 (doubled) SS 3/14
= .99 ea

All Small & Mighty Detergent
Sale Price: $2.99
- $2/1 RP 2/7
= .99 ea

$50 BP Gas Card
- $10 off Gas Card with $25 Grocery Purchase (publix in ad coupon)
= $40.00

= $59.22 ($40 of that is the Gas card, which is not part of my grocery budget)
= $19.22 Groceries



Kroger Trip #1

14 Snickers (yea, I went a little overboard, but they were free! And Snickers freeze well)
Sale Price: .50
- .50/2 (doubled) RP 2/21
= FREE

7 Healthy Life Whole Grain Bread (bread will freeze too)
Sale Price: $1.66
- .50/1 (doubled) SS 1/03
= .66 ea

Reynolds Aluminum Wrap 100% Recycled
Closeout Price: $1.49
- .50/1 (doubled) Printable
= .49 ea

RW Knudsen Organic Juice
Sale Price: $1.97
- $1/1 Printable (available when purchased Annie's Organic Products)
= .97 ea

Crisco Vegetable Shortening
Sale Price: $2.50

Total OOP: $11.15

Grand Total for week: $52.06 Yea! Under budget! But, I think I'm going to CVS to get the deal on Pullups later, so I'll probably be right at $60 for the week.

Weekly Grocery Wrap-up

It was a unimpressive sales/coupon week for me. Not alot got me excited, except for the cheap alumininum foil at Kroger and the .69 3 lb onions at Aldi's (yea, I may have went a little overboard with the onions, I can still smell them in the car)

Here is a short synopsis of what I got:

Kroger:Note: Kroger is having a Mega Sale this week. Buy 8 participating items, get $4.00 off at checkout. I did do this deal, but since I'm getting us off of processed food as much as possible, it was not as exciting for me as in the past.

Kraft Shredded Cheese
Mega Sale Price: $1.67
- $1/1 Kroger Coupon Mailer
= .67

Del Monte Canned Tomatoes (FYI.. some of the differnt styles have High Fructose Corn Syrup, so check the label if that is a concern for you)
Mega Sale Price: .49
- $1/4 RP 2/7
= .24 ea

Annie's Organic Mac n cheese
Mega Sale Price: .49 ea

Reynolds Wrap 100% Recycled Alumininum foil
Closeout Price: $1.49
- .50/1 (doubled) printable
= .49 ea

8th Continent Soy Milk
Sale Price: 2.49
- $1.50/1 Printable
= .99

4 Sunday Tennesseans
Monday Markdown Price: $1.00 each

Total OOP: $28.41

Publix:
Publix Milk
Sale Price: $2.69
- $1/1 Publix Home Mailer
= $1.69

Old El Paso Green Chilis
Reg Price: $1.35
- $1/2 Publix in Ad coupon
- $.55/1 Printable
= .30 ea

Flat Out Flat Breads
Sale Price: $1.45
- $1/2 Publix q in "Healthy Meals for Healthy Kids" flyer
= .95 ea

Green Cabbage
Sale Price: .29/lb
= .45

Rico Rice 3lb
Sale Price: .99

Total OOP: $6.19

Aldi's Highlights
3 lb bag Onions (3 bags - I chop them up and freeze them for later recipes)
.69 ea

5lb bag Red potatoes
.99

2lb bag of Carrots (2 bags - I can chop/shred these for later recipes)
.49

100% Cranberry Juice
$2.50

2 1/2 lbs Bananas
.84

Total OOP: $14.82

Total for Week: $49.42

Weekly Shopping Wrap Up

This was a light shopping week. Not only am I trying to make up for my large budget overage from last week, I also sustained a back injury that pretty much rendered me useless for the past few days. In fact, if it weren't for the hubs, I wouldn't have even gotten this much.

Publix:

4 Birds Eye Steamfresh Vegetables
Sale Price: .89-$1.19
- .35/1 (doubled) SS 2/28
-$1/2 Publix Yellow Advantage Flyer
= FREE + Overage

4 Bertolli Pasta Sauce
Sale Price: $1.47 ea
- .75/1 RP 2/14
- 1/2 “Multiply Your Meals” booklet (Publix coupon)
= .22 ea

Rico Rice 3 lbs
Sale Price: .99

Ocean Spray Cranberry Juice
Sale Price: $1.79

Fresh Strawberries
Sale Price: $1.66

Total: $11.21

Aldi's Highlights:

Bananas 2.5 lbs .94
Pineapple .99
Grapes 2lbs 1.98
Assorted other fruits, veggies and some snacks, nothing noteworthy
Total: $13.87


Kroger:
Milk $1.69
4 Sunday Papers: $1.00 ea (Markdown)
Total: 5.82

Grand Total For week: $30.90

Weekly Grocery Wrap Up

For a while now, I've been trying to pay cash only for my groceries to help me stay on track with the budget. I didn't do that this week, used the debit card. And, boy did I get in trouble! I've upped my budget to $60 a week, and I think that knowing that, along with a debit card, made me lose track of things. And of course I'm trying to only buy healthier and non-processed foods; although I've found that to be impossible, especially when it comes to snack items (there's only so much fruit you can make your kids eat)

Publix Trip #1

Progresso Broth
Sale Price: $1.30 (Rain check from last week)
- .50/1 Printable
- $1/4 Publix q
= .05 ea

Hunts Tomato Sauce
Sale Price: .33 ea
- $1/5 Home Mailer
= .13 ea

Juice Juice
Sale Price: $1.82
- $1/2 Printable (sign up for Nestle Newsletter)
= $1.32 ea

Ronzoni Orzo Pasta
Sale Price: .70

Gatorade
$7.99

Total OOP: $25.25

Publix Trip #2
Special K Granola Cereal
Sale Price: $1.76 (Rain Check price from a few weeks ago)
- $1/1 Printable (No longer available)
= .76 ea

Dannon Light & Fit Yogurt
Price: .50
- FREE Dannon Yogurt when you buy Special K Granola Cereal (tearpad found at Kroger)
= FREE

Fresh Strawberries
Sale Price: $1.67

Total OOP: $7.33

Kroger
Healthy Lifestyle Bread
Sale Price: $1.66
- .50/1 (doubled) 1/3 SS
= .66 ea

8th Continent Soy Milk
Sale Price: $2.49
- $1.50/1 Printable
= .99

Kroger Milk - quart
Sale Price: $1.25

Pears
Sale Price: .77/lb
$1.56

10 lbs Potatoes
Sale Price: $2.28

Kroger Cow Pals String Cheese
Sale Price: $2.50

Kroger Dishwasher Detergent
Price: $2.15

Quinoa Grain
Sale Price: $4.29

4 Sunday Newspapers
Reduced Price: $1.00 ea
Total OOP: $21.86

Aldi's
Various Fruits & Veggies
Dried Fruit Snacks
Snack Crackers
Total OOP: $19.93

CVS
Soft Soap Body Wash
Sale Price: $4.99
- $1/1 from All You - March Edition

Ocean Spray 100% Cranberry Juice
Sale Price: $2.50

- $6 ECBs
Total OOP: $1.06, earned $4 ECBs

TOTAL OOP: $75.43

Weekly Shopping Wrapup

This week is the beginning of less processed foods, more whole foods. Which of course, means more work for me in the kitchen. But after enduring the health issues that I and my family members have had lately, I think it's worth it. I've come to the conclusion that there is no way I will be able to make this transition on just $40 a week (my preferred budget) and this week I went over my real budget of $50 a week. I'm still going to try to not go over $50 but I've managed to squeeze an extra $10 into our weekly grocery budget for this purpose.

I hit 3 stores in one day, with my 4-year old in tow. Somehow we made it through alive.

Publix:
I didn't make it to the store until the last day of their sale, so alot of what I wanted was gone. I did manage to get a raincheck. Publix is pretty good about giving rainchecks, but I've noticed lately they are pretty strict on limiting the number of items you can get.

2 Muir Glen Organic Tomatoes
Price: $1/50
- $1/1 Printable
- $1/2 Publix Q Printable
= FREE

4 Progresso Soups
Price: $1.15 ea
- .50/2 (doubled)SS 1/17
-$1/4 Publix Q
= .40 ea

12 Muellers Pasta
Sale Price: .75 ea
- $1/3 Printable
=.42 ea

Rico Rice 3 lbs
Sale Price: .99

Lentils 1 Lb
Price: .99

Total OOP w/ tax: $11.86

Kroger:

Cucumbers
Sale Price: .44 ea

8th Continent Soy Milk
Sale Price: 2.49
- 2/1 Printable (no longer available)
= .49

Healthy Lifestyle Whole Wheat Bread
Sale Price: 1.67
- .35/1 (doubled) 2/7 SS
= .97

Kroger Natural Granola Cereal
Sale Price: $1.67
- .45/1 Kroger Home Mailer
= $1.22

Kroger Cottage Cheese
Sale Price: $1.00

Kroger Sour Cream
Sale Price: $1.00

Ocean Spray Cranberry Juice cocktail
Sale Price: $1.98

Kroger Organic Flour
Price: $3.79

Martha White Corn Meal
$1.59

Kroger Organic Sugar
Sale Price: $2.05

Almonds
$2.99

Total OOP: 26.17


Aldi's

3 lbs Oranges $1.39
Baby Carrots .99 ea
Spinach 1.69
Bananas 2.5 lbs 1.02
Roma Tomatoes $1.49
Romaine Hearts $1.99
3 lbs Onions $1.29
2 Frozen Juice $1.24 ea

Total OOP: $14.36


Grand Total: $52.39