Kroger Super Deals

10 cereal 10 1/1 q's

1 milk

4 Keebler cookies 2 1/2 q's

4 Fruit Snacks 2 1/2 q's

*Plus I got $4 off every 4 participating items, so $12 off

Total: $14.58

Changes...

So a lot has changed here recently. We've finally finished moving to Colorado and are in the process of restocking our fridge and freezer. Since becoming pregnant I have had a hard time finding things to eat, because of numerous cravings and aversions. So after much thought and talking with the hubby I've decided to up our grocery budget. Also I will no longer be showing every trip made to the store, but will rather show the deals I got using coupons, sales and promotions. Life brings changes and here I am trying to adapt with the change.

Moving

So we're in the process of moving so we have been eating out...a lot. No couponing at all, weird. I leave tomorrow to spend a couple weeks with my family while the hubby gets settled in his new job and finds us a place to live :)


Total spent: 57.27
Left for the month: 109.39

Trip Food

So we just got back from a long week trip to CA for a family reunion. It was costly but well worth it. *Just a side note, yes I realize I went over this month, however my goal was 2000 for the year, so as long as it averages out over the year I am ok. These pregnancy cravings have been driving me crazy!!

Total: 37.31

Odds and ends

2 Kashi waffles 1.50 q's
1 target cereal
1 waffle fries (for father's day dinner!)
ice
o.j.

Total: 4.98
Left: 5.38

Weekly Walmart Trip

Not much to blog about but I was able to snag some A1 Steak Sauce for .08 after coupons and some .78/lb ground beef!

Total: 21.75
Left: 10.36

Yes another treat

Pizza and Jamba Juice

Total: 8.95
Left: 32.11

Entertaining and cravings

So we've been entertaining several friends this past week, and therefore have needed things that we normally wouldn't buy, like expensive cuts of meat, etc. Also it turns out I'm pregnant! Great news, but the cravings have been crazy! Chocolate milk, donuts, expensive cereal, cinnamon raisin bagels, etc. So don't be surprised if I go over this month! :)

4 Corn on the cob 3/$1
2 Honey Ohms cereal
2 baked beans
2 Crispix (my latest craving)
apples
salad
lemon extract
beef brisket

Total: $28.60
Left: $41.06

Walmart and cheap fruit

Total: 25.03
Left for the month: $69.66

Once in a blue moon..

Taco Bell and Jamba Juice

total: 10.18

Camping and Cafe Rio

So I picked up just a few things that we needed for our camping trip last weekend:

1 eggs
4 Hot Tamales
1 tortilla chips

Total: 5.75

And then when that didn't work out we went and got Cafe Rio!


Grand total: 22.14

Albies doubles and more...

Albertsons

Spend $10, save $3 promo (price is after the promo)
3 Pizzas 1.75 $1 doubled
2 Kraft cheese 1.50 $1/2 doubled
1 Queso
1 Hot dogs Free coupon from manufacturer
2 packs Jello pudding 1.75 $1/2 coupon

Maceys

Highlights:
4 candy bars 2 B1g1 free q's combinbed with 2 FREE Q'S=FREE
8 yogurt .30 each
baby carrots .79
4 tuna .50 ea

Walmart-For those of you who are looking for a simple way to save money I would HIGHLY suggest price-matching. This is the first time I've done it and I highly recommend it!


2 Cool Whip 1.00 1/2 q
2 Hummus price matched (pm) at 1.99
French Bread .50
Broccoli pm'd at .33/lb
Peaches pm'd at .50/lb
Kashi Waffles free coupon
Kashi Frozen Entree free coupon
Banannas pm'd at .33/lb
Strawberries .88 ea
3 lbs. bulk granola (not pictured) 1.99/lb.

Grand Total: $39.65
Left for the month: 127.01

This is what happens when you don't stick to your list

Buy-Lo Market- Highlights
2 Wheat Thins 1.68 $1 coupon
24-pk water 2.69
1 Vitamin Water 1.00 $1 coupon
Bananas .33/lb
Apples .33/lb

Total: 35.49

Wednesday shopping and night's out

I STILL can't find my camera so sorry but you get it in list form again.

Buy-Low
2 cutlery .69
2 buns .68
whipped cream
Pork roast .99/lb
lettuce
tomatoes

Albertsons
Spray n Wash .50 doubled
Honey graham cracker $1 doubled
paper plates
paper cups

Walmart
2 strawberries .99 ea
24-pk Dr. Pepper

Total: 20.52

We've treated ourselves the past week because we've got lots of money left for the month.

Jamba Juice 4.74
Little Caesars 5.39
Taco Bell 7.84

Grand total: 38.49
Left for the month: 37.18

Quick trip to Walmart

3 BBQ sauce .98 $1 qs
5 Halls cough drops free qs
2 skor bars
1 curry powder
1 can tomateos
1 graham crackers $1 q
6 Jello 3 1/2 q's= .17 ea
1 olive oil
1 Veletta cheese loaf $1 q

Total: 14.65

Albies Doubles

No picture sorry.. I couldn't find my camera at the time.

Lowdown:

2 Ritz Toasted chips 1.99 $1 doubled
1 milk
1 Yocrunch single cup yogurt free coupon
2 cream cheese .88 $1/2 doubled
1 mozzarella cheese .88
1 baguette bread free coupon
macademia cookies free coupon
1 BC cookie mix 1.50 .60 doubled
2 Yo-plus yogurt 1.50 1.50 q
2 frozen veggies 1.00 .50 q doubled
4 Kraft Mac n cheese cups 1.00 $1/2 doubled
2 mayo 3.99 each $1/2 doubled
2 jolly time popcorn 1.39 .50 doubled
2 Bar s franks b1g1 at 2.29 $1 doubled
2 Ritz crackers .88
2 Suave hair products 1.00 ea $1/2 doubled
2 Veleeta pasta mixes 1/2 doubled
2 A1 marinades $1 doubled

Total: $10.57!!!
Coupon savings: 51.78

Playing catch-up

Smiths
2 Hummus 1.99 ea

Albertsons
2 milk
3 cheese .88 ea

Rancho Market
3 bread .59 ea
strawberries .99
peaches 2 lbs/.99
granny smith apples 5 lbs/.99
corn on the cob 3 for .99

Grand total: 15.88

Albertsons and Bi-Lo

No picture because when I went to the store this morning my camera's batteries weren't charged.

Lowdown:

4 Kraft BBQ Sauce .70 -.75 off q
1 French Bread -FREE Q
3 Post cereal
20 Yoplait yogurt -final price .42 after q's and promo)

Total: 16.15

Bi-Lo

Lowdown:

Oranges 5 lbs/.99
apples 3 lbs./ .99
Ice Pops 2 for .99
Strawberries .99 each
Lettuce .33 each
Carrots 5 lbs /.99

Total: 5.64

Maceys

Lowdown:

Nothing too exciting to report, just more milk, bread and produce since it's the beginning of a new month. There's one more gallon of milk not pictured.

Total: 28.10

Highlights
1 french bread -FREE Q (Not pictured)
4 McCormick Steak and meat seasonings- .25 after q
1 Quaker Quakes- FREE
4 Cereal- .49 after 1/1 Q
2 Salad dressings- FREE

Total: $23.76
Left for the month: 12.61 *And we're leaving tomorrow morning to Colorado until next month! YAY!

Free Quaker Quakes and Cheap Ribs

Lowdown:

Highlights

10 lb. flour 3.43
grapes .99
strawberries .99
2 flour tortillas .79 each
11 Quaker Quakes FREE with coupon
Boneless Pork Ribs 1.29/lb.

Total: 19.62

FREE Vitamin Water

Not pictured: 1 Dole salad (.19 after q) 4 Easy Mac (FREE)

Highlights
4 Vitamin Water FREE after q
2 Rhodes frozen rolls 2.34 each
canned fruit .70 after q
yogurt 1.00 after q
popcorn *Has a mail in rebate on it!!

Total: 15.32
Left for the month: 55.99

Sickness and catch-up

Not pictured: Sprite, bananas, 24 pack water, case of 24 fruit bowls

Went to Albertsons to take advantage of the buy $25 worth of items, get $10 of meat free. I used mine towards shrimp. Mmmmmmm. :)

Grand total: 39.96

Buy-Lo Produce

Highlights:

6 Brownie mixes .41 each after q
apples .33/lb.
oranges .33/lb.
grapefruit .33/lb.
pepperoni .91 each

Total:19.48

.34 cereal and beginning of the month madness

Lowdown:

Albertsons
22 boxes cereal-in 4 different transactions
*these were on sale at 1.57 each, $1/2 coupons came out this past sunday AND there's a catalina going on where when you buy 6 boxes you get $5 back!! All of this equals roughly .34 a box!! :)

Total: $10.57

Walmart
4 Activia yogurt $1 after q
5 tuna pouches free after q's
6 kraft salad dressings .08 each after q
2 eggs
2 milk
frozen tilapia
bananas
pudding
3 canned fruit .55/2 q
frozen broccoli
sesame seeds
vinegar

Total: 25.34

Grand total: 35.91
coupons savings: 48.53
store savings: 61.44

Sickness foods

I was sick over the weekend, so I sent Jon out to get Sprite and bananas.

Total OOP: 2.17

Quaker Sale

Lowdown:

5 Quaker Fiber granola bars .49 each after q
3 Quaker True Delights granola bars .49 each after q
1 South Beach granola bars FREE Item q
red grapes .89/lb.
4 gum FREE q
eggs
milk
1 Suave shampoo FREE q
1 shredded cheese 1.49
2 Pillsbury pizza crusts .85 after q
2 4-pack pillsbury biscuits $1 after q
*Plus there was a promotion to get $1 off wyb 4 Pillsbury products


Total: 12.73

Coupon savings: 28.84

Store savings: 20.19

Left for the month: 2.92

Behind again

Yes it appears I'm behind again. To my credit I just got back from a week trip to Texas, which explains the reason I haven't been shopping.

8 lb. Chuck Steak (used $2 q on each pack at Target)
25 lb. bag sugar
9 lb. strawberries (for homemade strawberry jam...yum)
2 bread
2 milk

Total: $34.95
Savings: 30.97

Left for the month: 15.65

More cheese please!

Lowdown:

Albertsons
Buy $25 worth of Kraft items get $10 off instantly sale

1 French Bread FREE with coupon
10 Kraft cheeses 2/$4
2 Triscuit crackers 2/$5
=25.00
-10 off instantly
- 10 .75/1 cheese coupons
- 1 $2/2 cracker coupon

Total: 5.95
*Also a $3 off catalina spat out. Score!

Smiths

Highlights:
.49 salad dressing after q
.49 pasta (awesome price for food storage!)
1.49 milk

Reams (not pictured)
4 lbs. oranges
2 frozen orange juice
1 Dr. Pepper


Grand Total: 37.16
Coupons used: 25.19
Store savings: 53.71

Macey's Case Lot Sale

So a couple good sale items today for the case lot but sadly no coupon deals. Maybe next week?

10 kidney beans .59 ea
10 pinto beans .59 ea
2 green chilis
4 corn .59 ea
3 ranch mixes
2 tuna
1 lettuce
flour tortillas
heavy cream

Total: 24.81

Cheap Produce

I love the new Buy-Low market in our town!

Highlights
10 lbs. potatoes 1.50
Apples 3 lbs. /$1
Oranges 3 lbs. /$1
tomatoes 2 lbs. /$1
vanilla pudding (for my b-day cake:) )

Total: 6.95

Horray a new month!

Hooray I just love a new month!

I'm tired and don't feel like writing down everything I got, but it was ALOT of milk, bread, produce and meat. Also I forgot to put the red grapes and Ensure 6 pack in the picture.

Highlights
$1 Yogurt after q
.99 Beef Back Ribs
1.49 milk
.79/lb. steak
.99 Ritz after q's

Total: 47.14
Coupons used: 6.55

On February's Tally

So all of this goes on February's grocery bill b/c I bought it at the end of last week, I just forgot to put it on here.

clearenced Valentine's candy .99
2 Oreos
1 milk
3 Craisins
1 French Bread Free item coupon
2 Tics-tacs (I only bought these to go positive)

Total: .38 (I used a $10 catalina to pay)

Getting closer

Quick trip to Macey's

Lowdown:

1 milk 1.66!!
1 bread
2 bags clearance Valentine's candy
1 sour cream
Pork Chops (.99/lb.)
1 green pepper
1 red pepper
roma tomatoes

Total: 10.94

I HEART Albertsons

Man I'm sure my cashier loved me today! Albertsons was having a sale when you buy 10 GM sale items you get $10 back. (before coupons mind you). So after 4 different transactions, this was the lowdown:

Trans. #1
5 Nature valley granola bars used 5 .50/1 q's
5 Fruit Roll-up Stickerz used 2 .50/2 q's and 1 .50/1 q

Total after coupons: 18.50
I also got a $10 catalina to use OYNO (on your next order), a $3.50 cat from buy ing 5 granola bars and ANOTHER $3.50 cat from buying 5 Fruit Snacks.

Trans. #2
3 Nature valley granola bars used 3 .50/1 q's
7 Fruit Rollups used 7 .50/1 q's

Total: 21.50
used $17 in cats from previous order and q's to make the total: .50! Plus got an additional $15 in cats.

Trans. #3
8 GM cereal
2 Fruit Snacks

Total: $24-$15 in cats from previous order-3.50 in coupons = 5.50 Recieved $10 more in cats.

Trans. #4
9 GM cereal
1 Chex Mix bars

Total: 25.00-$10 in cats-3.50 in coupons = 11.50

And I still have $10 to spend OYNO!

Grand total: 39.28!
Left to spend for the month: 16.42
Coupons used for this trip: 56.50

The stuff I live off of

Sorry no picture this time folks, just the goods. :)

1 Dr. Pepper
1 Chocolate Fudge Almond Ice cream

Total: 3.34
Left for the month: 55.70

So I'm a bit behind

So coupon and sales haven't been great lately, but I went out a couple days ago for some meat, produce, etc.

Lowdown:

1 lettuce
2 bacon Fritos
5 Grapefruit
Roast
1 Cinnamon Candy
Stuffing mix
Sparkling Cider (for V-day)
2 bread
3 milk
lunch meat
green onions
2 strawberries (for V-day as well!)
2 Progresso soup (.10 overage w/ 1.10/1 coupon)
ketchup
sour cream
10 lbs. ground beef (.99 a lb.)
Red Potatoes
Flour Tortillas

Total: 52.15
Left for the month: 59.04

Yikes! Stay tuned to see if I can make it to March with just $59.04! Now that I'm well stocked on meat I'm fairly confident I'll be able to do it, but we'll see!!

Macey's Moonlight Madness Sale!

So Macey's, a local grocery store, was having a super sale last night. So naturally I went and apparantly so did all of Provo! It was soo crazy that I ended up sharing a shopping cart with a stranger, funny enough by the end of it we were quite good friends.

Lowdown:

case of 24 cream of chicken soups .39 ea after q's
2 chocolate bars .75 ea
3 granola 1.25 ea
6 Ramen .50 total
20 Yogurts 4/$1
6 lbs. apples 1.53 total
8.5 lbs. bananas at 5 lbs./$1
2 basket strawberries 1.50 ea
3 bread .49 ea!!
2.5 lbs. tomatoes at 4 lbs. /$1

Total: 29.33
Left for the month: 111.19

New month and cheap cheese

Hooray for a new month! I am proud to say that I made it through my first month and still had $2.74 left to spend. That's over 60% in savings!

On Monday I went out to score on the cheap cheese at Smiths/Kroger that I kept hearing about.

Lowdown:

1 Miracle Whip
6 Chili .23 ea after q's
1 Ken's salad dressing .49 after q's
3 butter
1 egg noodles
2 cream cheese
10 cheese 1.50-.75 q= .75
4 Nabisco crackers .99 ea with q's
1 Easy Cheese FREE wyb 3 Nabisco crackers
1 Hummus 1.50/1 coupon

Total: 26.14
Coupons used: 24.90
Left for the month: 140.52

Andrew's new toy...courtesy of Target

Lowdown:

6 Tide trial size .97 ea used $1 q's
9 Fiber One granola bars 1.03 ea used 9 .75/1 Target q's and 9 .50/1 Mfr. q's
6 Ocean Spray Juices $2 ea used 6 $1 Target q's and 6 $1 Mfr. q's
1 ABC learning flip book for Andrew

Total OOP: 3.74

**I am not subtracting this total from my budget because all the grocery stuff pictured was free. So while the flip book wasn't completely free, it was heavily discounted because of all the overage I collected. :)

I Heart Catalinas!

So yesterday I was cleaning out my purse and I found a $5 Albertsons catalina! (A catalina is a coupon for money off your next order.) The catch was it expired today so I went out to use it and got the following:




2 Frozen Pizzas- (buy 1 at 6.29, get 1 plus 2 Dr. Peppers FREE)
2 2 liter Dr. Peppers
1 gal. milk
1 Scott TP -FREE after $1 coupon
1 Baby food - clearanced for .39 (I needed a baby item b/c it was a catalina for a baby item)

Total OOP: 3.84
Coupons used: 6.00

Yup, I too get lazy sometimes

So the plan was to have spaghetti, garlic breadsticks and salad for dinner tonight. Yeah well, that was before we burned the breadsticks, and the salad didn't work out so...

We had Taco Bell!

Total OOP: 10.16
Left for the month: 6.58

End of the week produce

I love Reams, they have great sales. So I went out today to take advantage of that and to use my last (tear) $5 catalina at Albies.

Lowdown:

Reams
1 lb. baby carrots
4 lbs. bananas .39 /lb.
2 loaves bread .89 ea
1 hot dog buns
2 packs hot dogs .89 ea

Total OOP: 7.40

Albertsons
2 milk
1 bread

OOP: .84 (after a $5 catalina)

Grand total: $8.24
Left for the month: 16.74

Day out..

So a couple days ago we went out for Obama's Inauguration Ball and spent $14.12 on eating out.

Total OOP: 14.12

Total left for the month: 24.98

FREE before tax trip!

Monday's shopping trip, I love, LOVE shopping trips like this one.

Lowdown:

Kmart
4 Loreal eyeshadows $2 q's doubled
2 Luden's cough drops $1 q's doubled
2 Endust Dusting products $2 q's doubled
4 Trident gum 3 packs $1 q's doubled
2 Hormel complete meals $1 q's doubled

Total OOP: $1.15

Smiths
6 Suave lotion 6 $1 q's
7 Quaker rice snacks 7 $1 q's

Total OOP: .61

Grand Total: 1.76

End of the week shopping..the good and the bad

So last Thursday and spent about half of the $90 I had left for the month..oops.

Lowdown:

Reams (FYI- they usually have the best produce prices)
1 bunch cilatro
romaine lettuce
tomatoes
2 Chocolate ice cream

Total: 6.47

Maceys-case lot/food storage sale
#10 can dried celery (this sucker was by far the most expensive thing I got, but I wanted to add it to my food storage.)
24-pack water
tortilla chips
5 cans turkeys chunks
1 red wine vinegar (I think it's for a roast I have planned for next week)
chili powder
5 jars spaghetti sauce .90 each
7 tuna
3 cake mixes
1 green bell pepper
4 lb. ribs (cookin' in the oven right now! Yum!)

Total: 42.84

Albertsons-save the best for last1 :)
4 Simple Harvest hot cereal .50 ea w/ q
2 Captain Crunch cereal. 50 ea w/ q
2 Life cereal $1 ea w/q
2 lbs. shrimp
2 lbs. red apples

Total: 2.32! (used catalina from previous purchases to pay for the items.)

Grand total: 51.63
Coupon savings for the trip: 50.13
Left for the month: 40.86

1st Hall of Fame for the new year!

So Albertsons is having an absolutely wonderful sale until Wednesday, so if you haven't gone yet I suggest you do so!

Lowdown:

Transaction #1
3 Pampers diapers 3 1.50 q's

Total: 29.73
got $20 in Catalinas for my next order

Trans. #2
3 Pampers diapers 3 1.50 q's

Total: 14.73 after I used a $15 cat to bring it down
got $20 in cats

Trans. #3
4 Fruit snacks 2 1/2 q doubled
6 granola bars 3 1/2 doubled
1 Bisquick .75 q doubled
2 go-gurts 1 1/2 q
3 Yoplait yogurts

Total: 10.17 after using $15 in cats to bring down the total
got $15 in cats

Trans. #4
1 bread
11 Total cereal 11 .75 q's (6 of them doubled)
1 fruit snacks
1 Trident gum (not shown)

Total: .65 after using $15 in cats
got $15 in cats back

Grand total: 55.28-Diapers (43.96) = 11.32!

And I still have $25 in cats to use for my next shopping trip!

Total left for the month: 92.49
Coupon Savings for this trip: 77.50!

The Essentials...

Nothing too spectacular just some stuff that we were out of and was on sale.

Lowdown:

Beef Chuck Roast 1.69 -$2 q
2 milk
2 bread
Sour Patch Kids
2 Cheez-its
2 Corn Chex
4 Cream of Chicken .59 each
Pretzels
3 Blueberries .89 each
2 Cantaloupes $1 each

Total: 24.79
Total left for the month: 103.81

Mountain of Juice and Cereal-Monday

So went to 3 stores this morning and got the following:

Albertsons
12 Juicy Juice $1 q's (plus $3 off wyb 6 bottles=.40 each!)
5 Frosted Flakes $1 q's (.59 ea)

Kmart-double coupon week!!
4 Hormel Complete meals $1 q doubled=free
4 Special K Cereal $1 q doubled=.50
4 Sobe Lifewater .50 q doubled=free
3 Kleenex .40 q doubled=.54

Walgreens
2 packs diapers 5.99 ea.
2 Reynolds warp foil (free w/ q)
1 Electorsol -.50 ($1 after q, plus a 1.50 rebate!)
2 Palmoilve dish soap .55
2 storage bags .99

Total: 12.34 (Total including the diapers and other HH supplies was 31.52, but Baby stuff and HH is other budget and not included with grocery savings)

Total left for the month: 128.60

.18 Ben & Jerry's Ice cream!

Just a quick trip to the store today because I was craving ice cream REALLY bad!

Lowdown:

4 Suave lotions -free after q
1 Worcestershire sauce -free after q
sour cream
pizza crust
4 pints of Ben & Jerrys ice cream -.18 each after 4 $3 q's!

Total OOP: 3.59
Left for the month: 140.94

First shopping trip of the year!

So for the first shopping trip of the year, it's nothing too exciting and I didn't even use any coupons! Gasp! Oh well, maybe next week.

Here's the lowdown:

Maceys
2 loaves bread .99 each
pepperoni 1.69
pasta sauce 1.00
pot roast 4.13 (@1.79/lb,good for this area)
apples 2.07
lettuce 1.39
5 grapefruit 1.00
tomatoes 1.39

Reams
Bananas 1.55 (@.49/lb)
Ground Beef (@1.39/lb)

Total OOP: 22.13
Left for the month: 144.53