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