Okay so it's Thursday once again, and time to take the boys and hit the grocery stores. Today I only went to Albertsons and Kroger. Tom Thumb has some deals going on, but nothing that really caught my attention. I was able to get great deals on several items that I stock piled to use when money is going to be tight, which will be in a couple of months. Rob was laid off a month ago and started school the same week. It is actually a good thing for us, since he is getting several months of severance pay, which will lower how much money we will have to borrow while he is in school. So while we have money coming in, I am trying to stock pile on as many essentials as possible to use when no money is coming in.
The first store I went to today was Albertsons. Albertsons is have a buy one get one free on practically everything in the store. This is a good opportunity to get 2 items for the price of one and use 2 coupons on top of the sale. Gain dish soap is on the buy one get one free sale. The price of one Gain is 99 cents. We received a dollar off of one Gain dish soap coupon at the beginning of the month. I had two of these coupons, so I decided to get 4 dish soaps. So without the coupons, I would pay under 2 dollars for those 4 dish soaps, but if you take in account the coupons, then I ended up getting the dish soap for FREE!!!! Progresso Vegetable Classic soups are on sale for 99 cents. I had two 50 cents off of any two Progresso soup coupons. Albertsons doubled both of my coupons to make each can 49 cents! Not as good as 25 cents a can, but I will still pay under a dollar for the Progresso Hearty Tomato soup. It will make a cheap meal during the fall and winter months. My family loves to eat grilled cheese and tomato soup. Albertsons does have selected General Mills cereals on sale 3 for $5. We got in last Sunday's paper coupons for $1 off of 3 General Mills cereals. Not as good as the $1 off of 2 you can print from Coupons.com, but my printer is out of ink so I have to make due with what I have. If you do have any $1 off of 2, then you can get each box for $1.17.
My last stop was at Kroger. I could of gotten all my items at Albertsons, but Kroger has Libby canned veggies for 2 for a $1. Since I have lots of $1 off of 3 cans of Libby's veggies coupons, I decided to stock pile of canned veggies for when the money famine hits. I used three of my $1 off of 3 cans coupons, and was able to get nine cans of veggies for $1.50! That is about 17 cents a can! I think I may have to go back on Monday and use another 3 coupons for that price!
There were other items I bought that were on sale, but the ones that I write about are the true gems. Not as many as last week, but I was able to get food to put away and food for the week. In the end, I spent $67.72 and got $135.51 worth of groceries. I saved $67.79 which is a 50% savings! Today was not a bad day to save.
You did great Aly! Target has it's Yoplait on sale right now for .50 cents. If you have any of those coupons right now is a good time to hit.
ReplyDeleteJust finished shopping. Went to Homeland, and got several things for free, including Hormel Chili and Compleats dinners (for Adam's lunch), tuna, and gummie snacks for the boys. I also got HB Helper for 0.25 a box for three, toaster strudels for .75 a box x 2, and the new cinnabon snack bars for .50! Overall savings was 53% and that included three gallons of milk and two pounds of bananas at regular price. :)
ReplyDeleteGood job Amber. That is pretty good 50 cents for snack bars and free chili! I love free things. Janice Tom Thumb always has Yoplaits for 50 cents each, but thanks for letting me know that Target does also. I like to wait until Albertson has Yoplaits on sale for 39 cents or less. That is when I load up on yogurt.
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