This week I spent $78 grocery shopping, which is right on target. (We used to have an $80 a week budget, but then a few months ago I spent tons of money stocking up on coffee and cut $2 a week from my budget through June. Almost there! And then I shall spend my extra $2 a week on nicer organic coffee because we're down to our last few bags.)
I spent $29 on a $50 transaction at Jewel, which would have been about sweeter if I'd been able to find the in-store coupons for free Sara Lee hot dog buns and $3 off a watermelon. But I still feel like I did fairly well -- the difference between the $51 (plus tax) card price and the final price means I used $24 in coupons. That's one $5/$50 store coupon and $19 in manufacturer's coupons.
The best deals from that trip were four bottles of free Kraft bbq sauce with $1/1 printable (I was hoping a Catalina would print, but none did), Artisinal Wheat Thins at $1.10 a box (bogo with 2 coupons), a 4-pack of DanActive yogurt for $1 after using a $1.50 Catalina Q (it said it was for DanActive drinks but it worked on the yogurt), Kraft cheese for $1 an 8 oz. brick after $1/1 printable, and Ball Park Franks for $1 after $1/2 MQ.
I could have squeezed a buck or two more off with a couple last-minute additions I had to make, but the manager who does not like me was watching and at that point I was happy to get through my huge stack of coupons at the self-checkout and get out.
Then we had two splurge shopping trips: one where I asked Epu to stop for a loaf of crusty bread because I forgot to do the bread machine, and he bought himself a $9 six-pack of beer (that's why I usually say no! when he asks if I need anything on his way home from work!), and one to Woodman's in Kenosha, where we spent $41, mostly on Asian sauces for spicing up our home cooking, Asian noodles and a few other goodies.
Oh, and I supplemented that with a gallon or two of milk from CVS, using ExtraBucks.
Since we didn't buy any fresh fruit, veggies or eggs last week, we're sorely due for a trip to Trader Joe's. Maybe tomorrow.
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Finally, the Scoop on My Pretty Good Jewel Run
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Your comment about the $9 beer coup cracked me up. I don't trust my husband either. I almost went ballistic on Mother's Day when I could not find the coffee he bought (with a coupon, yeah!) but we figured it got left behind. I just found it in the freezer in a bag of Minute Maid limeades. Now I don't even like him unloading the stuff at home.
Michele,
Leaving the groceries sitting at the store (or on the bottomo of the cart in the parking lot) is actually something _I_ would do. And "losing" it in the freezer too. I try, but with 2 kids taking up most of my bandwidth + placenta brain, I just can't always be at the top of my game. Just wait till I have 3 -- maybe I'll have to succomb to the siren song of Peapod for a few months.
I did grab a six pack of high-end beer for the hubs today for $4.99, so hopefully that will keep him from shopping for himself for the rest of the week.
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