So I hit up a few stores this week. Kroger twice.
First time on Monday for our “regular shopping”…we were all out of juice, bananas, milk…you know, the essentials!
Second time to rock the toothpaste and $4 P&G sale. And rock it, I did!
I also bopped into Whole Foods while we were in the neighborhood in Cincinnati for an appointment. I wanted to get some more quinoa, and also got some sucanat from the bulk bins as well. While I REALLY wanted to go ballistic and blow my grocery budget out of the water, I restrained myself, mustered up some self-control and walked out of there only spending $5.76!
No farmer’s market trip for me this week. The fridge is full of all sorts of fabulous produce, peppers, tomatoes, squash…from last week’s trip and from our own garden.
(I’m thinking BLT sandwiches for lunch everyday for the next 2 months. I really don’t think I’d get sick of them.)
(I love them like I love chocolate, rosemary and garlic.)
Kroger Trip #1
My “regular” trip…included some great manager’s special deals on pork chops, sliced mushrooms, a bag of stir fry veggies, and organic apple slices. Also, grabbed some $.50/can tuna, $1.99/lb chicken breasts and $1.69/lb ground beef.
Kroger Trip #2
20 tubes of Crest, 1 100 oz Tide Free and Clear, 1 box Bounce Free, big old pack of Charmin, and an air freshener. (It’s summer and my boys are stinky!)
- Used 20 $.50/1 Crest coupons – FREE!!!
- $3/1 Charmin from P & G E-Saver – Total of $2.99 after sale, promotion and e-coupon
- $2/1 Tide from P & G E-Saver – Total of $7.99 after sale, promotion and e-coupon
Should have paid over $86 for all that…but instead only paid $18.72!!!
Total spent at Kroger: $66.60 and $18.72
Total for the week: $103.58 for all trips plus farmer’s market
Total for the month: $255.62
Just $15 over my $60/week budget for July~ More details on the August budget next week!
Thanks to Andrea at Mommy Snacks and Marcy at Stretching a Buck for posting the best deals and coupon matchups at my stores each week!
Find the coupon match-ups for your grocery store at The Frugal Map!
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Love quinoa! Our Trader Joe’s has a better price/lb on quinoa than our Whole Foods. I haven’t noticed sucanat in the bulk bins at our WF. I’ll have to check again! I buy the small bag of Rapunzel organic, unbleached, unrefined whole cane sugar.
Mary Ellen
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July 28, 2010 at 10:33 am
I don’t think my Kroger doubles coupons up to that many times because when I did the hand soap last week, they only doubled up to 8 coupons. Still a good deal!
Was the toothpaste on sale? Where did you get the .50 coupon for crest???
Can you tell me how you cook the quinoa, and I think succanat is a sugar, but what do you use it for? I am trying to get more all natural/organic foods but unsure about some of them. Thanks so much for your help and the great blog!
Did the Crest toothpaste trigger the $4 off for the P&G promo? The flyer claims it’s part of the deal, but it seems too good to be true to get free toothpaste PLUS $4 off.
Awesome!!!
Did you get any $5 off your next order print out from last week??
Last week I got 3- $5 off ..bought 20 bricks of cream cheese at 99 cents and they popped out…Hope to get some good deals with those this week.
I purchased 4 items on the Procter & Gamble mega event to stock up on toilet paper, soap and dishwashing detergent! I got a pack of the Charmin tissue paper (16 rolls), 1 Cascade detergent gel bottle, 1 Cascade action pacs detergent and 1 10-pack of Ivory bar soap for only $13!