My Betty Crocker fruit snack deal.

Would you believe me if I told you I got all this for only .19 cents each? Well I did! Betty Crocker fruit snacks were on sale at Shaws last week for only $1.49 a box. I used a coupon for $1/3 and an IP for .50 cents/2 which doubled to $1 off. I also had a coupon that made my $1/3 coupon double making it $2/3. Then I got a CAT for $3.50 off my next order because I purchased 5 boxes of fruit snacks. So it went something like this:

$1.49 x 5 = $7.45 -$6.50 = .95cents (or .19 cents each!)

Food Deal of the Week

I love, love, love Stop & Shop when they have double coupons! I find it's a great money saver, especially if you can match it up with a sale. Here's a pic of my deals this week:

My best savings were on Pisbury Brownie Mix: on sale for $1, used a coupon buy 2 save $1, then used store double coupon. Finale cost for 2 boxes of brownie mix=FREE!

Another deal was on Fiber One Toaster Pastries on sale 2/$4, used coupon buy 2 save $1 and store double coupon. Finale cost=$1 a box.

My next great deal was on Dole Fruit Cups, on sale for $2 each, used coupon buy 3 save $1 and store double coupon. Finale cost=$1.33 each.

My total spent: $23.63

My total saved: $34.05

How great is that?!? I saved more than I spent! I love it when that happens.

Food Deal of the week (5/23/09)

Yes, I realize that today is the 28th and I'll be doing food shopping again tomorrow or Saturday, but I really wanted to share my great deal for my last food shopping trip.

In case you can't tell, I bought 5 12pks. of Coca Cola (on sale 5/$11) Other awesome deals were the hot dogs Buy 1 Get 1 Free, I also used a coupon buy 2 save $1. I used 2 coupons for the yogurt, one was a store coupon buy 10 save $1, and the other coupon was buy 6 get 1 free. Oh and they were on sale for .60 cents each. So I got 60oz of yogurt for $4.06!

My total spent: $44.75

My total saved: $34.67

Food Deal(s) of the week

Stop & Shop had double $1 coupons this week, and, thanks to my mom, I had 8 coupons to use. This is what I got on my first trip:

Not Picture: 2 gallons water & Marzetti Blue Cheese Dressing

My total spent on this trip: $17.53

My total saved: $12.67

This is everything I got on my second trip to Stop & Shop:

Not pictured: a lion bar.

This time my total spent was: $18.03

My total saved: $20.60

My last stop was to Roche Bros. This is what I got there:

My total spent: $23.72

My total saved: $20.92

My grand total spent: $59.28 (over $5 under budget)

My grand total saved: $54.19

I'll say this week was a job well done!

Food deal of the week 4/19

I didn't take a pic this week because I completely forgot. I had a busy day today, but still managed to pick up food from Roche Bros and Shaws. I will give a quick run down of what I got.
Produce: 1 orange, 2 corn on the cob, green beans, bananas, ginger root, 3 apples, blackberries, red grapes
Meat: (I needed to stock up) .89lb ham steak, 2.53lb pork chops, 1.85lb steak tip strips, 2.10lb 95% lean ground beef, 4.87lb chicken breast
Other: Quaker Rice snacks, cottage cheese, 2L Sprite, 100% whole wheat bread, apple cider vinegar, hamburger helper, Kellogg's Special K, 12pk Coke Classic, Cascadian granola bars
My grand total spent: $61.30. My grand total saved: $34.54
Still under budget!

Food deal of the week 4/13

I went to Roche Bros twice this week (once on Mon. then again Tues.) so I could use all my double coupons. My mother gave me her sales flyer, so I had eight doubles to use. Lucky me! This is what I got on my first trip: (Not pictured: 3 gallons water)

I ended up spending $24.62, which was more than I wanted, but I did get over 3 1/2 lbs. pork and almost 4 lbs chicken. My savings was $16.34

This is what I got on my second trip: (Not pictured: 3 gallons water)

This trip I spent $14.77 and saved $13.97. I was happy with this trip.

My grand total spent was $39.39 but my total saved was $30.31. Not bad if I do say so myself.

Food Deal of the Week

I went to my 3 usual grocery stores to do my weekly food shopping. I didn't need to get much. My freezer is bursting with meat and I have to use up my fruits and veggies before they go bad. Plus I still can't eat much because of having my wisdom teeth out. Pictured below was my best deal from 2 of the store I went to.

This is my shopping from Shaws and Roche Bros. Grand total for all this was only $11.23. I also went to Stop & Shop to pick up some other things, (and to use the double $1 coupon that came in the flyer) What I also got that isn't pictured is:

• A loaf of whole wheat bread
• 2 containers of Pillsbury crescent rolls
• 4 boxes of Celeste Pizza for one
• 2 boxes Green Giant frozen veggies
• 2 bags of Dunkin Donuts Coffee
• Bag a Flat Earth chips
• Box of fruit snacks
• 3 gallons of water
• and a box a Cascadian Farms chewy granola bars.

I had a dollar off coupon for the crescents rolls, frozen veggies, flat earth chips, and granola bars. Considering I spent more than $15 at Stop & Shop, I used their double coupon and all those $1 off coupons turned into $2 off. Including what I got at the other 2 stores, my grand total for food shopping this week was: $39.06 with a total savings of $29.13

Food Deal of the Week

I’m very proud of myself this week. Yesterday I finished up food shopping for my family of 4 and I only spent $76 dollars (that includes 2 jumbo packs of diapers) My savings: $65 dollars. Woo-hoo! I usually go to about 2 or 3 different grocery stores to do my shopping. Which isn’t as bad as it sounds considering I have 4 grocery stores within 5 miles of my home.
This is my best deal of the week:This deal was from Shaws, where I only spent $11.14 for all of this. Crackers were on sale for 4/$10. There was a store coupon to save $3 dollars off 4 boxes of crackers. I also had a coupon to save $2 on 2 boxes of Ritz and another coupon to save $1 on 2 boxes of Wheat Thins. After the sale and coupons I ended up spending $1 dollar for each box of crackers that normally run $3.99 each.

Grocery Shopping

Now that I’m a couple days into trying to stick to my menu, I thought I would share my grocery list. I’m trying to use what I have in my house first and tried to plan a menu off of what I had in my pantry. I didn’t think to also look at the sales flyers before making my menu so I revised some things. Like switching the summer squash for asparagus. Live and learn.

Grocery
Can of sweet corn
Honey Nut Cheerios

Produce
1.06 lb sweet potato
.53 lb red pepper
.18 sugar snap peas
.65 lb red onion
.03 lb white grapes
.52 lb broccoli
One cucumber
.23 lb green beans
Bag of bean sprouts
.74 lb asparagus
1.03 lb fuji apples
Package of tofu
2 bags of spinach (buy 1 get 1 free)
1 lb bag of carrots

Meat
Turkey bacon
3 packages of chicken breast-about 5lbs

Fish
¾ lb salmon fillets

Deli
Shaved Ham
Seafood Salad
Sliced Chicken Breast

Dairy
Fat free vanilla yogurt
2 packages of string cheese (buy 1 get 1 free)

Total spent: $53.85
Total saved by sales: $31.32
I didn’t use any coupons this week

Can you tell I didn’t have any healthy food in my house-like vegetables?