Welcome to Centsable Shopper Show and Tell!!
Show and Tell gives everyone the chance to share how they did this last week. Let us know if you made your Grocery Challenge for the week and how you did it. It your time to brag--go on you have earned it!
Here is my shopping trip for the week:
This week I wanted to go to Rick's Picks to stock up on snack food because we have family coming in town next week. Rick's is 15 miles from my house so I decided to go to Hen House (our local grocery store) since I would be out that way, and Wal-Mart because we needed a plunger-don't ask!!! On Sunday I had to go the clinic at CVS so I pick up my allergy meds, and some milk.
Planning Time: 45 mins.
Time spent shopping and driving: 2 hours - I am a health nut and read all the labels!! Most week I only spend about an hour shopping
Gas: I drove about 30 miles and my SUV get about 18 miles to the gallon so it cost about $5.00
Here is what I got for $63.56
3- CVS Allergy Relief -free after ECB plus use $3 off 10 cvs brand
4-gallons of milk- used $4 off $20 cvs coupon
2 bottles of Hunts Ketchup-sale
4 boxes of Near East Whole Wheat rice3 bags of Soy Heart snacks -sale
8 boxes of Kashi Whole Wheat crackers -sale
5 boxes Earth's Best ORGANIC baby snacks -sale
2 boxes Annie's all natural whole wheat bunnies- sale
2 cans of Spag. sauce
4 packs of WASA whole wheat crackers -sale
1 box Natures Path ORGANIC cereal -used $5 off 25 Rick's coupon
4 boxes of Cheerios -coupon/sale
4-4 packs of Dannon yogurt- coupon/sale
5-dozen ORGANIC Egglands Best Eggs -coupon/sale
3-7 0z boxes of ORGANIC guacamole -coupon/sale
2 bags of ORGANIC spinach- coupon
2 lbs of bananas
l lb of ORGANIC broccoli- sale
2 lbs of squash- price match
3 lbs of apples- price match
1 cottage cheese
2 cans black beans
1 can of pineapples
2 bags of cheese sticks- online rebate
2 bags of whole wheat tortillas shells
1 box of jumbo shells
2 packs of kotex pads -coupon
1 plunger!!
Total: $63.56 (after coupons and rebates)
Reg. Price: $138.72
Saved: $75.16
Stock up items for this week: Snack food items!!
I was $3.56 over budget this week-the plunger sent me over!!
What is on my menu for the week:
Breakfast:Waffles, Omelettes, & Cereal
Lunches: Lunch meat/cheese, PBJ, tuna salad, fruit
Dinners:Tacos with broccoli, Stuffed shells with squash, Ter. chicken & pineapple with vegs. (we will eat out 1 night and have a rehearsal dinner another night)
Snacks: fruit, crackers, and yogurt
Now it is time to start our Show and Tell--Please leave your comments about your shopping trips and how you did on your Grocery Challenge for the week .
11 comments:
Oh, I like how you put the time and mileage this week - that all counts too!
My show and tell is here. I spent $69 of our $75 budget this week and got $228 worth of merchandise!
We went way over this week- but we got so many great buys! My budget is 75 for diapers, formula, groceries etc.. and we spent $110. With a few RR and the 5/20 WAGS coupons I was able to get 5 cans of formula for $52 total (saving over 50%) and I used the 5/20 coupon plus a 5/1 MQ to get a Swiffer mop we really needed. I have a $16 gift card left at Walmart and a $15 card due any day now from WAGS so those will help outset the budget next week since I take the overage from this week (35.00) and cut it out next week (so 40 to spend not 75). Overall a good week...
do you happen to know what has happened to Money saving mom? I know she mentioned you some so I thought you might know.
Andrea...that's great!!! A LOT of food for only $69
All we know about MSM is that her blog is down. We hope you can get comfortable here until she's back up!
My challenge results are here. This is the first time I've tried this and I was thrilled!
BTW, Money Saving Mom has a temporary site up that you can link to from her original site!
Yesterday was a great shopping day! Came home with a trunk full and only spent $21.69 out of pocket! Full report is on my blog.
FYI, Moneysaving mom has a new blog here:
http://www.moneysavingmom.typepad.com
After the transfer is complete the regular www.moneysavingmom.com address will work. :)
I hit my budget right now on the mark! You can read about it here.
I came in at $94.83 just for groceries. I didn't set foot in Walgreens(even with the $5/20 coupon, CVS or even Walmart. 420 of my bill was just for milk(5 gallons!)All 3 of mine were on a milk frenzy this week for some reason.
http://ithinkicansquared.blogspot.com/
I went over budget, but I got to stock on on hamburger for $.99 a pound. We have enough to last us quite a while. Once our vegetables come in in the garden, I'll hardly have to even shop! Can't wait!
I went over budget -- which is in part of what comes from having a husband go to the farmer's market -- but did get some good deals.
My weekly summary is here:
http://topaztook.livejournal.com/137268.html
Where do you find the $3 off 10 for CVS? I haven't seen those coupons...
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