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Day 10 – AYGC

By Valerie

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009

Getting ready for my trip, taking advantage of Super Doubles at Harris Teeter and Double Dollar Wednesday at Farm Fresh — boy, oh boy, have I had a busy day!

First stop: Bloom – 4 12 packs of pop for our road trip. $10.25 including tax.

Next: Farm Fresh – Total was $17.03, but I bought 2 bottles of Tide ($3.99 each plus tax after coupon), and two boxes of Wet Ones ($0.50 each plus tax after coupon), so my grocery total was only $7.60.

Moving down the road: WalMart – Most of the ticket was non-food stuff. The food total was $10.52. $6 of that was lunch meat. I usually wait for a much better price, but I’m leaving a hungry 18 year old to fend for himself for a week, plus we’re packing sandwiches to eat on the road, so we needed something besides bologna.

Last stop for the night: Harris Teeter – My total was $9.72. If I weren’t so busy getting ready for vacation I’d have posted a picture of this stuff, at least. Lots of frozen heat-and-heat foods for the kid. Even though I’m providing fairly easy stuff, it should be a good experience for him to have to fend for himself for a bit.

Wow! My total is $38.09. Including yesterday’s shopping I’ve used up half of this week’s allowance. This may get tricky!

Categories : All You Grocery Challenge

Tags : 2 Bottles, bloom, Bologna, Boxes, Food Stuff, Good Experience, harris teeter, Lunch Meat, Moving Down The Road, Road Trip, Sandwiches, shopping, Tide, Walmart, Wet Ones

Wowsa! Somone at Hot Coupon World did a GREAT matchup list for Harris Teeter this week.

By Valerie

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009

You’ll find a fairly comprehensive list for Harris Teeter’s Super Double even, which starts Wednesday morning.

click here –>> HT Super doubles 7/22- 7/28 – Good deal list << — click here

Lots of free stuff, and lots of very cheap stuff. Hooray!

Categories : Couponing, Saving Money

Harris Teeter Super Doubles 7/22-7/28

By Valerie

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009

Once again, we’re not getting triple coupons, but do get to take advantage of higher value coupons by doubling them.

I missed the boat on this completely, getting ready for vacation, and wouldn’t have even known about it if The Coupon Consultant hadn’t asked me about a list.

I’m going to to try to put a list together, as I really need to replenish my stockpiles.

Categories : Couponing

Tags : harris teeter, Stockpiles, Super 7, Value Coupons

Day 9 – AYGC

By Valerie

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009

I finally did some shopping today! Spent $14.35, mostly on perishables like bread, milk, eggs and meat (steak again, into the freezer). And ice cream. Generic. And two 2-liter bottles of generic diet cola. There were other items, but they were freebies with coupons.

The french bread was free with a survey code. About every 4th or 5th trip to Farm Fresh I get a survey form. Call the 800#, take the survey over the phone and they give you a code for a free loaf of bread.

The reason for the french bread was to go with our dinner of spaghetti and meatballs. We also had a nice tossed salad. All from stuff we had on hand. I even nabbed a tomato from the garden. They’re FINALLY starting to get ripe. Looks like I’ll get mostly zebra tomatoes.

I also exchanged my expired Fuel Express tickets for a new one, since I needed gas. I’d been told by someone at the store that they would do that and decided to give it a try. Pleasantly surprised. However a good friend of mine tried it also and two different people told her it couldn’t be done. Go figure.

Even better… there was a nice older man overseeing the gas station and he cleaned my windshield for me. Too cool.

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Categories : All You Grocery Challenge

Day 8 – AYGC

By Valerie

Monday, July 20th, 2009

One more day with no shopping. Wow! I even got the last loaf of bread out of the freezer. There is space in there! It’s usually packed to the gills.

Busy day, so we had what we refer to as “dinner in a box”, which is really Banquet Homestyle Bakes. Our favorite is Country Chicken/Mashed Potatoes/Biscuit. They only take about 5 minutes to put together, then bake for 20-30 minutes. Prices vary depending on your store (my final out-of-pocket price is usually about $2). There was a 50¢/1 coupon in the 07-19-09 Smart Source circular, as well as one in May “All You” magazine, so look for a sale and/or a double- or triple-coupon event to try one out. Even at full retail, which can be up to $5 at the posh grocery stores, for something that fast, I think it’s worth having one in the pantry — it’s still MUCH cheaper than fast food. And I think they taste pretty good!

Back on topic, we had fresh watermelon with the easy-peasy dinner.

Yes, I know, we haven’t had a green salad on the table in days. I have the lettuce for it too. Need to use it up now.

I’m trying to decide if I actually need to get the groceries on my list, or if I should wait until we come back from our trip. Probably need to get the bread and milk for my eldest, who isn’t coming with us due to college finals.

Now I need to see if there are any couponing events going on in Ohio while I’m there.

Categories : All You Grocery Challenge