Posts Tagged ‘cheap eats’

I spent $2.97 today, $10.83 yesterday, and $4.43 on Wednesday. My receipt from Thursday is around somewhere…

Here’s what I got today for under $3:

In the foreground I even got a catalina for 50 cents off my next purchase (which will be tomorrow).

In all honesty, this trip’s total should have been a bit higher (by about a buck). Not sure why it wasn’t, but it makes up for the errors on the previous 3 trips, each one had coupons that didn’t triple correctly, which tends to happen when the coupon is for a purchase of more than one item, the first trip was several dollars higher than it should have been. I figure it balances out.

Lori over at thecouponconsultant.com has published her weekly list of Farm Fresh match-ups. It it a lot of work, and I’m just thrilled that she does all that work for us.

There are a lot of great deals at Walgreens this week as well. Lori’s got the details on her couponing blog as well.

All You magazine is holding a grocery challenge starting today.

The challenge is to spend $25 or less per week per family member. This includes restaurant meals, but not toiletries and household goods.

Even though we’re going out of town for a few days during the challenge, I decided it would be fun to participate. Since I have ample stockpiles, it won’t be all that much of a stretch for us. Check out what I have on hand already… (forgot to take a picture of what’s in the freezer…)

The pull-out pantry shelves in my kitchen (yeah, I know they're a mess)

Cereal, artificial sweetener, extra baking mixes, etc.

Extended pantry, immediately outside the kitchen door

The flip side of that shelf, canned goods, mixes, sauces, dressings, etc.

Next to the workbench, I appropriated some more shelf space for my haul at a few triple-coupon events.

The other side of that shelf... stashing stuff whereever I can fit it.

Old utility cabinet, used to house seldom-used appliances, now more of my stockpiles (appliances are in the attic)

A freecycle find -- 2 cases of refried beans!

I’ll be documenting my adventure on this site.

A very good morning! Words just arn’t going to do this justice, so here’s the photo:

Bloom bonanza! All this for $13.18.

Plus, I ended up with a catalina for $2.50 off my next purchase at Bloom.

This is going to be a great shopping weekend!

Here’s a link to the spreadsheet:

http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=rDdhenBQRcZkazbGEy9wLfQ

Some of the money-makers to watch out for are Kraft BBQ Sauce, Eggo Waffles (16 ct, on bogo sale), Lysol Clink 2-in-1, and Hot Pocket Panini’s.  (I’m sitting here wishing I had ANY room in my freezer. It’s packed to the top. Ug!)

If there is an asterisk in the size column, that means the price came from someone else’s spreadsheet, but all other prices were personally verified by me tonight at the Bloom on South Battlefield. I couldn’t find some of the Ortega products — in fact I couldn’t find any refried beans, except one odd mexican brand. Very weird.

I’ll be at Bloom bright and early! The sale starts at 7:00 a.m.