Posts Tagged ‘free food’

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.

I finally made it to the store tonight. Boy, the shelves were sure cleaned out! I hope they restock. This happened the last time when there was a General Mills deal — all the Betty Crocker stuff with coupons was gone. My total: $9.59. Not a bad first trip when you consider the 2 packages of lunch meat accounted for just under half ($4.68).

I spent a little more than I usually do on a “first” trip, as we really needed some sandwich meat. A wonderfully generous person gifted me with a LOT of bread, see:

See this post for the Harris Teeter Matchup List

Leftovers for dinner tonight. I had a bunko game, so I just had snacks there. (I won $40 at bunko!)

Since it was Wednesday, I used the list at TheCouponConsultant for my Farm Fresh shopping trip. I tend to go late at night. It works out for me, since there’s nearly nobody in the store and they’ve started stocking the shelves for the next day, so anything that had sold out during the day has usually already been replenished.

Here’s what I got today… for  $3.41

A point of clarification: My receipt total was $15.41, but they refunded $12. The Raisin Bran rang up wrong and the Farm Fresh policy is to give you the item for free if it rings up wrong. (it had rung up at $4.39, instead of $3, so they refunded the 4.39×2+tax = $9, and 3 coupons didn’t double, so they gave me cash back on those too.

See, cash!

The raisin bran (at least part of one box) and the buttermilk are for an awesome raisin bran muffin recipe my sister made for me a few weeks ago. I’m making ‘em tomorrow.

Powered by ScribeFire.

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.

7-11: Saturday, July 11 from 7am-11pm, get a FREE Slurpee

Thanks to thecouponconsultant.com for posting a list of free food deals on their site.

Powered by ScribeFire.