Weekly Shopping Trip

You may recall from last week that I have been over budget and have been trying to catch up. I had $22.91 to spend this week on groceries and I am pretty excited that I actually did it! I spent $22.70 and I am all done.


Here is how it went down:


Albertson's is still having their double coupons until today so I headed over to see what I could see. My friend Elisa had some extra doubles from the ad inserts and she gave me some milk coupons too! Love her! I was able to get:


1 Quaker caramel corn rice cakes - $1.99 (-$1.00 off coupon doubled) = FREE

1 Quaker cheddar cheese rice cakes - $1.99 (-$1.00 off coupon doubled) = FREE

2 Darigold chocolate milk - $2.00 (-$1.00 off 2 coupon doubled) = FREE

1 Pepperidge Farms pretzel crisps - $2.50 (-$.75 off coupon doubled) = $1.00

2 bagged salad - $1.98

1 12 pack Scott TP - $6.99 (they matched the Walgreen's coupon for this week)

Net OOP: $10.77

Next I went to Fred Meyer. I got:

3 gallons milk - $6.57

4 onions - $.77

6 apples - $2.03

1 loaf bread - $1.34 (w/ in ad coupon)

1 Buttoni Linguine - $1.49 (-$1.00 off coupon) = $.49

Net OOP: $11.93

It was fun to be so creative this week because we really NEEDED milk, bread, and TP - necessities in my book. I really wanted to stay within budget, buy we also needed pepperoni for pizza night - not a necessity. My husband also really wanted some kippered snacks, and I wanted some FM ice cream (on sale for $2.50 this week with in ad coupon). I had everything above in my cart except only 2 gallons of milk and I called my husband with the dilemma...get pepperoni, kippered snacks, or ice cream. We finally decided on ice cream, then he asked me how much milk I was getting. According to him 2 gallons wasn't nearly enough, so I put the ice cream back and got some more milk. If I got the ice cream it would have put me over budget - so I resisted and it feels so good!

For more shopping trips check out The Grocery Cart Challenge and Money Saving Mom!