My Shopping Trip!

Last week, Meijer had a 10 for $10 get 11th item free sale, so I took advantage of it and bought the following items:

• 2 bottles Suave shampoo
• 2 boxes 150 ct. sandwich bags
• 6 boxes brown n serve sausage
• 2 boxes Betty crocker cake mix
• 4 tubes Grands biscuits
• 5 cups Easy Mac 
• 9 containers frozen Old Orchard juice
• 2 bottles Sunny Delight
• 1 can Meijer chocolate frosting
• 2 lbs baby carrots
• 5 Totinos frozen pizzas
• 5 Armour LunchMakers

After free items and coupons with tax for non-food items, my total for 45 items was: $36.78

Meijer also has a few other things on sale. I also picked up:

• 1 lb Argo cornstarch
• 3 bags Ore Ida frozen potatoes
• 4 boxes Gogurt
• 2 boxes Gortons frozen fish
• 4.37 lbs ground beef from round on Manager's markdown
• 2 pkgs Reese's peanut butter eggs (splurge item!)

Total for these items: $34.64

Grand Total at Meijer: $71.42

Total Savings at Meijer: $50.29

I also took the time to run into Family Fare so that I could use my coupon for a free gallon of milk along with a few other sale items.

• 2 boxes Post cereal 
• 2 boxes Banquet chicken nuggets
• 3-12pks Pepsi products
• 1 gallon of chocolate milk

Total with bottle deposit: $23.58

Total savings at Family Fare: $10.84

My trip into Aldi's was a quick one for some pantry basics that were out or low on my shelves.

• 3 gallons milk 
• 2 dozen eggs
• 6 cans beef broth
• 1 jar honey
• 4 cans cream of chicken soup

Total: $19.85

Grand Total: $114.85

Grand Total of Savings: $61.13 plus Aldi's!

Not bad considering that it was a shopping trip for 2 weeks worth of groceries since I skipped a shopping trip around the 1st of the month due to being on vacation (I shop around the 1st and 15th of the month due to hubby's pay).  I didn't need much in the way of meats this go around because of buying ahead and making menus from what I have in my stockpile before shopping.   This week's menu is totally working out of the pantry and freezer stockpile. Next week's grocery trip will be a bigger trip due to needing more meats.  Sorry no pictures this week, everything got put away so fast by my kids that I didn't have a chance to take them. 

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