Saturday, October 1, 2011

Weekly Shopping Trips 9/25-9/30

This week's shopping trips was my major shopping for this pay period. Despite the sale ads not being that great I was able to get several things for cheap or free and use coupons that were going to expire.

I did two trips to Meijer this week and did very well. I got some free candy bars, cheap taco seasoning and taco sauce, along with some cheap cottage cheese and breaded fish.

Along with my Meijer trips, I went to Walgreens, Target, Family Fare, and Duthler's.

The Walgreens and Target trip were to get some non-grocery items that were on sale there that I could use a few of my expiring coupons.

Walgreens:
  • 2 bottles OxiClean spray 
  • 2 tubes Aspercreme 
Total OOP: $7.74
Total Savings: $13.65

Target: 
  • 1 Cascade PowrPacs
  • 2 bottles Clorox bleach
  • 20 ct. Tide Stain Release
  • 1 bottle Aussie shampoo = Free after cpn
  • 1 bottle Herbal Essence shampoo = Free after cpn
  • 1 tube Neosporin
  • 20ct Bandaids
Total OOP: $12.63
Total Savings: $12.22

Family Fare: 
  • 8pk Bounty paper towels
  • 24 cups Yoplait yogurt
  • 6 lbs apples
  • 6.95 lbs ground beef
  • 1 dz. eggs
Total OOP: $34.04
Total Savings: $30.44

Duthlers: 
  • 2 half gallons Chocolate Milk
Total OOP: $2.66
Total Savings: $2.70

Grand Total OOP: $57.07
Grand Total Savings: $59.01


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Meijer Shopping Trips (9/25-9/30)

1st trip:
  • 8 candy bars
  • 2 Pepsi 2 liters 
  • 2 bags Chex Mix 
  • 4 boxes Pizza Rolls 
  • 2 boxes Eggo waffles 
  • 1 jar Dole Peaches 
  • 3 Warm Delight Brownies 
  • 1 Juicy Juice 64 oz  
I used a $2 off next shopping order Cat that I had along with coupons that were going to expire today and MPerks.

My total out of pocket: $15.60
My total savings: $22.08

Here is one scenario from my 1st trip to Meijer:

2 Hershey Bars $1.58
2 Hershey Aerated $1.58
4 Reeses $3.16
Total $6.32
I used 2- B1G1 coupons(8-28 Smartsource insert) for the Hershey Bars/Aerated so that knocked $1.58 off or what would be equal to 2 free bars and then got 3 bars free due to the deal of Buy 5 get 3 free. So I got 8 bars of chocolate for the price of 3 bars which equals $2.37.

2nd trip(the bigger of the 2):
  • 1 head of lettuce 
  • 2 Ortega seasoning mixes
  • 2.18lbs apples 
  • 6 dozen eggs 
  • 4 bags frozen corn 
  • 2 loaves Texas Toast 
  • 1 box onion soup mix 
  • 4 cans tomato sauce 
  • 2 small bottles Ortega taco sauce 
  • 2 containers cottage cheese 
  • 2 boxes brownies 
  • 2 bags Gorton's fish fillets
  • 2 bags BC cookie mix 
  •  4 boxes Gogurt 
  • 2 boxes pie crust 
  • 2 bags Tostitos 
  • 2 bags Tyson chicken nuggets 
  • 4 bags Ore Ida potatoes 
  • 4 boxes GM cereal 
  • 4 Tombstones pizzas 
My total out of pocket: $76.97
My total savings: $74.03

Just to give you a couple of scenarios from the 2nd trip:

2 Ortega taco seasonings $1.32
2 8oz bottles Ortega taco sauce $2.82
Used 2-$1.00/2 internet printable 
Used 1-$1.00/4 Mealbox cpn 
Total: $1.14 for all 4 items! or 29 cents/item!

2 bags Gorton Fish Fillets $9.98
Promo buy 2 get $2.00 off instantly
used 2- $1.00/1 peelie Q (found on Ortega products back along the way)
Total: $5.98 for 2 bags

2-24 oz Daisy Cottage cheese $4.98
used 2-65¢/1 tearpad Qs(found those a few weeks ago)
used $1.00/2 Mealbox cpn
Total: $2.68 for 2 or $1.34 each!

Grand Total OOP: $92.57
Grand Total Savings: $96.11

I am very pleased with my results this week.