Great Grocery Trip
Written by HERS on July 1, 2008 – 9:32 am -When we go grocery shopping we don’t go empty handed. We have a list, our coupons and a plan. This weekend’s grocery shopping trip is an excellent example of what our bill looks like. This is for two people and we are not starting from scratch as we have things in the freezer / pantry / fridge at home already that we are augmenting. I look at what’s on sale, what coupons I have and what we need.
This week’s trip was to Safeway but we don’t always shop there. It all depends on who has the rights things on sale that week.
- Ketchup $.99
- Cheez-Its $1.47
- Cranergy Juice $2.50
- Canned Cat Food 6 - $.33 each
- Kraft Cheese Singles - 2 - $1.50 each
- FF Half & Half $4.49
- Yummy mini ice creams 2 - $1.00 each
- Limeade $1.25
- Duracell 8pk AA $2.49
- Men’s Shave Gel $1.50
- OM Hotdog - 3pks for $1 total
- Lean Hamburger $6.11 for 4.8lbs
- Jumbo Raw Shrimp $5.39 for 0.9lbs
- Green Onion $0.99
- Ginger Root $0.25
- Cinlantro $0.99
- Beer 24pk $12.99 (July 4th parties)
Our total was $50.24 and obviously the beer at $13 was the biggest item but with July 4th parties coming up next weekend we grabbed it at a good price to bring to a big party we are attending. The shrimp was a treat for us which we will grill up for dinner and the hamburger has already been mixed up and made into hamburger patties and in the freezer for later use.
Our receipt claims that we saved $61.34 (56%) off of our bill which in fact we did but we wouldn’t have bought some of the items if they weren’t on sale and had coupons to go along with them. The hot dogs for example we couldn’t pass up at 3 Oscar Myer packs for $1, I just threw them in the freezer for later use. The same thing with the cheese slices, I’m not a huge fan of that kind of cheese but at that price I’ll make so for a couple weeks!
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