Recent Deals and Grocery Shopping

Our Shop n Save (Hannaford) store is having it's 125th anniversary sale. They have a ton of items for 1.25, plus some buy $$ get $$ back deals. Today, I went in with six $3.00/1 TGIFriday's coupons, two $1.00/3 Prego Coupons, and three $1.00/2 Lean Pockets coupons. I grabbed 6 boxes of TGIFriday's frozen snacks for $3.29 each, 6 bottles of Prego sauce for $2.29 each, and 6 boxes of Lean Pockets for $1.25 each!!! So...

TGIFriday's - .29 each
Prego Sauce - 1.96 each
Lean Pockets - .75 each

I also picked up some hamburger to throw in the freezer that I'm currently working on stocking for winter. They were from yesterday and they were putting out new meat so they were marked down .50 a package. So three of those took 1.50 off my total. I needed hamburger anyway.

I ended up saving a total of 24.50 in coupons and my total was under $30.00 for 12 boxes of food, 6 bottles of pasta sauce, and three packages of hamburger! Pretty decent. PLUS!!! Because I bought $15.00 worth of TGIFriday's stuff, I got a $5.00 off my next order coupon! =) So that'll save me a few bucks next time around! I tried to find some other deals that would give me more of these coupons, but I just didn't have the time to look for the coupons to match up to their sale paper today. Maybe before Saturday when the sale ends I'll get a chance to see what else I can do.

Oh, I also used those Marcal coupons from this past insert. I got three papers because there were some weatherization product coupons and the free marcal again, plus a bunch of other coupons I have yet to even look at. So I got three packages of Marcal toilet paper for 12 cents after tax and coupons.

I REALLY need a big shelf to stock this stuff on in my basement. My hall closet needs to be emptied for food storage because my kitchen cabinets are so full. I have about 6 extra boxes of cereal, and I continue to stock up when I find a good deal.

At Target this weekend, I used two printable Target coupons from Afullcup.com that were $1.00/2 General Mills Cereals, and a $1.00/3 General Mills Cereals coupon. They had select varieties of GM Cereal on sale for 3/5.97, which is 1.99 each. After my coupons, I spent $1.65 a box. Not a huge savings, but it's better than paying 2.50 regular price at the grocery store!!!

This month my grocery budget has gone WAY farther than it normally does. I stocked up on more soups and pastas, cereal, snacks for the kids to take to school, meat, veggies. I got so much stuff that my freezer, which was completely empty less than two weeks ago, is now looking pretty full.

I bought 22 packages of frozen vegetables last week with coupons and sales. I got 20 cans of soup (campbell's and progresso), pasta (12 packages between a sale at shaw's and great use of Ronzoni coupons at Walmart), and I even got two roasts BOGO at Shaw's, and two whole chickens for .79/lb. Usually, buying meat is what monopolizes my grocery budget. I can buy tons of stuff to throw a meal together, but when it comes to buying the meat to do it, I'm always spending so much. But after putting 3 chickens, two packages of chicken breast, two roasts, and 3 packages of hamburger in my freezer this week, I still have 100 bucks left for the month! And I usually go over my grocery budget by about 100.

So... if anyone is reading this... like, anyone in particular who thinks they can't come stay at my house cause they'll starve, I think I have enough food to last a while, even with a huge crowd to feed every night. =) And there's always next month's Shaw's trip to add to my grocery stockpile!