Saturday, February 20, 2010

Spending/Saving Saturday February 14-20

Meijer

Grocery Total: $90.37
Spent: $14.92
Saved: $75.45
Store Rewards Spent: $7.50

Items purchased with coupons:
KEY: MFC= Manufacturer's coupon, MBC= Meijer Mealbox coupon, IP= Internet printable coupon.

Pillsbury Grands ( 2 IP's), Chex Mix (8 IP's), Kelloggs cereal (4 IP's), Betty Crocker fruit roll ups (2 IP's & 2 MBC's), Pillsbury Toaster Strudel (2 IP's and 1 MBC), Ortega products (4 MFC's & 2 MBC's), Hershey's bars (3 MFC's)

Meijer

Grocery Total: $76.70
Spent: $6.50
Saved: $70.20
Store Rewards Spent: $10.00 $4 from purchasing the Glade air fresheners, $3 from Betty Crocker potatoes, and $3 from Kelloggs cereal
*I made three transactions.

Items purchased with coupons:
KEY: MFC= Manufacturer's coupon, MBC= Meijer Mealbox coupon, IP= Internet printable coupon.

Betty Crocker cake mix (4 IP's), Cottonelle wipes (3 catalina coupons), Betty Crocker frosting (3 IP's & 1 MBC), Glade air fresheners (2 IP's), Chex Mix (4 IP's), Simply Asia seasoning packets (4 MFC's), Hershey's (2 MFC's).

Target

Grocery Total: $13.07
Spent: $0, I spent a $5 gift card (learn to 'roll' it here) and $.33 of another GC
Saved: 13.07

Items purchased with coupons:
KEY: MFC= Manufacturer's coupon, IP= Internet printable coupon.

1 cheesecake middles IP & 2 MFC's from a Meijer coupon booklet

Orchard & 10

Grocery Total: $7.98
Spent: $1.34
Saved: $6.64
Store Rewards Spent: $2.60 in bottle returns- YUCK! I hate bottle returns!


Gordon Food Service
* Romain lettuce... I'm sure you're sick of the pictures of it!
Grocery Total: $4.29

Weekly Total
Spent: $27.05
Saved: $155.36

Monthly Total
Spent: $94.90
Saved: $306.46

5 comments:

Anonymous

Hi Laura,
How do you know when there are instant savings at the checking (like the $1 off four boxes of cereal) or when there are Catalina coupons like the $3 ones you got at Meijer?
Thanks,
Amy

Anonymous

Oops, that should have been "checkout" not "checking." You knew what I meant!
Amy

Laura Webber

Hi Amy,
When I read the sales flyer (usually online) while I'm deciding what to purchase that week- I read the fine print, and this alerts me to the additional "instant" savings!

Great question!

Tammy

I know you mention that you shop at CVS, Rite-Aid or Walgreens. If you buy shampoo, etc do you include that in your grocery total or not? I haven't seen a drug store purchase lately and was curious if you track that as grocery or seperate.

Laura Webber

Hi Tammy,
Yep, I do shop the drug stores (and include that in my weekly $50 household/grocery spending budget) but I don't shop the drug stores very often anymore... only for *stellar* deals!