Shopping Trips 11/6-11/12---Another great week!

Well, for the second week in a row I spent around $20 on our groceries.
I didn't buy a lot, but a few things that were needed here and there and it definitely helped that I had a Rite Aid gift card and (2) $10 ONYOs to use up at Shoprite!  Here are the pictures:

 Walmart: $0.44 (tax Only)

Shoprite: $1.88 (used $10 Cat, received $3 Cat)

Adams: $10.07

The oily paper bag contains the best apple cider donuts in the world! 

The deli ham was a special lunch treat!

Shoprite: $0.68 (I used another $10 Cat)

Rite Aid: $0 ( I used a GC from a previous deal.)

Amazon: $0 (The REAL VT Maple Syrup was a special deal on Amazon and I used swagbucks giftcards to pay, so this was a great way to score something that rarely is on sale!)

Mother Earth's: $7.43 (That's Spices and Couscous!)

Total Spending = $20.50

Total Savings = $183.13 or 90%

November Budget (4 wks..Oct 30-Nov 26) = $160

Total Spending Weeks 1&2 = 39.52

Remaining Budget for November $120.48

I'm super pleased that I'll have the extra money for some special ingredients for Thanksgiving Dinner!

November 21st-- Hudson, NY---Locavore on a Budget

 

1-4pm Sunday, November 21
Locavore On a Budget: Talk, Workshop and Book Signing
Wagon House Education Center/Farm Complex
FREE and For Adults

Register by preceding Saturday: (518) 828-1872 x 109. 

Most of us want to eat green and local (just as the Church's farm bounty was presented on the dinner table). Tight schedules and even tighter budgets can make it seem like an unattainable goal. Leda Meredith will cover budgeting; sourcing, growing, and preserving food; shopping efficiently; and supporting local merchants and planet Earth. Meredith will also demonstrate ways to preserve the herb harvest. Her book: The Locavore's Handbook: A Busy Person's Guide to Eating Local on a Budget will be available for purchase/signing.

Olana State Historic Site
5720 Route 9G
Hudson, NY 12534

Pay ATTENTION!

 

It Pays to Pay Attention!

Life is so busy that sometimes paying attention is near impossible.

However, taking a moment to give things a once over can be very rewarding.

Last week Shoprite had a "manager's special" on select varieties of Activia at 97c.  I had a couple 75c/1 IPs in my coupon folder.  I was prepared to pay 22c for the yogurt.  Now, here's where it gets a little complicated.  For those of you who know Shoprite, you are wondering why I was expecting to pay 22c when the coupon should double to make it FREE.  Let me backtrack for a moment.  Sometime ago ( a year or so) my local Shoprite "upgraded" their registers.  I began to notice that not all of my Qs were doubling correctly.  There are a variety of scenarios, but in most cases if something was on sale for $1.49 and I had a 75c/1 Q it would not double.  Previously (and according to Shoprite policy) the Q should double by taking off 75c then 74c to make the total 0.  You may remember my post "Why I'll pay 9c for a can of beans I could possibly get for Free!", which also deals with this same issue.  Well if a coupon didn't double I had to get CS to override the Q and so forth and so on.  This often was a waste of time.

So, back to the Activia....

I like to try and keep an eye on the register as the cashier scans the coupons, but on this particular trip I had a rather speedy cashier.  As the numbers flew by on the screen I was pretty certain I saw the Activia double 75c and 22c to 0.  I checked my receipt and sure enough, this was the case.  I've tested this out with a variety of Qs now and it appears Shoprite has resolved the computer problem!

It pays to pay attention!

Check back next week for another Pay Attention post!

Shoprite Printable Only Match-Ups 11/7-11/13

It's a pretty slow week so far, but there are a couple very cheap/free items using IPs!

FREE- Ronzoni Quick Cook 88c - 50c/1 IP here, here or here

(some of these have reset since I printed them a month or so ago, 

so you may want to check even if you have printed before)

24c- Hefty Garbage Bags $1.24- $1/1 IP (zip 30015)

38c- Carnation Evap Milk 88c - 50c/2 IP

$1.27- Nestle Baking Morsels $1.77- $1/2 IP

Shopping Trip 10/30- 11/5--- Under $20!!!

I had a great week!  While my budget is set at the usual $40/ week I was "secretly" hoping to keep it under $25 this week, so I can build up some extra money for Thanksgiving Dinner.  So, you all know I was quite pleased when I did my final tally and was under $20!!!  Another reason that this week was great is that I earned my Free Shoprite Turkey!  We're planning to donate this to a local soup kitchen with some other pantry goods.  I didn't get pictures of everything, but I did get pictures of a few shops, so here they are...

Shoprite: $0.12 

( I used Catalinas from previous deals to pay!)

Adams: $4.54

(See we really did start to buy produce, again)

Shoprite: $2.29

(I had another Catalina to use up!)

Walmart: $4.81

Adding these trips to the others not pictured here:

Total Spending = $19.02

Total Savings = $264.68 or 93%

November Budget (4 wks..Oct 30-Nov 26) = $160

Remaining Budget for November $140.98

How was your first week of November?