Here is this week’s shopping. I am super happy to be under budget as I can splurge on a few extra things this week like good cheese, puff pastry and pesto.
So here is what I did- I did just two stores this week:
SAFEWAY #1:
5 Fruit Snacks .99 each- Used (2) .50 coupons and had a .50 e-coupon come off
Kix Cereal $1.49- Used .75/1 coupon and .75/1 e-coupon
Eggs .99
Almond Milk $3.29- used .55/1 coupon
2 Gogurts $2 each- Used (2) .85/1 coupons and had a total of $2.25 in e-coupons come off!
Salad $1.99
Blueberries $1.99
I paid $8.20. Sadly, this time my $1 produce coupon did not come off. I used a $3 cat from last time and paid $8.20. Then I got another $3 cat from Almond Milk and $3 for the fruit snacks!
SAFEWAY #2:
Kix Cereal $1.49- used .75/1 coupon
Wesson $2.99
2 Pillsbury Rolls $1.99 each- used .40/2
2 Simply Potatoes $2 each- used (2) .55/1 coupons
Whipped Cream $1.99
Almond Milk $3.29- used .55/1 coupon
London Broil $7.86*
Londoin Broil $7.80- used $2/10 Rancher’s Reserve coupon
Bananas $1.83
Cucumbers $1.65
Bagged Salad $1.99
Scallions $.79
Tomatoes $1.39
Blueberries $1.99
I used the (2) $3/1 cats from above and paid $28.21. I have no idea what happened but I was only charged $3.86 for the first huge pack of London Broil. I think the cashier scanned the coupon twice or maybe I have saved it to my card and it finally worked. I actually printed the coupon this time rather than trusting the e-coupon. Anyway, I won’t complain about the produce coupon not working in Transaction #1 because I figure it all evens out in the end.
I also got a $3 cat for the Almond milk for next time.
RALEYS:
Pie Crust $2.38
Kids Lunchbox $2.98- free with coupon
2 La Creme yogurts $1.99- used (2) $1/1 coupons
Brown Sugar $2.59
Cocoa $4.39
Ortho Wax $1.19 x 2, $2.39
I used a $10 cat from a few weeks ago and paid $6.50
So the total this week was $42 plus I did an $8 trip early in the week. So right on budget actually at $50. But I also got $17 in rebates so I will be buying a few extras later this week.
See the ongoing list of Safeway deals here and Raley’s deals here.
Did the produce coupon still show on your reciept ? Because I used one today and it showed on my reciept as produce coupon but then said .00 so Im wondering if my coupon worked ! I’m trying to do the math but I don’t think it did. 🙁
What is the $3 cat for almond milk?
I’m tired and just saw the next post. I’m happy!!
Hey! I love how you lay this out but I’m unsure as to how to get 7 meals for the week from a shopping trip like this. I know you got the meats and salads stuff and there’s eggs or cereal for breakfasts. But please help. I’d love to have a $42 shopping trip. Also any ideas for savings on non-beef meats?
@Christina- this coupon is a headache. It worked for me the first 4 times I think at the checkstand and Uscan- including when I just bought $1.77 in produce but had a $5 or more transaction. It showed up each time under the items at .00 or .01 and then at the very bottom said $1.00 Produce. This last time I know it didn’t work because it just said .01. That was at UScan. The second time through the checkstand it worked.
@Angela- I just found another Kix coupon too! I am so going back for more!
@Shira. I got this question last week too someone asked if I really did meals off $50 which I thought was funny. I think she thought I sneaked an extra $100 in groceries or something that I didn’t confess to on MFA 😛 I am going to do my menu plan this week and you can see what I came up with. Also I think I am going to do a vlog on this so just sit tight and we shall see what I come up with.
Thanks! I just checked out your menu and it’s pretty great! Nice job. I’m just fighting with a lot of different requests here on my end, from vegetarians to no gluten (I bake all the breads from scratch) and all the cheap bread deals have high fructose corn syrup so I skip those. So many sweat deals though! I love that post about the safeway coupon book because OMG there’s a Morning Star Farms coupon. I need like 10 of those books.
Thanks again!
Shira I am a vegetarian and my husband is not. Then I have 2 toddlers so I have to make 4 meals a night pretty much 🙂 I hear ya!
hey, anyone see the e-coupon for Safeway and the glade plugin(s)? I was thinking about using it with the manufacture coupon through coupons.com. would they allow stacking do you think? At least this way there would be discounts on both items and not just the one. the diffusers seem expensive here(about 10) and my sister lives in Thailand and its VERY cheap there, very common place, around 1-2 US dollars. insane! And I think its also natural not chemically enhanced fragrances like we have here. 🙂 What is with the US’s obsession to have a house smell good for yourself or guests? 🙂
what a mess-safeway had no glad pugins and then I was under by .26 cents so they had to re rung me up and end up with a double charge (sorta) on my card. GAH! something about tax, which apparently doesn’t count. so now I have 3 things of TP sitting in my car. what to do, I don’t know. but I got the catalina…..I may try to look @ the other safeway when I go next week and see what’s up and do a little return and see if they can put it back on my card. ARGH! such a hassle for 10 back. Also found out that oil of olay is for “mature ladies” (older than me.:)) I found it disturbing that the items were not ALL listed as with the proper signage so this made it difficult. If I had gotten my original items, I would have been fine but as it was, it was not properly labeled so I didn’t want to risk it.
Karen you might just call catalina marketing before you do anything else and see if they can mail you the cat. That might be the easiest way to resolve it.
Wow, four meals a night is exactly what I’m doing! One vegetarian, one gluten,corn,soy,sugar,dairy,beef,lamb,mushroom,blueberry free, a 10 month old and the last one just eats whatever looks tastiest or all of it.
I can’t believe your husband eats all that meat!