Printable Grocery List - Grocery excursion 4.18.13

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So, from my previous post, Grocery List - Thursday - 4.18.13, my total was less than I expected. To top it off, I was able to do all my shopping in one store. I had the list of prices I always paid for, the items I needed, and it worked so well I decided to share the template. I revised it a bit, because when I was going through the list, it wasn't organized according to the department I was in. So just to make life easier... revisions. :)

Happy Baking!

Grocery list - Thursday 4.18.13

So this week, after stocking up last week, my list is fairly smaller. I decided to put my OCD to use. ;)
I have a Macbook Pro laptop, and use Pages. Pages is the equivalent to Word for PC users, they both have a built in chart.
I have been using the notepad on my iPhone for some time, but it really puts things in perspective when I can see what I usually have bought in the past from Albertsons, and their prices. I also flipped through the competitor's weekly circulars and various coupon sites. Also, a tip for a newbie coupon clipper, if you're looking for a particular brand, like International Delight or CoffeeMate creamers, 5 times out of 10 they have coupons on their website. If not, they have an email address or physical address you can contact them and ask for coupons. Saying something along the lines of, "I'd really like to try your XYZ product, but it's a bit out of my price range. Would you send me coupons by mail or email?" Nothing spectacular, just include your home address and you'd be surprised. :)

Any who, as I posted on Monday about the Dollar General ad and coupons, I'll be shopping there Friday (the 5$ coupon is for 4/19 Friday and 4/20 Saturday only), and i'll be going to Albertsons, Vons and CVS tomorrow morning.
Don't discard your CVS circular this week! They have a 20% off regularly priced items, that does not exclude using coupons. Vitamins aren't cheap, and Nature's Bounty has a coupon up at coupons.com.

I'll give this more accurate method a chance, if it works, i'll make a user friendly PDF version of what i'm using!

Happy Baking! :)

Coupons - Dollar General - Monday 4.15.13

We're buying a house and my husband insists that I continue to be a professional housewife, yet I find myself helpless seeing him stress over the finances for closing costs. What can I do?
Well, I can cut our grocery budget down to $50.00 a week. So I am scouring every inch of the web for coupons and deals.

Some people turn their noses up at Dollar General Market, but let me tell you, they have never let me down.


This week they are having a sale on:
(click here for their online circular, enter in your zipcode)

eggs - 1.25 - usually they run between 1.99-2.50 for a dozen
land o' lakes 1lb lunchmeat - 3.50 - typically 3.99-5.29
kraft cheese - 2.25 - compared to 4.49
quaker oats - 2.50 plus 2$ off when you buy 2 ($3.00) - usually 4.19
blueberries - 2.50 for 6oz - usually around 3.99 for 3.2oz
various detergents - 5$-7$ - you know the average prices....

Plus, a 5$ coupon when you spend 25$ or more before taxes.

They have a lot of other coupons on their site, click here.

Happy Baking! :)

Grocery List - 4.11.13

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Albertson's - see app
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Foil
Ziplock freezer bags
Brown sugar
Milk bones
Tomato paste 2/$1
Oats
Almond ext
Milk
Bottled water 2/$5
Gr turkey 5@$3.99

----check prices at Smith's----
Marjoram (produce or spices) 5
Beets 3
Bananas 2
Grapes 2
Oregano 5
Basil 5
Rosemary 5
Hot house tomatoes 2
Garlic 2
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Glaziers
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Fuji Apples 12 @ .68¢lb
Sweet potatoes 4 @ .88¢lb
Eggs $1.50
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Smiths (Kroger's) - get card
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Roma Tomatoes 20 lbs @ .89¢lb
Vidal sassoon Conditioner C
Vitamins BOGO free

The above is my list for this morning. Decoding it is pretty easy, but prices sway where I go for certain things. Glazier's is a locally owned (most of the time expensive) grocery store but they actually beat the prices at my regular one stop shop, Albertsons, so did Smiths (also known as Kroger's).

I usually check for coupons twice a week: Once on Monday and then another sweep Thursday morning before I head out. The grocers here, in Las Vegas, tend to put out their ads in the mail on Tuesdays and run the ad sale from Wednesday-Tuesday. I remember living in Texas and it was Monday-Sunday, but whatever. :)

Here are the links I recommend this week for coupons:
http://www.coupons.com
http://www.pgeveryday.com
http://www.couponmom.com

I generally visit more than the above three, but here lately the other sites seem less reliable. There are coupons for C&H Agave liquid sugar if you can get your browser to print it. Redplum doesn't like me this week. ;)

I'll update this once I get home and see what my total comes to be! :)

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So I ended up getting 2 weeks worth of groceries, 5 weeks of tomatoes for spaghetti sauce, and some of the deals were also misleading.

The tomatoes were well worth buying, for my household anyway. Not everyone will buy 20lbs of Roma tomatoes, and I definitely got some funny looks needless to say! lol Definitely living in the desert drives the prices of those bad boys to the roof. Usually they're a $1.29lb. Win!

The Fuji apples were on sale because they were really bad. I'm talking bruised beyond belief. So I ended up getting 4 and got 5 more of a different kind for my husband's lunches. Bad thing? No! Bruised, cheap, apples can be easy to dehydrate. I'll have to put my recipe on here another day, but they turned out nice. :)

Now, I'm super picky when it comes to buying produce, and seeing the other two stores' produce selection that I normally do not go to, you bet your buttons i'm sticking with Albertson's. I did finally find marjoram at Smiths, so I bought the lot to make my own Italian seasoning. (another thing i'll have to blog the recipe for) 

Also, while in the foil/ziplock/container aisle at Albertson's, I found ::reusable:: freezer containers. Perfect for freezing the tomatoes in.

In the end, I spent about 3 hours shopping and spent around 200$ stocking up. At the end of it all I saved around 100$ and had about 40 bags full of groceries!

Until next week's shopping adventure,
Happy Baking! :)