The Great Grocery Challenge

 

CVS #1: OOP $8.63, Saved $36.20 (81% savings)
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CVS #2: OOP $2.20, Saved $32.30 (94% savings!)

Meijer: OOP $27.63, Saved $46.27 (63% savings)

Sam's Club: OOP $2.41

Weekly Totals: OOP $40.87, Saved $114.77 (74% Savings!)

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The Great Grocery Challenge

Meijer: OOP $27.57, Saved $49.52!

CVS: OOP $3.22, Saved $26.40!

Target: OOP $1.54, Saved $4.88!

*Plus, I was really excited to find chlorinating tabs for the pool on clearance for 50% off! Chemicals really add up over the summer so any discount on them is awesome.

Walgreens: OOP $1.88, Saved $3.63!

Sam's Club: OOP $25.96
We were out of garbage bags and I recently discovered that Sam's Club has the best price - $9.98 for 150 which equals out to 6 cents each! I also picked up some pistachios for the hubs. :-)

Weekly Totals: OOP $60.17, Saved $84.43! (58% savings)

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The Great Grocery Challenge

 

Walgreens: OOP $12.26, Saved $44.56!

Meijer: OOP $32.73, Saved $24.05!
Not a bad trip since I picked up a few things that weren't on sale (sugar, cinnamon, batteries).

CVS: OOP $0.39, Saved $5.03!
I was really hoping to get the great deal on the Huggies Slip-On diapers this week, but out of my four stores...none of them had them by Tuesday! This is when I wished shopping worked for me on Sundays. Instead, I just went in for their free items (which you can see really aren't free when you have to pay sales tax...still a good deal).

Sam's Club: OOP $2.99, Saved $0!
I needed to stop somewhere for milk and I thought they would be the same price or cheaper on milk than running into Meijer. Boy was I wrong! Meijer had milk on sale for $2.50 this week. oops!


Weekly Totals: OOP $48.37, Saved $73.64 (60% savings)

The Great Grocery Challenge - Week 32

 

Cub Foods: OOP $0, saved $17.32!

Purina Beggin' Strips were on sale B1G1 Free (I picked up four.), and I used my coupon for FREE Uncle Ben's rice.

Sams Club: OOP $20.94, saved $0!

We purchased burgers, hot dog buns and hamburger buns for our memorial day party. At least the hot dogs were from my stockpile. ;-)

 Meijer: OOP $23.42, saved $34.92!

  Target : OOP $7.87, saved $10.28!

Weekly Total: OOP $52.23, saved $62.52!

The Great Grocery Challenge - Week 12

It was a pretty good week...a little over the budget, but that will hopefully get better now that I've purchased Drake's FINAL can of formula!

CVS - spent $1.77, saved $37.67!
(Of course...my free Excedrin coupon showed up after I went to CVS this week!)Walgreens - spent $2.38, saved $18.38!
Target - spent $3.46, saved $21.14!Meijer - spent $35.89, saved $42.14 (Dog food not pictured)!

Sams Club - spent $20.18!

Totals - spent $63.68, saved $119.33!

The Great Grocery Challenge - Week 9

Target - spent $3.28, saved $15.30 (but, it was on a gift card!)Walgreens - spent $5.08, saved $25.86

Meijer - spent $24.10, saved $26.34
Sam's - spent $20.18

Totals for this week: spent $49.36, saved $70.78!

This is my first week being under my goal! Pretty exciting, huh? Hopefully this is the start of a great trend. :-)

The Great Grocery Challenge - Week 7

This week turned out pretty good - probably a good thing after last week!

Target: spent $1.46, saved $3.60 (gift card, though)
CVS: spent $9.35, saved $38.34
Meijer: spent $11.12, saved $29.22
Walgreens: spent $8.07, saved $39.70

Sam's Club: spent $20.16 (formula...just 2 more months!)
Soap.com: spent $4.05 (from the Groupon I bought a while back, paid $10 then and got $24.05 worth of products)

Totals: spent $52.75, saved $112.32

Savings of 69%

I've still got quite a stockpile, but I am noticing some things we are running out of that I'm not finding great deals for. To really save, you have to be willing to try other brands on some things and there are just some things I'm not willing to switch on....like ketchup. Personally, I like Heinz. Have you ever seen a coupon for Heinz? I don't think I have. And, now that Drake is almost exclusively on table food, I've got to pick up more fruits which, let's face it, aren't cheap. This could make things interesting but hopefully I'll be able to stick to my goal (or at least come close).

The Great Grocery Challenge - Week 5

This week started off GREAT! I just a few dollars over my $50/week goal and then the dog needed food. :-) It's still better than I was doing before couponing, but not where I want to be. I'm sure that this week is going to go over, too, since we have Thanksgiving and all the Black Friday deals.

On a positive note, I have managed to get our local paper delivered for 13 weeks...for FREE!! We used to subscribe a couple years ago but quit getting it because we weren't really reading it except the ads on Sunday. Not too long ago, we got something to start getting it once a week and then we got the option to get 13 weeks for free! Who would pass that up?

CVS: spent - $1.42, saved $42.45!!

Sam's Club: spent $31.44

Walgreens: spent $2.76, saved $33.56!!

Target: spent $5.71, saved $14.93!

Meijer: spent $13.05, saved $36.89! 2nd trip - spent $31.63, saved $0.67. :-(

My totals were: $86.01, saved $128.50!

I also thought it would be kind of fun to see what the past 4weeks (I didn't document our savings on Week 1.) have done to our household expenses:

Spent:
Week 2 - $86.24
Week 3 - $87.22
Week 4 - $59.26
Week 5 - $86.01

Saved:
Week 2 - $63.26
Week 3 - $131.63
Week 4 - $82.72
Week 5 - $128.50

Totals:
Spent - $318.73, Saved - $406.11!

Not too bad! Not only am I saving my family a TON of money (remember, I was spending about $100 each week), but we have more food in our house than we have EVER had. And, I'm donating more to our church's food pantry. All this work is worth it!