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Kroger deals for the week of 5/6/09-5/12/09

May 6, 2009 by


Here are the deals that I saw in my weekly ad. Your ad may be different, so be sure to check it. Also, my store doubles up to three “like” coupons up to a face value of .50 and triples up to three “like” coupons up to a face value of .39.

There are other items on sale this week, but these are the biggies that I saw:
Barilla Pasta – $1.19
Use .75/1 printable from Coupons.com if you printed it before it was gone

Campbell’s Condensed Soup – 10/$10

.30/3 Campbell’s Cooking Soups, Any – 03-29-09 SS
Get them for $.70 each if your store triples and you buy three!

$1/2 Campbell’s cooking soups printable here
It’s like getting them for $.50 each if your store doubles and you buy 2!

Daisy Sour Cream – $1.99
.50/1 Daisy Brand Sour Cream, Any, Not Valid In Colorado – 04-05-09 SS

Get it for $.99 if your store doubles coupons

Duncan Hines frosting or cake mix – 4/$5
Healthy Choice or Marie Callendar’s Dinners – $1.88/each

$1/1 Healthy Choice All Natural Entree or Marie Callendar’s Pasta Al Dente printable here
Get them for $.88 each with the coupon!

$1/2 Healthy Choice printable here
Get them for $1.38/each when you buy two!

Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes, Mini Wheats, or Raisin Bran – $1.99
Use $1/1 printables from Coupons.com (see the link on the right sidebar)

It’s like getting them for $.99 each!

Springdale milk – $1.99/each

Yoplait Yogurt – 10/$5
.40/6 Yoplait Yogurt Cups (original, light, thick & creamy, or whips!) or Original or Light Smoothie, any – 3-22-09 SS insert
Get them for .37 each if your store doubles and you buy 6

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My $40 weekly grocery budget shopping trip

March 29, 2009 by

Between being out of town, being sick, and having sick kids, I have not been good about posting my weekly grocery trip pictures. This week, I actually had to talk myself into going to the grocery store. There wasn’t anything I really “needed” but I finally convinced myself to go out last night knowing that this would be a hectic week with no time for grocery trips.

When I got to Randalls, I decided to just peek in the water aisle and saw that the Aqua Pod water was fully stocked! I have been trying to do this deal for a couple of weeks now and every time I went to the store, the shelves were empty. I called my husband and made him get on HCW to see if people were reporting that the catalina deal was still working and people were still reporting that it is! So, I did three back to back transactions (at the self check-out).

Here’s the breakdown of my transactions:

#1: Bought 10 AquaPod waters (used $1/2 coupon and got the $5 off instantly for the Mix and Match promo….sadly, I didn’t have my card and had to use my parent’s phone # since I don’t have my phone # registered to my card, so I didn’t get my 10% off) – paid $14 OOP (received 5 $2 off OYNO catalinas)

#2: Bought 3 Digiorno pizzas, 2 Dreyers ice cream (they were BOGO free), 1 Ore Ida Steam & Mash (I normally wouldn’t buy all of this stuff without coupons, but it’s stuff we like/use, and I used the $10 in catalinas from transaction #1) – paid $15.32 OOP (received $10 Chill out at Home catalina)

#3: Bought canned pineapple, cider vinegar, 2 cans 98% FF cream of mushroom soup, 2 cans 98% FF cream of chicken soup (I used to buy the Kroger brand of these, but recently discovered that Randalls is cheaper!), Sara Lee bread, Hormel turkey, beef stew meat (I paid $1.75 for the package because it was marked down!), bananas, green peppers, carrots – used .55/1 Hormel lunch meat coupon and the $10 Chill Out at Home catalina, paid $5.21 OOP

You can find more details on the Randalls (Safeway if you have it) promotion here and here. These deals should be active through 3/31.

Not pictured: We had a coupon for a free rental at Hollywood Video, so I had my husband stop at get some grapes at Kroger when he went to get our free movie. Total OOP = $2.16

My total OOP for the week was $36.69. I plan to go buy 4 boxes of the Quaker cereal at Kroger (on sale 4/$6 through 3/31 at my stores) and use three .50/1 coupons for Quaker oatmeal squares(which will double) and one $1/1 Life Coupon, so I will pay $2 OOP for 4 boxes of cereal and still come in $1.31 under my budget for the week.

Please vote on my poll in the upper right hand corner of the blog to help me decide what to do about my $40 weekly grocery budget and my freezer swap group. I have been doing the freezer swap for the past two months. Typically, I end up spending about $45-50 out of pocket and I get 8 meals. I’m trying to decide how to figure that into my budget. Here are my choices:

*Cut my grocery budget to $30/week and use the extra $10 to pay for the freezer swap
*Skip out on grocery shopping one week and use that money to pay for the freezer swap
*Skip out on the freezer swap

Be sure to vote!

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Kroger deals for the week of 3/25-3/31

March 25, 2009 by


Here are the Kroger “deals” I saw from this week’s ad:

“DEALS”

*Coke Zero, Diet Coke, or Coca Cola Classic – 3/$12 – get 2 boxes of Ritz crackers FREE when you buy 3 12 pk, 12 oz cans of Coca Cola products (limit 2 per transaction)

*Quaker Cap’n Crunch or Life cereal – 4/$10 (save $4 instantly when you buy 4 which makes them 4/$6)
$1/2 Quaker Cap’n Crunch Cereal, Any – 01-04-09 RP
$1/1 Life Maple & Brown Sugar cereal printable here
$1/2 Quaker Life printable available on coupons.com (see the blue link on the right)

*Quaker Instant Oatmeal or Simple Harvest Oatmeal – 2/$4 (save $1 instantly when you buy 2)
$1/2 Quaker Instant Oatmeal printable here
$1/2 Quaker Oats printable also available on coupons.com (see the blue link on the right)

*Pillsbury Grands, Cinnamon Rolls, Crescent rolls, or Pizza Crust – 4/$5 (save $1 instantly when you buy 4)
.50/2 Grands biscuits printable here
.35/1 Pillsbury crescent dinner rolls printable here
.35/1 Pillsbury crescent dinner rolls printable also available on coupons.com (see blue link on the right)
*There are also LOTS of insert coupons

Other deals:
*Blue Bell ice cream – $3.99
$1/1 printable on Bluebell.com
*Bunch broccoli – $.87/each
*Fresh Express Garden salad – $.99/bag
*Kraft shredded cheese – 3/$5
*Peter Pan Peanut Butter – $1.99
.50/1 printable coupon here
*Red Seedless grapes – $.87/lb
*Springdale milk – $1.99/gallon
*Tropicana orange juice – $2.39
$1/1 Tropicana Trop50 printable here

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Kroger Mega Sale (continues through 3/17)

March 11, 2009 by


The Kroger “Mega” sale is continuing this week. Buy 10 participating items and get an instant $5 off at check-out.

I don’t have time to do coupon match ups this morning, but you can find some on HCW here.

Here are some of my Kroger Scenarios: (YMMV if your area doesn’t double or triple coupons – check your store’s policy first….my store doubles up to three “like” coupons with a face value up to .50 and triples up to three “like” coupons with a face value up to .39)

Transaction #1:
Buy 3 Sargento cheese – $1.99
Use .50/1 manufacturer’s coupon (doubles)

Buy 1 Kens salad dressing – $1.99
Use $1/1 manufacturer’s coupon

Buy 1 Quaker Quakes – $.99
Use .50/1 manufacturer’s coupon (from a home mailer), doubles

Buy 5 Monster Energy drinks – $1.49/each (my husband loves these)

Spend $6.40 OOP after $5 instant rebate

Transaction #2:
Buy Armour meatballs – $2.49
Use $1 catalina coupon

Buy Pepperidge Farm Toast – $1.99
Use $.40 manufacturer’s coupon (doubles)

Buy Ziploc bags – $2.49
Use .40 manufacturer’s coupon (doubles)

Buy Dixie Plates – $1.99

Buy Johnson baby shampoo – $2.99
Use $1 manufacturer’s coupon

Buy 2 Daisy Sour cream – $1.99

Buy 3 Monster Energy drinks – $1.49

Spend $11.80 OOP after $5 instant rebate

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My $40 weekly grocery budget shopping trip

February 16, 2009 by

If you’re just starting to read my blog, you may want to click here to read about my challenge for 2009, so you’ll get a better understanding of how this all works. My Kroger stores triple three like coupons up to .35 face value and double three like coupons up to .50 face value. My Randalls stores triple one like coupon up to .35 face value and double one like coupon up to .50 face value.

Here’s a summary of my trips for the week:

Kroger – Total OOP = $22.69 – Some of the items we purchased are not pictured here (the “cold” stuff mainly) Here’s what we got: 2 cans 98% FF cream of chicken soup, 2 cans 98%FF cream of mushroom soup, 6 boxes BC Fruit Stickerz, 20 flour tortillas, Blue Bell ice cream (1/2 gallon), 2 pounds grapes, saltines, Pace Picante sauce, Olive Oil, 2 cans enchilada sauce, 6 cans Chef Boyardee ravioli and ABCs&123s, and 1 gallon milk. The biggest budget killer in this group is the EVOO which was $4.79 for the store brand! I have a catalina for $1.50 OYNP from the Fruit Stickerz. I sent my husband on this shopping run and I think it’ll be awhile before he goes again. One of the “Daytona” items didn’t show up on the receipt. I go through this regularly when I shop because my store doesn’t mark things very well, so you have to guess which items “count” and I end up at customer service trying to work it all out.

CVS: Total OOP = $0, earned $21.97 ECB – My store starts the Sunday sale early, so I was able to get some items from both weeks all at once! You can check out my scenarios for this week here.

Target: Total OOP = $18.65 ($14.97 without the dog treats) – Here’s what I got: 2 boxes Quaker granola bars, 2 boxes Kashi breakfast bars, 2 packages Market Pantry juice (8 packs), 2 cans Progresso soup, 1 gallon whole milk, 1 package Kraft cheese sticks, 10 packages Juicy Juice (8 ct) (we will be well stocked on juice for awhile now! I paid $3.80 for all 10 boxes…the regular price without coupons would have been $22.50!), 8 containers Yoplait yogurt, 4 boxes Kelloggs Pop Tarts. The coupon match-ups are here.

Here are my updated savings totals: (if you’re new to my blog and not familiar with my savings goals, click here

Baby Emergency fund – $793.10(Goal = $1000) – added $4.49 payment from Theraflu rebate, $9 rebate from Caregivers Marketplace, $3 payment from Pinecone Research, and $11.69 payment from Associated Content
Gift savings – $132.42 (Goal = $1500)
Rolling entertainment fund – $0 (Goal = $500)

*$10 in Target gift cards thanks to Lila Guide
*$10 in Amazon gift cards thanks to Swagbucks

I haven’t had a chance yet this week to update my savings totals.

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