It's Thursday - which means today is the last day of week 1 of my adventure with shopping with a cash budget for groceries. I'm excited to see that I did it!
Here was my plan:
$85 of 1 my $125 budget went to weekly expenses. I broke this into five categories. Milk, Meat (deli meat for my hubs), Eggs, Produce & my hubs Monster Drinks. The remaining $40 was allocated to purchasing bulk items.
I took a look through the flyers last week and wrote down all the deals. Previously I would have gone and tried to stock up on them all. This week, I decided which ones were the most needed for us, and/or which ones were the best deals. Items that were deals that I scratched off my purchase list were Pop & Tylenol at SF, Tomatoes & Yogourt at Co-op, and Kleenex at SB's.
Here is what I did get:
2 choc bars on sale at SF for $0.50 each. (Hey, a girl needs her chocolate!)
4 Toilet Duck Toilet bowl cleaners
4 6pack of Monster (on sale at Co-op - this fell into both weekly amounts & bulk amounts).
2 Finish laundry detergents @ SP
2 Lil Ones Yogourts at SP
2 Quaker Rice Cakes
1 30 pack of Breathe Right Nasal Strips
Total savings from the receipts were $38. This doesn't take into account items I purchased at SP that are already cheaper than buying at the other grocery chains. Of that $38, $6.5 were coupons - either in-store pad coupons, or ones that were mailed to me. These were for the Lil Ones Yogourt, Finish laundry detergent & breathe right strips. We spent around $15 on fresh produce.
Heading into next week I have $14.74 carried over from this week!
Does anyone want/need diaper coupons? I have some that expire June 10th for Huggies & Lil Swimmers. Please leave me a note here if this interests you!
No comments:
Post a Comment