After a week+ recovering from surgery followed by a week in Colorado on vacation that was planned before my surgery, our fridge was looking pretty bare. We are a little limited in what I can eat since I am now gallbladderless so we have been sticking to eating from our Zaycon chicken stockpile in the freezer so I mostly picked up yogurt and veggies. I also took advantage of some Ibotta deals and stocked up on paper products too.
I know that from some of our weekly shopping trips you may wonder what we eat, use to shower with, and so on. But know that we have a large health and beauty/toiletries stockpile, very full pantry and freezer. Want to see what's in our stockpiles? Check out my Stalk My Stockpile series HERE!
We are due for a big pantry cleanout/organization soon and I may even need to due some freezer organization since we are placing our fall order of forty pounds of Zaycon chicken soon too. I love that I can budget once every six months for our chicken order and then we really don't have to spend money every week on meat. I use our excess grocery money for the chicken order and it really helps us keep our budget down.
I didn't save much over 50% this week but I am totally ok with that since we were restocking the fridge on fresh items and I was able to get some of my favorite brands of paper products while still staying around $30 for the week. I only used a few coupons and a $5/$30 Winn Dixie coupon so this week's trip is an example of a great way to save buy shopping a store's sale cycles : )
Breakdown of yesterday's shopping trip:
Total retail value: $75.84
Total spent: $37.41
Total saved: $38.43
Percent saved: 53%
What I got with sale/coupon match ups:
- Six Pack of Brawny Paper Towel Big Rolls, retails for $9.25, on sale for $6.49
- Used a $1 off coupon from the 7/28 RP
- Earned a $1 Ibotta deposit
- Made them $4.49 for the package
- 2 packages of twelve count double rolls of Quilted Northern, retails for $9.25 each, on sale for $6.49 each
- Used two $1 off printable coupons
- Used two .75 cents off printable Target coupons
- Earned .75 for each package from Ibotta (one for the Ultra Plush, one for the Ultra Soft & Strong)
- Made them $3.99 for each twelve pack of double rolls
- 2 packages of Lance Crackers, retails for $3.09 a package, on sale BOGO ($1.54 each)
- Earned .50 cents from Ibotta
- Made them $1.29 a package
- 1 package of Banderita Tortillas, $2.87
- 1 bag of Potato Inspiration Potatoes, retails for $3.99, on sale for $2.99
- 2 bags of Ritz Chips, retails for $3.69 each, on sale BOGO ($1.84 each)
- Used a $1/2 peelie coupon
- Made them $1.34 each
- 2 boxes of Near East Couscous, retails for $2.29 each, on sale BOGO made them $1.14 each
- 1 two liter of Publix Seltzer Water, retails for .95 cents, on sale for .81 cents
- 2 cucumbers, retails for .85 cents each, on sale for .50 cents each
- 1 box of Fresh Attitudes Salad, retails for $3.09, on sale for $2.69
- 4 Dannon Okios Greek Yogurts, retails for $1.20 each, on sale for $1.00 each
- 4 Voskos Greek Yogurts, retails for $1.25 each, on sale for $1.00 each
- Used two .50/2 tearpad coupons
- Made them .75 cents each
- 5 bags of Publix Steam Veggies or Brown Rice, retails for $1.39-$1.59 each, on sale for $1 each
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