Grocery Challenge - June

This morning my kids informed me that we needed dog food TODAY!!! Oh, yes, and they were out of toilet paper in their bathroom. I gave them a 4 pack of the stash from my bathroom and paniced when I realized we were down to 10 rolls! So, we headed into town to do some shopping and run errands. We had a $1 off winetag for fish, 4 FREE up to $4 Jimmy Dean Coupons, a .55 off lettuce coupon, $2 off Act 2 popcorn, $1 Taco Bell taco shells, a buy 2 get 1 free Langer's juice and 2 .50 off Vlassic pickle coupons. Luckily I had all 3 boys with me so we were able to use all the Jimmy Dean Sausage coupons (one per person) and bought the huge sausage rolls and just paid the "extra" over the coupon value.

This is what we got:
2 Vlassic Pickle Relish
1 8 pack Act 2 popcorn
1 big box of Tissues
18 ct. Taco shells
2 packages of hot dog buns
1 huge sandwich from the deli (we had them cut it into 4 slices and ate it in the car for lunch) $3.98
3 huge jugs of Langer's juices
1 package of Cheetos
12 bagels
1 large container of sour cream
2.25 pound of grapes
1 40 pound bag of dog food
1 big family pack of smoked sausage
2 lb bag of necterines
1 pound of imitation crab
1 cream cheese
4 pounds of oranges
2 pound of celery
24 pack of MD toilet paper

total:$51.69
saved in coupons: $23.53

Goal: $250
Spent: $93 (rounding up)
Left: $157

I'm panicking with my T.P. situation too Debbie I got these single rolls of charmin and I think they have MUCH less than half of what those double rolls have! They don't last more than half a day, sadly.

I went in today to pick up some cereal I had a raincheck for, I was hoping to get at least 10 boxes, but I got 7 and left one box on the shelf.

All in all I got;
7 boxes of Bran FLake cereal (store brand) about 17oz. size
4 boxes quaker toastables (like a poptart)
1 cantalope
1 mango

For a total of 8.26
I saved 5$ in coupons and this store doesn't even double so I'm a happy camper. Lately they have had better sale prices than Ralphs so i'm still better off without the doubling for some things.

Brings my total up to 112.59 now, oh plus 4$ I just spent on ordering 30 bean coupons(should get them all for free with the value I got) brings my total to 116.59 out of 220.

Now i need to focus on getting foods that my dh will eat!!

I am at about $165.00 so far. I had to go to the local store last night (at least we can walk to it!). I got:

Cheetos Twists 1.50
2- 1/2 gals of milk (cheaper than a whole gallon!)
1 doz eggs
8 single string cheeses
1/2 gal ice cream
4 candy bars
2 jars La victoria salsa
1 bottle Del Monte ketchup
4 Dannon yogurts
2 lb bag salad
2 lbs Parkay

Total before coupons--30.36
After--17.27!

Hi All,
Yesterday the kids and I did a little shopping while DH went to the junkyard to find parts for our van. We hit the Dollar store, Walmart and Tidymans. Between all the stores we got:
8 pound bag of cat food
3- 2 lb bags of pasta
2 -2 liter bottles of pop
4 bottles of ketchup
11 pounds of bananas
1 bag of cotton balls
1 -300 count package of q-tips
1-20 count garbage bags
1-15 count zip lock bags
1 bottle dishwashing liquid
total:$13 rounding up

Goal: $250
Spent: $106 (rounding up)
Left: $144

OK, lets see how I'm doing. Saturday I picked up

a case of diapers at Sam's
(2) pkgs of cookies
(1) box of chicken nuggets
(1) head of lettuce
(1) bag of frozen vegees
(1) bag of rice
(1) can of choc syrup
(1) bottle of strawberry syrup
(1) box of biscuit mix
(8) jars of meat sticks for dd
(1) can of cocoa
(1) bottle of dark Karo

$42.42, I only had $2.55 in coupons for this stuff.

Goal $150
Current Total $145.76

oh boy! I'm already past my goal..

I wanted to spend 220$ but I've already spent 254.29$!
(about 81$ spent in the last week and a half or so)

With that we got:

4 gallons milk
pack of jumbo diapers
2 packs wipes
PRODUCE~Mango's, watermellon, salad fixings....
MEAT~ Max pack of chicken breast, max pack of london broil, lunchmeat
BREAD~white bread for dh, 2 loaves of my bread, lenders bagels
Tic Tacs
health foods~Soy nuts, 4 grain cereal
Sliced cheese
Snack foods~pretzls,gum, salsa etc.
COKES~ at least FIVE 24 packs! That was at least 30$ right there alone!
and there was so much more as well

I'm already planning another trip to ralphs today too! Maaaan will I ever stop grocery shopping?
But hopefully if I stock up on cokes enough I can go a while without buying it next month!

Well, being on vacation with family is really helping me out on my totals this month! So far....

$51 first week
$ 70.53 yesterday

total so far..... $121.53

Wooo Hoooo!

Edited to add: OOops! forgot we had an impromptu cookout yesterday so I have to add the extra for that food....$ 38.71

new total: $160.24

still not to shabby.