Paying attention to the sales and then matching them up with coupons each week has really been saving us money. It has cut our weekly grocery expense about 60 percent so far. This week, we unintentionally cut it down more by having to skip the grocery shopping this week. Well, that isn’t completely true. I did send my husband out for a couple of things, while I got the little kids bathed, one after the other.
As I do normally, I went thought the sales and made my list of items, noting which coupons I needed to cut (and where) and which coupons needed to be printed online. I had to admit that for my particular store, the deals were slim. Still, there were a few good ones. I definitely needed to use up a $1 off chicken coupon, and I wanted to combine it with my rain check for chicken breasts at $1 a pound.
But life gets in the way. It wasn’t until Saturday night, the last night of that weekly sale that I decided to give up any pretense that I was actually going to make it to the store, so out my husband went for that chicken plus some milk.
He called me a few minutes later. The chicken wasn’t available. I asked him to check on the roasters. They were at buy one get one and a reduced cost per pound. I was going to pass originally, because we have been chickened-out lately. But I also wanted to use that coupon. The roasters were gone as well, but the store was substituting organic roasters for the sale deal. He picked up two whole roasters and the milk. Our total bill for this week was under $25.
“That buy one get one is a good deal,” my husband said, when he realized that his addition of a couple of non-sale pears to the order doubled the actual cost of the groceries. Sigh. I should have told him about the BOGO strawberries, but at least he didn’t come home with Devil Dogs. Those things have a tendency to leap into the cart.
How was your grocery shopping week?
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