Grocery Savings

I love saving money, love it, love it, love it especially while grocery shopping.

Today, I went to three stores and saved tons of money. At the bump and dent store, I found the following great deals:

• Bob Evans rolled sausage (1 lb package) .99
• 3 lb package kielbasa 2.99
• 2 lbs of margerine sticks .99
• 4 lbs of Ball park hot dogs 3.99
• Tyson heat and serve chicken thighs .69
• 1 lb package imitation crab meat 1.00
• 1 lb package lil smokies .99
• 1 lb package polish sausage .99
• 1 lb package Johnsonville Bedda with Chedda (cheddar sausage) .99
• 1 lb package Brats .99
• double package of premade bacon (30 slice I think) 3.99
• 250 count Sweetner (like equal) 1.75
• large cans of tomatoes, tomato puree, tomato sauce and crushed tomatoes .25
• Fruit 2 O bottles 4/1.00
• Hershey's strawberry syrup 1.49 (big bottle)
• Chicken and veggie broths .50/can
• jellies for .75
• breakfast bars 1.00
• tea bags 1.75
• pasta .40/box

These aren't all the savings but a good portion of them. I spent 82.23 including tax (dh went with on this trip).

Then I went to Giant Foods (a local grocery store) and got the following

• Betty Crocker 4 cheese mash potatoes
• Post Oreo cereal 12 oz
• Post Honey Bunches of Oats 21 oz (2 boxes)
• Post shredded wheat 20 oz
• Post Fruity Pebbles 13 oz
• Sweetner 250 ct.
• McCormicks slow cooker packet
• Ketchup 64 oz
• 3.68 lbs of cabbage
• Ball Park Franks- 2 packages
• Pillsbury Grand biscuits
• International delight coffee creamer- 2 bottles
• Milk

All for a grand total of 19.93 including tax. I had coupons for everything but the ketchup, they were doing triple coupons under .50 (limit 6) and double 1.00 coupons (limit 4) plus buy 5 boxes of Post cereal and get milk free. I even donated 1.00 to the MS walk (how could I resist when I saved so much?) My before savings total was 48.20.

After Giant, I went Dutchway (another local grocery store) and got:

• 6 bags of Kraft cheese, shredded
• 2 dozen eggs
• Baking cocoa
• 24 count cheese
• 2 loaves of bread
• 6 count steak rolls
• bread cubes
• newspaper

All for 20.92. Not as great of savings but still really good anyway.

So my grand total for the day is 124.08. Not bad since, I won't have to go for groceries for a few weeks, other than bread, eggs, milk and cheese (sliced).