Food Shopping On The Cheap!

HUGE Shoprite Trip tonight!

Total Cost: $100.61

Savings of: $88.80 with coupons & sales!!

Food Shopping On The Cheap!

Shoprite Trip!

Total Cost: $66.51

Savings of: $77.81 with coupons & sales!!

Food Shopping On The Cheap!

Stop & Shop Trip!

Total Cost: FREE!!!

(Side note: My calculations figured this trip would have costed me about $4...but it rang up $7.83. I looked at the receipt before leaving and noticed they didn't take off the BOGO bread. Customer service refunded me not only for my BOGO but also for the other loaf as well for their mistake! I actually made money off this trip! Guess it pays to check your receipt and know how much everything is suppose to be with the sale! Woohoo!)

Food Shopping On The Cheap!

I just shopped for Memorial Day wknd items and everyday items....my cart was overflowing! I literally spent 2 nights working on getting my list & coupons together because it was so much stuff...and it paid off! This crappy photo doesn't even do it justice. :)

Shoprite Trip!

Total Cost: $65.25

Savings of: $66.76 with coupons & sales!!

Food Shopping On The Cheap!

Shoprite Trip!

Total Cost: $45.22

Savings of: $52.22 with coupons & sales!!

Whole Foods Trip!

Total Cost: $14.68

Savings of: $8.00 in coupons!

Food Shopping On The Cheap!

Total Cost: $18.83!!!

Savings of: $36.60!

The Return of Food Shopping on the Cheap

I've fallen off the coupon wagon lately but after spending $75 on 3 little ole' bags of groceries today...I'm hoppin back on! Now, if only I can remember to buy the paper every Sunday...

Saw this blog post today that may help you get started as well...

Saving Cents With Sense post

I'll have to tune into Extreme Couponing later for motvation :)

Food Shopping on the Cheap - Take 3

Once again, this was difficult since I was buying a lot of holiday items....but I still had a decent amount of coupons and made out ok. Better than no savings at all :-)

Hopefully come January, I can resume spending a lot less.

Food Shopping on the Cheap - Take 2

I didn't have high hopes for this week since I had to buy a lot of Turkey Day items and purchased a lot more than usual...but I still managed to do awesome, and I even spent enough to go back for a free turkey :-)

Food Shopping on the Cheap - Take 1

This is my first post that isn't a recipe my friends...But I thought I'd share that I have started to take control of my food shopping and become a coupon clipper and a sales stalker. I was getting tired of spending $150 - $200 at the dang food store all the time, and still feeling like I had nothing to make. I thought it would be interesting, not only for others to check out my savings, but also for myself to see how I do each week.

Thanks to the help of many many many websites and the asbury park press inserts, I have started to match sales with coupons and only stock up on items that are only on sale. It took way more time that I had hoped, between clipping the Sunday paper's coupons, searching and cutting coupons online, and looking thru Ad's. Not to mention the time it takes in the actual food store looking at my list and coupons and matching up the correct sale items.

It wasn't easy, and it took up a lot of my time...but this week I only spent $65 on 41 items.

Here's to Week One.