Publix-fries, deli cupcakes, turkey, prego, potatoes, pie, eggs, veggies, stove top, deoderant, corn bread mix, seasonings, soap, chips, smuckers uncrustables, bread, gravy,

Total: $90.66
OOP: 48.50......was able to finish off the items needed for a $20 rebate!

Wags-paper

Total: $1.34
OOP: $1.34

Dollar Tree-aluminum pans

Total-$4.27
OOP: $4.27

Target- Steaz tea, healthy choice frozen meals, kraft cheese, I cant believe its not butter, and del monte veggies

Total- $30.87
OOP: $7.93

Walmart-veggies, copy paper, candels,dental floss, meat, milk, bagelfuls, fruit, rolls, cooking oil, and turkey injector

Total- $65.09
OOP: $41.93

CVS-saline solution, veggies, air wick, glade, personal care, elbow macaroni, seasoning, and cotton candy.

Total- $66.61
OOP: $2.21 + 8.99 ecb left

Weekly Total: $258.84
Total OOP: $106.18 +8.99 ecb left

Wow, it's already Saturday! This week did go by fast... I did a few trips to CVS and one to Kroger.

Kroger: I bought 8 packages of Nestle cookie dough, 10 pounds of potatoes, sour cream, bread, and ice cream. I've already sent the receipt in for the Real Simple $5 rebate.
Total before sales and coupons: $31.31
Total Spent: $16.70
Total Saved: $14.61 or 46%

CVS: kleenex, ragu, skippy, covergirl, suave body wash, scope, halloween candy, gold emblem candy, world's largest reeses cups (x2), mini notebooks
Total Before Sales and Coupons: $215.19
Total Spent: $7.37 ($4.11 of that was tax), all on a gift card, and I ended up with $6.52 more ECBs then I started with.
Total Saved: $207.82 or 96%


Weekly Total:
Before Sales: $246.50
Spent: $24.07
Saved: $222.43 or 90%

I just made one trip to Publix this week, but it was a good week!!!

Total before sales and coupons: 114.19
OOP: 11.59
Total savings: 102.60 or 89.8%

Wags last Saturday - finished stocking up on Kleenex; bought more First Aid supplies, makeup, cold & flu remedies. What I REALLY wanted was canned pumpkin, but I never found it in any of the Wags last week. They all said that they had gotten in several cases, but that it had been bought up immediately.

Store value - $107
OOP - $2.70
Savings - $104.30
Remaining RR - $33

Bi-Lo - My favorite trip because it was all things that I had to buy, either now or soon. I bought our twenty something lb. turkey. I also reached my .20/gal off on gasoline. Didn't bother w/the cereal deal because I've been giving cereal away left and right.

1st trip - all Green Giant frozen veggies & the big cans of Margaret. Holmes canned greens. (Yes, I have a family of kiddos who were raised to love cooked leafy greens.)
Before savings - $18.50
OOP - $3.61
Savings - $14.89

Second trip
Before savings - $74.49
OOP - $25.56
Savings - $48.93

Pre-savings Total - $92.99
Total savings - $63.82
Total OOP - $29.17

Publix- On the trip that I spent dollars I bought some things that I didn't really want, and really didn't need. They had an overstock and I bought it just to help move some of the product out. I didn't even have q's for items. Silly reason, but my way of doing a small good turn for the grocery manager, even though he'll never know.

Trip 1
Value - $37
Cost - $0
Savings $37

Trip #2
Pre-Savings - $52.77
OOP - $15.84
Savings - $36.93

Total Value - $79.77
total OOP - - $15.84
Total Savings - $63.93

Kroger - Got RC's for all the meat that I wanted from the 4 day sale. That works just as well for me because I've got such a good stock from summer sales and we can work on consuming more of that and creating more room. I bought batteries, eggs, and clearance bread, and used my OYNO's from the Krusteaz. Purchases involved several transactions

Total value - $129.38
Total OOP - $11.28
Total savings - $118.10 ~91%

Total value - $409.14
Total OOP - $58.99
Total savings - $350.15 or 86%

Additional purchases were 12 cans of veggies at Target for $2.40 and one head of celery at Aldi for .69.

Hi, Mina- Awesome job! I noticed you said you are giving away "cereal left and right....." well, I am excited to say there will now be one more outlet for that, that will serve the community, called- "The Food Boutique" serving "those who are not used to needing help (but the economy has changed their lives)." Anyway, I will leave my email, hopefully that's okay (!) but I cannot wait to tell people about it! Here it is- meredith@goodteamworks.com if you'd like to give away more cereal:)