After
nearly two weeks without grocery shopping I headed into Albertsons to take
advantage of some really good sales items.
This is what I got:
Four boxes of
cereal on sale - 3 for $1.88 each less a 50¢ coupon made the final priced $1.38
and a box of Captain Crunch on sale
for $1.99 just because I wanted it. J
4 cans of soup -
2/$1
4 cans of green
beans and 2 cans of corn - 49¢ each
6 cans of
spaghetti sauce - 77¢ each
6 boxes of
breakfast sausage links - 77¢ each
2 cartons of
fruit punch - $1 each
2 cartons of eggs
- 89¢ each
I
also picked up a package of lean ground beef on markdown for $2.29 and a pot
roast on sale for $9.00. The bagels were
in the markdown bin at the bakery for 99¢.
On
my birthday I found a rug at Fred Meyer that would be perfect in our living
room. I almost bought it for $129.00 but
my gut told me to wait for it to go on sale.
I am so happy that I waited because I was able to buy it on sale last
week and save a whopping $40! It looks
great.
We
veered from our menu plan quite a bit. Instead
of the meatloaf I had originally planned for our Sunday dinner I made the pot
roast I got on sale. I used the leftover
roast to make a batch of Bolognese and invited a friend over for supper. Then I saved the last of the roast to make some
beef barley soup.
Thursday
we made a pizza and used up quite a few leftover items in the fridge. We had leftover cheese, mushrooms, pepperoni,
bell pepper, diced onion and diced ham.
Even the dough was leftover as I had made breadsticks to go with the
Bolegnese using half the recipe of dough.
It was an awesome pizza and it sure didn't taste like it was made of
leftovers.
My
slow cooker was looking pretty dingy so I put 2 Tbs. of bleach in it and filled
it up with hot water. After letting it
soak for about 20 minutes it looked good as new. Before I dumped it out I used some of the
water to clean a tea stain out of the bottom of one of my white coffee cups.
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I
went to the movies on "Tightwad Tuesday" for only $5 a ticket. I used a gift card I got for Christmas last
year to pay for my ticket and saw Dracula
Untold. Loved it!
A
couple of weeks ago I unpacked my son's old Sega Genesis game and set it up for
the girls to use on our old TV set. They
were able to determine one of the controllers wasn't working anymore. I found a set of replacement controllers on
eBay for $6.88 with free shipping. They
arrived this week and work perfectly.
The girls are in hog heaven.
Thursday
after work I went to ShopKo to exchange a pair of my daughter's jeans and pick
up some new mini blinds that were on sale.
I was able to get two new blinds for $7.19 each. I also had a $5 store coupon to use on my
purchase.
While
I was there I happened upon four packages of pudding cups on a clearance shelf
for 50¢ each. These will be great for
the kid's lunches.
When
I left the store I didn't make it to my vehicle and I knew I was heading back
inside to make another purchase. I
bought this adorable ceramic jack-o-lantern for our front porch. It was on sale for $19.99 and I had a $10
store coupon ShopKo had given me for my birthday so I just had to use it. Now I have a
jack-o-lantern on the porch the squirrels can't eat and make a mess all over
the place.
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Not
so thrifty, but necessary, was to purchase a book of stamps at the post
office. Since I was there I picked up a
book of Christmas stamps to. I like to
use those after Halloween to send mail as well as my Christmas cards. I will be paying myself back for the stamps I
use for cards out of the Christmas Budget.
One
of the managers at work gave me some Friendship Bread starter. The last starter I had going for 11
years. I let it go when we moved so I am
extra excited to get it going again. We
loooooove Friendship Bread.
I
watched a cooking show on PBS online for free.
Now I am anxious to try making Artisan Bread. I've heard it is delicious and dead easy.
We
watched Castle and The Goldberg's on our Roku.
I
baked four loaves of whole wheat bread and my oldest made a batch of chocolate
chip cookies.
I
went through all of my partially used labels and used them up to make return
address labels and all the mailing labels I will need for Christmas.
I
also burned three music CDs to give as gifts.
I already had blank discs, cases and CD labels in my office supplies
making this a no cost project.
How
was your thrifty week? Any great
bargains?
You are such an inspiration.
ReplyDeleteWe have a resident squirrel. He never gets our pumpkins. We used to leave out nuts for him but the stinker has been trying to chew his way into the house in several places.
I've never had one want to get in the house before. What a stinker!
DeleteSuper-good deals! Way to go! I like the Everyday Essential brand items- the regular grocery store that I go to (not the outlet) carries that as their 'generic brand' items and I find that I get that brand more than any of the higher name brand products. You had a really thrifty week! BTW, that pizza looks soooooo good! :)
ReplyDeleteThat pizza was soooooo good. I just love my jack-o-lantern too. I had a fun week.
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