Meijer trip

I haven't posted any good deals lately because, well, there haven't been many. With the holidays I pretty much just let it go and didn't do much with my coupons (other than let them stack up).

Anyway, this week Meijer is having a good sale, so I went there Sunday night. Here's what I got. I'll try to remember what things I got for free and mention those....

1.55lb bananas, .59/lb
1 Frozen breadsticks
1 Chex Mix (store paid me $.10 to take this)
2 Grands Biscuits
4 boxes of Green Giant frozen veggies
1 bag Green Giant veggies (freebie)
4 bags of Rice cakes
3 containers of blueberries
1 bunch of celery
2 English Cucumbers
2 bags of spinach fettuccini
2 boxes of pizza rolls (after all those veggies who could blame me??) (almost freebie)
1.72lb grapes
1 Lemonade
1 box Special K blueberry cereal (paid $.99)
1 box blueberry Frosted Mini Wheats cereal, (paid $.99)
1 pouch Betty Crocker cookie mix (almost freebie)
1 Pillsbury cinnamon roll
1 Pillsbury Crescent Roll
1 box Betty Crocker muffin mix (almost freebie)
2 boxes Cheez-it crackers (4 years later he still obsesses over them....)
1 box Nutri Grain bars
1 Tropicana orange juice
2 bags Dole Salad mixes
1 box granola bars (paid $.50)
1 box Yogos (Owen's BEGGED for months for these... finally went on sale so I bought them... only to come home to show them to him and be met with a "I don't want those...". Grrrr)
2 Lysol Flameless candles (FREEBIES!)
1 Airwick flameless candle (FREEBIE!)

Total before discounts/sales/coupons- $117.13
Total after discounts/sales/coupons- $40.22
Total savings- $76.91

Not as good as I like it to be (I like to save at least twice as much as I spend) BUT a couple of the things I got were not needed, and weren't necessarily on the best sale. Like the yogos (does Alexis like these, mom?), lemonade (splurge for me), cheez-it crackers (but lord help us all if the boy runs out).

I also had a good trip to Kroger on Wednesday, but I threw that receipt away. Bummer. I do remember I got 3 disposable cameras. I had thought about getting a couple for Owen for our Disney trip. I thought it would be fun for him to take pictures and to see what he sees. But at $5-6 each I was hesitant. Kroger had 3 left on their manager special shelf for $1 each! Only catch is they are best if used by April of this year. We're going to Disney in April so it should be fine :) I also got a couple of the Dole salad kits (we LOVE these... such an easy dinner!). They're usually around $4 each (which I REFUSE to pay!) but some were on managers special for $.69 each! Only catch is they expire this weekend, which is fine. We already ate one and will eat the other this weekend. Spinach was the same deal, either $.69 or $.99 for a bag (can't remember). I got 1lb ground chuck for $.99 and used that for dinner Wednesday.

As you can see, I have no issues with mangers specials ;) Sometimes. I'm really picky about meat though. But for things like the salad kits- that's a HUGE reduction, and we'll eat them before they go bad so it's fine and saves us a ton of money :) A couple weeks ago our Kroger had Quaker Oats instant oatmeal on their manager special (only Apple Cinnamon, which is my favorite!). They didn't expire until sometime in 2010. I couldn't for the life of me figure out why they were on manager special. So I asked. They said that someone messed up when ordering them and ordered WAY too many. So instead of storing them they just wanted to get rid of some. Cool. I bought 6 boxes for $.50 each!

Anyway.... I think that's all for now :)