Kroger Shopping Mega Event!

I did a little Kroger shopping today.

Total $130.60
Spent $16.05
Saved $114.55



2 Oscar Mayer Fully Cooked Bacon
1 Oscar Mayer Deli Fresh Turkey
1 Oscar Mayer Deli Fresh Ham
10 Philadelphia Cream Cheese Bricks
4 Philadelphia Cream Cheese Tubs
4 Kraft Shredded Cheese
5 Kraft Brick Cheese
9 Kraft Cheese Individual Slices
2 Oscar Mayer Bologna
2 Oscar Mayer Hot Dogs
9 Mission Tortilla Shells

49 items

Kroger has a Mega Event sale going, meaning when you purchase 10 qualifying items, you receive $5 off instantly at the check-out (with your Kroger card).

My stores (lower eastern Michigan) double the $1 coupons.

Coupons used:
$1.00 off 2 Kraft Cheese
$1.00 off 2 Philadelphia Cream Cheese
$1.50 off 2 Oscar Mayer Bacon
$1.00 off Mission
(and these ones were sent in the mail by Kroger to me)
$1.00 off 2 Oscar Mayer Hot Dogs
$1.00 off 2 Oscar Mayer Bologna
$1.00 off Oscar Mayer Deli Fresh

Walmart & VG's Shopping Trips

I made a quick trip to Walmart and VG's (Spartan store) this afternoon.

At Walmart, I bought 6 packs of Kotex pantyliner pads for a total of $0.36!
I used 6 $1.00 off any Kotex pads coupons, so I just had to pay the tax.



Then I went to VG's, as they have TRIPLE coupons up to .99 this week. I got all of the above for a total of $2.68!

French's Mustard $1.45 -- .50 coupon tripled up to cost = FREE
Hunt's Catsup $1.29 -- .20 coupon tripled = $.69 each
Reach Floss $1.49 -- .50 coupon tripled up to cost = FREE
Aunt Millies Buns on sale for 3/$4 -- .35 coupon tripled = .28 each

Kroger Mega Sale!

Above is a picture of what costs $8.46.....a package of cheese at $5.29 plus a box of foil for $2.99 + 0.18 tax. Not much, huh!

Now look below..........ALL of this PLUS 6 rolls of Bounty Basic paper towels (not in the picture) cost me only $8.61 today at Kroger!!



Total $103.33
Savings $94.72
MY OOP COST $8.61 ($1.52 of this was tax alone!)

Kroger has its Mega sale going, where you buy 10 participating products and get $5 off. I had 20 items that qualified, so an automatic $10 off my bill.

Our Kroger stores here also double the $1 coupons (with the Kroger Plus card), so DOUBLE BONUS!
The hardest part is keeping track of the store's limit of only 3 like coupons per transaction and making it work with the Mega Sale items as well.

OH!!!! And here's another BONUS with this trip.....the Ziploc containers (reg. $4.29 (GASP!!)) where on sale for $2.50, PLUS part of the Mega Sale (so only $2.00 after the $5.00 off 10 qualifying items) AND even with my bad eyes (they were on the top shelf) I spotted $1.00 off this purchase PEELIE!!!! Doubled at the register, these were FREE!!!!

3 Bumble-Bee Tuna Pouches
3 J&J First Aid Guaze
6 Bounty Basic Paper Towels (not in photo)
3 Reynold's Foil
3 Haagen Dazs Single Serve ice creams
2 Tropicana Orange Juice (we needed these, as we were totally OUT, and my main reason for heading to the store in the first place!)
---Mega Sale Items below---
3 Platex Handsaver Gloves
3 Platex Disposable Gloves
6 Sargento Sliced Cheese
2 Philadelphia Cream Cheese
3 Sunny Delight Smoothies
3 Ziploc Food Storage Conatiners

My New Freezer!

It's been a crazy few weeks here, but here is the picture of my new freezer!! YEAH! :)
It came on time as scheduled, and I'm loving it!!

I've Ordered a New FREEZER!! :)

We have outgrown our freezer (see picture!), not to mention that it is older than the hills, has to be defrosted at least twice a year (what a pain!), and is probably eating us alive in electricity use!

I went yesterday and ordered a new one! YEAH! It is bigger, frost free, Energy Star, AND has alarms for temperature variations and door ajar (we lost all our freezer foods a few years ago due to the door being "ajar"!).

By waiting for a great sale, and taking advantage of additional savings with coupon codes (DH even laughed at my having coupon codes to save on a freezer!!), I was able to save $304 off my new freezer.

Now the hard part.....waiting the 2 weeks (June 3rd) for it to arrive! LOL! :)

How I Organize My Coupons

Each person will come up with the best way to organize their coupons that works best for them. Many use the binder method. I personally use a check/coupon expandable file. I've tried so many different ways, but what works best for ME is this.

Quick Kroger Trip

I did not plan on going to Kroger yesterday, but since DH was heading over there to fill the truck and gas cans up, I tagged along and ran into the store.

The Kellogg's cereals were on sale for $1.99 each and I had the $1 off one coupons printed from www.coupons.com site. Our store doubles $1 coupons, so I got the cereals for FREE! :)

The 3 J&J Buddies soaps were $0.99 each and I had a catalina coupon for $2.50 off any 3 J&J baby.

Total spent $0.65!