Sunday Shops

Good morning, everyone!

While my family life continues being rather hellish, my grocery shopping adventures were quite tame this past weekend.

In fact, I stopped at only two stores.

First up, as usual, GiantPA, where I brought home this lot (not including kitty):

Even though the Smart Ones frozen entree deal wasn't as good at Giant as it had been last week at Target, I did it anyway because while each meal cost a little more, I had a smaller OOP amount to pay. The reason for that was at Target, I received $5 back as a gift card, but doing this deal at GiantPA got me $5 back taken right off at the register. I also had a $3/10 manufacturer's coupon. So for 10 meals, I paid $12, which isn't too shabby. Now my freezer is completely full, so I won't be buying any more frozen things for awhile. The other deals were: buy 7 Puffs (on sale for $1 each), get $3 back at checkout, so each box cost 57-cents. I had an e-coupon for a 12-pack of any Coke product, so that cost $2.33. I had another FREE coupon from the manufacturer for any 12-ct Green Mountain coffee k-cup blend, and I had an e-coupon for $1 off Hormel pepperoni that I stacked with a $1/2 sunday insert coupon that doubled.

Altogether, the receipt value of the above lot was $77.66 and my actual OOP amount was $31.66 -- a 59% savings rate.

My other stop was right next door at CVS where Diet Coke 12-packs were on sale (if you can call it that) for $2.50 each. I bought 4 for $10 and put the total on an old gift card I still have. So technically free - yay!

How did everyone else do this week? I probably won't be posting a typical Sunday shop next week since I'll be headed out of town on Sunday and back on Tuesday (IF the weather cooperates) to try and deal with the latest problems happening with my wonderful Dad -- he has dementia and there are way too many cooks with their fingers in the Dad financial pie, if you catch my drift.

Wish me luck on my trip - I will need it!