An Update

Its been a while since I posted, not because I haven't been couponing, but because I haven't found a lot of great deals. We have been doing pretty good with our budget, but have slipped a little and are getting back on track. Here is some of our most recent trips.

This is from Kroger from about a week ago. That is a 10 pound bag of potatoes that was $4 and we are still making meals off of that. The bell peppers were only 50 cents each so we chopped those up and added them to our nice stockpile of peppers in the freezer. Probably our best find was those Kroger tortilla chips. Chips and salsa is a favorite snack here, but tortilla chips are super expensive. However, we found these cheap generic ones that are only $1/bag, instead of $3 a bag.

This is Publix from maybe a week or so ago. The velveeta cheesy skillets were bogo $2.50 and I had 75 cents off of each coupons, making these about 50 cents each. You only need 1 box and some meat to make a dinner, so that is a great deal on dinner. Pita bread was also bogo and we got that for about 60 cents. The pringles were about $1/can after coupons and those work well for lunches. The publix brand yogurt was on sale for about 40 cents each. The croutons were about 20 cents and $1 for the cookies. The meat is beef stew meat- meat + potatoes + carrots + onions + gravy + crock pot = beef stew:)

This is Publix from today and I feel like we got our money's worth here. Probably the best deal was the potatoes- they are basically little cut up chunks of potato. They were bogo and with my awesome $1 off coupons I got them for 80 cents a bag! I probably didn't need any more gravy, but it was also bogo for $1.25 and I had one 50 cents two cans that doubled (made it 25 cents for 2 cans) and two $1 off 4 cans (made it about 35 cents a can). The cheese was also a pretty good deal, it is $3, but I had a $1 off manufacturer's coupon and $1 off Publix coupon, making it $1 for the pack. The kraft salad dressing was free with coupons. The chocolate milk was a total impulse buy, and as you can see only about half of it made it home. We paid a little over $20 for this trip.