My new hobby is grocery shopping. I used to hate it with every fiber of my soul. Last summer, matt's aunt was talking about all the good deals she was getting at the grocery store. Well no one gets a good deal with out me. So I asked her all about it and started my own journey. Well by not spending any more than my usual $600 a month in groceries I have food coming out my eyeballs. I think we are about 2 months shy of our year supply with very little wheat and crazy food. It is all just the normal food we eat at walmart. In Just less than 1 YEAR.
I was sick last week and couldn't go to the grocery store and we still had plenty of food. I still buy lots of name brand treats, snacks, meat, produce. We are not skimping. At the smith household, we like to eat.
So I am starting a new plan. Today, I saved 87.63 in just one week. 37.55 in coupons and 50.13 in price matching at walmart. That was a very average week nothing crazy. I still spent 138.00. So my cart was overflowing with groceries.
Well I have a high every week like I just went to tijuana. I love to get a good deal. I could talk about it for the rest of the week.
So the other thing I love to do but always feel guilty about is spending money on myself. So starting today, I am putting my weekly saved money into an envelope and buying myself something AWESOME. If I save around that much each week. I will have close to 350 each month.
mineral makeup
a NICE road bike
some new shoes.
modbe swim suit.
A girl trip to hawaii to see my roomie.
6 comments:
Share the wealth! Do you have any good tips? I have started reading several money saving blogs that give tips on how to get great deals at Walgreens and CVS, but I would sure love some grocery shopping tips!
Thanks!
HELLOOOO. You can't just post something like this and then not tell us the sorce. Is it pinching your pennies? my food storage deals? or is there something EVEN BETTER??
It is 80 percent food storage deals. I was just crazy about prize matching every little thing. I also started getting the newspaper and using coupons, also coupons.com. I love that site.
Good job Melissa! My friend Melanie has a blog where she lists lots of different deals she finds. She lives there in Utah and she finds awesome grocery deals here's the link, check it out.... http://recipescraftsandsales.blogspot.com/
I like the trip to Hawaii idea! Yahoo!
I'm so proud of you! That is awesome! Trip to Hawaii sounds fun--you just got back, so it must've been good!
Way to go girl!
Here is a site that I have been using which is dirt cheap (4.95 per month) and you get the best deals form five major stores posted along with what to put in your food storage and recipes to use all the deals for the week! She also posts tips and has links to great sites for other recipes, food storage, and coupons.
www.dealstomeals.com
Visit her blogs for more information on meal planning, recipes, and tips on food storage!
www.dealstomeals.blogspot.com
www.myfoodstoragedeals.blogspot.com
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